Staff Directory

Joe Discher

Title:
Director of Player Personnel
Email:
Phone:
3682

Joe Discher enters his third season as Troy's Director of Player Personnel. He arrived at Troy in December of 2023 as the Recruiting Graduate Assistant and was promoted to Director of Player Personnel in July of 2024.

Following his second season, Troy signed the top-ranked recruiting class in program history per On3. The signing class ranked as the No. 61 class in the country, first in the Sun Belt and second only to Boise State in the Group of Five; the class ranked ahead of the likes of Penn State, Wisconsin and Colorado.

The Trojans landed the Sun Belt's top recruiting class and the seventh-ranked class among all Group of Five schools, per On3, during the Dec. 2024 signing period, with an average ranking of 83.54.

Before joining Troy, Discher spent time at Cincinnati, where he attended college and served as a recruiting assistant for five seasons. In his time at Cincinnati, Discher helped construct the roster that made the College Football Playoffs in 2021 as the only Group of Five team to ever make the Playoff. He also helped the program transition to the Power 5 in 2023, where Cincinnati joined the Big 12.

Discher, a Dayton, Ohio, native, is the son of Skip and Laura Discher. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Sports Administration from Cincinnati in 2023.