St. John’s hires ex-Fordham athletic director Kull
Sep 11, 2024, 10:32 PM ET
NEW YORK CITY– St. John’s hired Fordham athletic director and native New Yorker Ed Kull on Wednesday to be its next AD.
“Ed Kull has actually demonstrated a commitment to excellence on and off the field of competitors,” St. John’s President, the Rev. Brian J. Shanley, stated. “This is a crucial hire at a critical time in the moving landscape of college athletics, and I am happy to have Ed rejoin our group.”
Kull matured in Queens, not far from St. John’s, and was a star baseball player at Stony Brook on Long Island, graduating in 2003. Not long after, he got his start in athletic administration at St. John’s.
“To state this is the honor of my professional life would be an understatement,” Kull said. “I comprehend the work that we have ahead of us will not be simple, but I wholeheartedly believe that we will devote every resource essential to bring back St. John’s to its natural place atop the collegiate athletic landscape.”
St. John’s has lacked an athletic director considering that Mike Cragg and the school mutually agreed to part methods after he spent 6 years at the Big East school.Kull was identified as one of SJU’s top candidates to end up being basketball coach Rick Pitino’s next boss weeks ago.He left college sports for numerous years, before going back to St. John’s from 2011 to 2017, consisting of a stint as vice president of sports where he dealt with revenue-generation projects for the university president.Kull had actually been at Fordham considering that April 2020. Under Kull, Fordham’s long time struggling Atlantic 10 conference guys’s basketball program found some success under the two coaches he employed, Kyle Neptune and Keith Urgo.Neptune left after one season to go back to Villanova and replace Jay Wright as head coach. Urgo led the Rams to their best season in three decades in 2022-23. Fordham’s football group made the FCS playoffs in 2022 and the Rams have actually made conference titles and NCAA berths in water polo, males’s soccer, softball and females’s tennis under Kull.