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Report: Wisconsin unable to lure away top Notre Dame recruiting staffer

Report: Wisconsin unable to lure away top Notre Dame recruiting staffer

Wisconsin football was unable to hire away top Notre Dame recruiting assistant Carter Auman, according to a report from FootballScoop’s John Brice.

This news comes as a follow-up to Thursday’s report that the Badgers were in talks to lure Auman away from Notre Dame and hire him as their new director of player personnel.

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The top young recruiting assistant will reportedly get promoted to assistant to the general manager on Notre Dame’s recruiting staff.

Auman is rising fast in the recruiting business after helping the Fighting Irish finish with 2023’s No. 12-ranked recruiting class and 2024’s No. 9-ranked group. He and the recruiting staff currently have the Fighting Irish ranked No. 2 in the class of 2025 cycle behind only Ohio State.

Wisconsin and head coach Luke Fickell reportedly tried to bring Auman in as the new director of player personnel while promoting current director of player personnel Max Stienecker and giving him a new title. That now appears to be off the table with Auman reportedly staying at Notre Dame.

Wisconsin’s class of 2025 currently ranks No. 12 in the nation with 20 players committed. The group is a strong follow-up to the Badgers’ No. 23-ranked class of 2024 — a group that finished with the program’s first-ever blue-chip ratio of 50%.

The Badgers’ recruiting department is in fantastic shape under Fickell, even with reportedly missing out on a potential top hire.

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Report: Wisconsin football targeting top Notre Dame staffer for new recruiting director role

Report: Wisconsin football targeting Notre Dame staffer for Director of Player Personnel

Wisconsin football is targeting Notre Dame top recruiting staffer Carter Auman to become its new director of player personnel, per multiple reports.

Auman contributed to Notre Dame’s top 15 classes in both 2023 and 2024 during his first couple of seasons with the Irish. The Fighting Irish currently boasts the nation’s No. 5 overall ranking in the 2025 cycle, again thanks to his work on the recruiting trail.

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This potential move would give Wisconsin’s current director of player personnel Max Stienecker a new title, according to BadgerExtra’s Colten Bartholomew. Stienecker came over from Cincinnati with Luke Fickell after the 2022 season and has been a big part of the program’s recruiting efforts.

Those efforts have seen Wisconsin experience a significant improvement since Fickell’s arrival. In 2024, Wisconsin finished the recruiting cycle with a top-25 class and the program’s first-ever 50% blue-chip ratio. In terms of UW’s current class of 2025, the Badgers acquired commitments from 20 players thus far, enough to vault them into Rivals’ No. 4 spot in the national rankings.

The program has recently capitalized on a busy month of official visits. The Badgers’ recent addition of defensive lineman Wilnerson Telemaque is their ninth commitment since the start of June. Four-star OT Logan Powell, four-star LB Mason Posa and four-star WR Eugene Hilton Jr. are the top players in that group.

 

Auman’s addition to Wisconsin’s staff would only bolster the Badgers’ recruiting capabilities. With the addition of four new squads to the Big Ten this fall, UW will require top-tier talent to enter its pipeline to find consistent success down the road.