Wisconsin interim AD Marcus Sedberry considering all options in filling football GM role
How will the UW football program get by now that its general manager is the interim AD? Marcus Sedberry shared his thoughts Thursday April. 23.
MADISON – Two weeks ago, Marcus Sedberry spent 80-90% of his time working with the Wisconsin football program . The general manager role is that time consuming and important. Today?
His schedule is in flux. “If I'm honest, I'm getting into a rhythm of figuring out how to spend time around football,” Sedberry said Thursday April 23. “It's really important to our whole operation, so you need to have eyes on it and eyes around it.
” It’s Day 11 of Sedberry’s tenure as Wisconsin’s interim athletic director and much of that time has been spent meeting with various groups in the athletic department as he works to understand and meet the needs of a 900-employee, 23-sport operation with a $203 million operating budget . But a big decision looms. The football general manager is at the top of the food chain for the program when it comes to negotiating contracts, talking with agents and overseeing the front office operation.
How it runs as Sedberry fills the interim AD role will be one of the bigger decisions of his early tenure in the position. “There's no doubt that there's a need to identify who's going to be the GM moving forward. We plan to do that,” Sedberry said during a 30-minute interview at Camp Randall Stadium with local reporters.