Welcome to the Syracuse athletic department’s month of madness which happens to be landing as March comes in with a new university leader.
Chancellor-elect Mike Haynie is now officially on board and fully in the midst of transitioning from Kent Syverud, and with a multitude of initial endeavors, several with time sensitive deadlines. One of which is likely reviewing the recommendations from the search committee and consultant on who should be the next leader of the athletic department to follow John Wildhack.
That decision, of course, will then have a ripple effect on who will be coaching the men’s basketball team moving forward, following a disappointing year teetering on losing record that could end as soon as next Tuesday evening in Charlotte in the ACC Tournament.
Two candidates getting a lot of discussion to be the next athletic director.
As the school zeroes in on Wildhack’s replacement, which will in turn set the course for the future direction of the basketball program’s leadership, we look at two names we are hearing have been receiving plenty of attention, one of whom we speculated about just over a week ago…