Wisconsin Badgers
MADISON (WSAU-WAOW) Wisconsin Athletic Director Chris McIntosh is stepping down to take a job with the Big Ten conference.
The Wisconsin State Journal and the Sports Business Journal report that McIntosh will become the deputy commissioner for strategy at the Big Ten.
McIntosh had been in his role as athletic director since July 1, 2021. He worked his way up after re-joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the director of business development in the athletic department in 2014.
His first major move came when he fired head football coach Paul Chryst in 2022 and elected to hire Cincinnati’s Luke Fickell. So far, Fickell has gone 16-21 in 3 years at Wisconsin.
McIntosh also hired Robin Pingeton as Wisconsin’s women’s basketball coach after former head coach Marissa Moseley resigned. Pingeton went 16-18 in her first year at the helm, taking the Badgers on a deep run in the WBIT. The Badgers lost in the WBIT semifinals.
McIntosh is a former football player at Wisconsin, playing with the Badgers from 1996 to 99 before taking on a professional career. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft.
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