Khalil Ahmad stepping down as Director of HS Relations

[Orangejet]

Recruiting has become much easier for Khalil at Penn State. Thx for your short time here and hoping you taught others to improve Orange recruiting…which is no easy task.

 

[David321]

Normally I’d wish him well, but you know.. Penn State and all.

 

[Ozone!]

He is a good guy and really helped us recruit NJ!

 

[PAcuse]

Thanks for your time at Cuse but yikes on your new job...

 

[hoopsupstate]

This hurts. He brought in a lot of visitors last fall. We already can’t recruit against Penn State. Once again, we lose personnel to the Big 10 and SEC. The ACC isn’t going to be able to match the salaries of those two conferences. This is where tv revenue is going to kill the ACC.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Don't know how Dino will replace this one. Huge loss.

 

[Lukeyloo]

the scale of this staff turnover seems... excessive

 

[PAcuse]

Don't know how Dino will replace this one. Huge loss.

Seems to be the ongoing theme with folks leaving
So far so good with replacements

 

[Janner]

Usually when younger guys move on from their job to continue to pursue their career goals I would give them some simple but important advice such as, work hard, or stay focused on your dreams. In this case my advice is, don't drop the soap when your in the showers. Your very welcome Khalid

 

[hoopsupstate]

When is Wildhack scheduled to meet with the press again? There should be a lot of questions about the staff turnover and can we compete with salaries from the Big 10 and SEC? You can sugarcoat the turnover all you want, but this is not normal and is concerning. Losing Carter and Duce should also be part of the conversation.

 

[SmilinBob]

So Khalil goes from delusional Rutgers to normal SU and then a Cult PSU.

Good luck Khalil and thanks for the hard work.

 

[orangeinohio]

Penn State, gross.

It's like getting dumped by your girlfriend in favor of a guy whose medicine cabinet is full of Axe body spray and Valtrex.

 

[HSPORANGE]

When is Wildhack scheduled to meet with the press again? There should be a lot of questions about the staff turnover and can we compete with salaries from the Big 10 and SEC? You can sugarcoat the turnover all you want, but this is not normal and is concerning. Losing Carter and Duce should also be part of the conversation.

Haha relax. The guy left for PSU. He left Rutgers for SU. He will have an easier time building relationships with recruits and their coaches at PSU. Seems like a transient position until you get with the top teams or get promoted. I'd get use to players moving schools in college sports.

 

[Dinkyspond]

Don't know how Dino will replace this one. Huge loss.

everybody is replaceable

 

[AAM62]

everybody is replaceable

Its basically the Nunzio hire. We don't use TE so there's not much coaching to do there...

 

[NJCuse97]

Its basically the Nunzio hire. We don't use TE so there's not much coaching to do there...

Maybe he left because of the Nunzio hire. Could it be they were at Rutgers together and didn’t get along? I have not looked into the timeline

Edit: wild rumor monger-ing here. Not based in any fact or knowledge

 

[SuFTW]

When is Wildhack scheduled to meet with the press again? There should be a lot of questions about the staff turnover and can we compete with salaries from the Big 10 and SEC? You can sugarcoat the turnover all you want, but this is not normal and is concerning. Losing Carter and Duce should also be part of the conversation.

Sounds like you already made up your mind.
What hard hitting questions do you realistically expect our media to ask and do you think Wildhack will answer with anything other than AD speak?

 

[hoopsupstate]

Sounds like you already made up your mind.
What hard hitting questions do you realistically expect our media to ask and do you think Wildhack will answer with anything other than AD speak?

You don’t know until you ask.

 

[Cuse181]

When is Wildhack scheduled to meet with the press again? There should be a lot of questions about the staff turnover and can we compete with salaries from the Big 10 and SEC? You can sugarcoat the turnover all you want, but this is not normal and is concerning. Losing Carter and Duce should also be part of the conversation.

You already know the answer. It’s no, Syracuse cannot compete and no one with half a brain thinks they can.

 

[rocklloyd]

the scale of this staff turnover seems... excessive

And probably warranted given our annual recruiting rankings

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Penn State, gross.

 

[Jake]

Maybe he left because of the Nunzio hire. Could it be they were at Rutgers together and didn’t get along? I have not looked into the timeline

Edit: wild rumor monger-ing here. Not based in any fact or knowledge

My guess is he waited until we had a Jersey guy on board before announcing to smooth the transition.

He hinted at leaving weeks ago. Don’t think this was a job that opened up yesterday.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Edit: wild rumor monger-ing here. Not based in any fact or knowledge

Kind of the definition of “rumor”.

 

[kcsu]

He was excellent will be missed but i believe it is more important to have a great coaching staff that can recruit. He can be replace guys like Nick not so much

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Ah, Khalil.

You didn't have to associate yourself with institutionally enabled abuse of children.