In a stunning move, Wisconsin Badgers Athletic Director Chris McIntosh is stepping down from his role and is set to take on a role at the Big Ten, according to BadgerExtra\u2019s Todd Milewski.<\/p>\n
McIntosh, 49, had been in his role as Athletic Director since July 1st, 2021, working his way up after re-joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the director of business development in the Athletic Department in 2014.<\/p>\n
His major move came when he fired football head coach Paul Chryst in 2022 and elected to hire Cincinnati\u2019s Luke Fickell to a seven-year deal. So far, Fickell has gone 16-21 in three years at Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
McIntosh also hired Robin Pingeton as Wisconsin\u2019s next women\u2019s basketball coach after former head coach Marissa Moseley resigned. Pingeton went 16-18 in her first year at the helm, taking the Badgers deep on a run in the WBIT to the semifinals.<\/p>\n
McIntosh had been a former football player at Wisconsin, playing with the Badgers from 1996-99 before taking on a professional career, getting drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft. However, his pro career was cut short in 2001 due to a neck injury, and McIntosh went into the private business world before returning to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Prior to becoming Athletic Director, McIntosh was Wisconsin\u2019s deputy athletic director from 2017-21 under former director of athletics Barry Alvarez.<\/p>\n
With McIntosh\u2019s expected departure, Wisconsin\u2019s Athletic Department will have a huge task on its hands to find a replacement, which will be integral in today\u2019s world of college athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a stunning move, Wisconsin Badgers Athletic Director Chris McIntosh is stepping down from his role and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,254743,15053],"class_list":["post-580931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-wisconsin-athletics","tag-wisconsin-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}