Zenger has been Illinois State University's athletic director since 2005. A native of Fort Hays, Kan., Zenger has deep roots in the Big 12 Conference. He was an assistant football coach and later associate athletic director at Kansas State and holds his doctorate degree from Kansas.
Apparently he used to be a high school football coach at Manhattan. 
I have a good feeling that he's a double agent.
Well, there are a lot of people in the KSU community who know him....and a lot who claim that they believe that he would not engage in the same sorts of practices as Lew Perkins. Sooooooo, I'd say that is a very, very good thing for KSU. If I were KU, I'd be less than pleased. I was delighted with the Currie hire at the time (and still am) relative to hiring Zenger (as many were hoping for). Zenger has never worked anywhere close to a "big time" athletic department.
Dr. Sheahon (pronounced SHAY-un) Zenger comes to KU after spending six years as athletic director for Illinois State.
A native of Hays, Zenger helped Illinois State capture the Missouri Valley’s All-Sports Trophy in both 2008 and 2010. ISU also has had a 65-percent growth in its scholarship fund memberships since his arrival, while the athletic department has posted record-high grade-point averages in each of the last four years.
Prior to joining ISU, Zenger was the associate athletics director for development at Kansas State from 2002-05. Before that, he spent two years as KSU’s assistant athletics director for major gifts and also spent a year with the KSU College of Business as director of development. He graduated from KSU in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in English and secondary education. He later earned his master’s in journalism and mass communication from KSU in 1992 before earning a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership from KU in 1996.
Before moving to administration, Zenger was a football coach. His first coaching gig was with Manhattan High School in 1987, and he moved on to Drake as a graduate assistant for a year before accepting a football position with KSU in 1989.
At age 23, Zenger was one of the nation’s youngest full-time football staff members, serving as assistant recruiting coordinator and director of football operations for KSU coach LHC Bill Snyder.
From 1993-95, Zenger was editor of American Football Quarterly — a magazine for football coaches. In 1996, he became recruiting coordinator for South Florida before accepting the same position with the University of Wyoming the following year.
In 1998, Zenger was promoted to assistant head coach at Wyoming.
At ISU, Zenger served on numerous NCAA committees, including the NCAA Div. I Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement.
