Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse football recruiting director Dave Boller has resigned to become a general manager in the upstart Alliance of American Football league, SU Athletics confirmed.

Boller will work with head coach Mike Martz to run the San Diego franchise.

"He'll be back home, he's a West Coast guy and he's never run his own show before," SU head coach Dino Babers said on Wednesday. "He's working for Mike Martz, somebody he was (working with) in 1984, so it's like he's working with one of his best friends.

"Mike Martz was somebody who I GA'd for when I was at Arizona State, so all three of us have a relationship. It's too good of a situation, financially and with everything else, for him to pass up. So we wish him the best of luck and we'll keep moving on."

Boller, who has nearly 20 years of experience evaluating players at the professional and college levels, served as director of player personnel for the Orange during his first year with the program. After Asil Mulbah left to take a job with the Buffalo Bills in May, Boller shifted to recruiting director.

It's unclear how SU will shuffle its recruiting staff, which currently includes assistant recruiting director Kramer Cook and director of player personnel Landan Salem. Salem was hired in June.

The AAF is is an eight-team league founded in March that will begin its first season next February, one week after the Super Bowl.

Stephen Bailey covers Syracuse football for The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can also be reached anytime via email.