Former Wisconsin QB Jon Budmayr is in his third season as quarterbacks coach at his alma mater in 2020, his sixth season overall as part of the Badgers’ coaching staff.
Under Budmayr’s watch, Jack Coan put together one of the best seasons by a Wisconsin quarterback as a junior in 2019. Completing a school-record 236 passes, Coan threw for 2,727 yards — the third-highest total in UW history — and 18 touchdowns. Named honorable mention All-Big Ten, Coan ranked seventh among FBS players with his 69.6 completion percentage, a number that ranks third in school history, as does his pass efficiency rating of 151.8.
Before being promoted to quarterbacks coach, Budmayr served as a quality control assistant for two seasons and spent 2015 as a graduate assistant with UW’s quarterbacks.
In 2017, sophomore Alex Hornibrook threw for 2,644 yards and 25 touchdowns, second-most in school history. Four of his TD passes came in the Orange Bowl, earning him MVP honors in the Badgers’ 34-24 win over Miami.
Sharing the quarterback duties in 2016, senior Bart Houston and Hornibrook combined to give UW a pair of 1,000-yard passers and had the Badgers ranked fourth in the Big Ten in passing efficiency (135.9).
His first season on staff saw Budmayr assisting the second-leading passer in school history, Joel Stave, who threw for 2,687 yards as a senior and was named MVP of the Holiday Bowl for leading the Badgers past USC.
Budmayr returned to Wisconsin after spending a year as an offensive graduate assistant at Pittsburgh under head coach Paul Chryst.
Injuries derailed Budmayr’s playing career at Wisconsin after the 2010 season, when he lettered for the UW team that posted an 11-2 record and won the Big Ten title, but he went on to serve as a student assistant coach for the Badgers in 2012 and 2013.
Prior to UW, Budmayr quarterbacked Marian Central Catholic to the Illinois Class 5A title game as a sophomore and the state semifinals as a junior before missing his senior season with an injury. A three-year starter at QB, he finished his prep career with 5,172 passing yards and 38 touchdowns.
A native of Woodstock, Illinois, Budmayr earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wisconsin in 2013. He and his wife, Kaitlyn, were married in 2016. They welcomed daughter Sienna in 2020.
