Chuck Lillie is in his first year as the general manager for the Mountaineer football program.
He came to West Virginia from Oklahoma, where he was the assistant general manager since April 2024. While there, he worked with current WVU assistant head coach/defensive coordinator Zac Alley and nickels/sams coach Henry Weinreich.
At WVU, Lillie is the lead negotiator on all player acquisition deals, and oversees the scouting and recruiting operation and roster management process, including high school, junior college and portal recruitment and player retainment.
At OU, Lillie oversaw roster management in conjunction with the head coach, overseeing the recruiting and scouting process for all players. He assisted the general manager and communicated with player representatives in negotiating NIL deals.
Lillie went to Oklahoma after spending the previous four seasons at Kansas State as the director of scouting. He was responsible for evaluation of prospects’ film, hosting prospects and assisting in the recruiting operation efforts of the staff.
Prior to Kansas State, Lillie spent five years on Clemson’s support staff, working four years in the program’s recruiting department and one season as a defensive graduate student intern.
During his time as a defensive graduate assistant, Lillie assisted coaches with day-to-day preparations for practices, diagramed opponents’ offensive plays, developed weekly opponent gameplans and assisted in the weekly breakdowns of Clemson’s upcoming opponents.
Lillie also was a pro scouting intern with the New York Giants during the 2019 NFL preseason before returning to Clemson as a playoff analyst during that season, when the program finished as national runnerup.
A native of Baltimore, Lillie graduated from Clemson with a bachelor’s degree in sports communications in 2017 and master’s degree in athletic leadership in 2020.
