Isaac Ijalana joined Temple football in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as director of player engagement in February 2025. He arrived from Liberty, where he spent three seasons and advanced from assistant director of scouting to director of player relations/NFL pro liaison in 2022.
At Liberty, Ijalana worked across recruiting operations, including transfer portal and recruiting boards, on-campus recruiting, official visits, camps, and game-day events, and also assisted with the defensive line. Earlier in his career, he served as a player development assistant at Rutgers from 2020 to 2021, was a football intern at Ohio State in 2019, and coached outside linebackers at Los Angeles Valley College from 2017 to 2018. A New Brunswick, New Jersey, native, he earned a social sciences degree from Oklahoma in 2016, where he also played football.
