BYU's entire offense went through him because his vision and timing are so amazing. Imagine him through alley-Oops to multiple 5* star athletes like he did to Waterman and Saunders. Any coach would love to have Khalifa on their team, IMO, especially since he can also hit the 3 at a pretty solid clip. Khalifa absolutely makes a defensive planner have fits, just ask every (really good team with 4/5* players) in the B12, who basically resorted to mauling him, because they couldn't outplay him.
People need to stop devaluing our players like the only thing that matters is a 4 or 5* by their name. Frankly, a lot of those guys flame out also. And devaluing our players doesn't exactly encourage them to rescind from the transfer portal, and come back to BYU.