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Report: Wisconsin makes significant changes within recruiting department

Report: Wisconsin makes significant changes within recruiting department

Wisconsin football has made corresponding moves within its recruiting department after recently promoting star player personnel director Max Stienecker to general manager.

Those moves included the hire of Alabama recruiting specialist Brandon Rose as an assistant director of player personnel, the promotion of former Badgers outside linebacker Izayah Green-May to assistant director of player personnel, and the promotion of personnel assistant Jared Thompson to college scouting coordinator, all according to 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz.

Related: Where Wisconsin lands in USA TODAY Sports 2024 Big Ten football preseason poll

Wisconsin shakes up its recruiting department after the significant promotion of Stienecker, who is now the youngest general manager in the Power 4 at only 24 years of age. It also does so as the 2025 recruiting cycle grinds to a halt with the 2024 season now nearly one month away.

Rose, Green-May and Thompson will all work directly under Wisconsin director of recruiting Pat Lambert in a recruiting department that has already produced program-best results during the 2024 and 2025 cycles.

Rose makes the move to Wisconsin after working at Alabama since 2021 — nearly the entirety of that time under legendary head coach Nick Saban. He helped the Crimson Tide register the No. 2 overall class during the 2022 cycle, No. 1 in 2023, No. 2 in 2024 and No. 2 in 2025.

Green-May and Thompson, on the other hand, are internal promotions within the Badgers’ recruiting department. Green-May returned to work for the program after finishing his playing career at Northern Illinois, while Thompson has worked for the program since 2020.

They all will look to improve Wisconsin’s class of 2025 from its current standing at No. 22 in the nation.

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Wisconsin football elevates Max Stienecker to general manager

Wisconsin football elevates Max Stienecker to general manager

Wisconsin football has elevated player personnel director Max Stienecker to its general manager, according to Luke Fickell’s recent interview with WOZN’s Zach Heilprin.

After serving as UW’s player personnel director under head coach Luke Fickell in 2023, Stienecker has quickly ascended to the top of the Badgers’ front office. He is set to become the youngest general manager in the Power 4 football at only 24 years old.

Stienecker joined Wisconsin’s staff back in January of 2023 and became the youngest director of player personnel in college football history as a 22-year-old. Following the move, he cracked 247Sports’ 30 Under 30 list.

Prior to joining UW’s football program, Stienecker worked in the Cincinnati Bearcats’ recruiting department alongside future Wisconsin director of recruiting Pat Lambert.

In 2018, Stienecker kick-started his career at Cincinnati as a student assistant and became director of on-campus recruiting role before the Bearcats’ 2021 season.

Stienecker’s timeline virtually parallels Fickell’s move from Cincinatti to Madison in November 2022. The Bearcats ultimately reached the College Football Playoff in 2021 with both Fickell and Stienecker heavily involved with the organization.

Since Stienecker and Fickell arrived in Madison, the Badgers have experienced a significant uptick in recruiting outputs. In 2024 alone, Wisconsin finished the recruiting cycle with a top-25 class and the program’s first-ever 50% blue-chip ratio.

The news arrived on the same day Fickell, Hunter Wohler, Jake Chaney and Jack Nelson represented the Badgers at Lucas’ Oil Stadium for UW’s stint at the 2024 Big Ten media days.