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":865384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,65592,2787],"class_list":{"0":"post-865383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-wisconsin-athletics","12":"tag-wisconsin-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116396301370073386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}