But Wagg relishes the opportunity to manage a team, players and help the talent coach find players as well as sign them up before paving as smooth a passage as possible to bring them to the Bay.
It's something completely outside his comfort zone.
Having worked on and off in the Bay for the past 28 years for radio, Wagg served the last eight years with a Bay station although he did his time in Taranaki, Australia as well as an 18-month stint with an international cruise liner in 2004.
"The hardest thing after 16 years of breakfast radio was actually setting that alarm clock at 3.50am and going to bed at 7.50 at night - from Monday to Friday it was just a killer.
"People think, yeah, radio is a cushy job and you play a few songs but it's all the planning involved and all the story arcs you have to do and get out into the community - which , of course, I didn't mind doing because I loved it - but radio has changed."
When Wagg started in the radio industry and what it wants now from its talent pool now has mutated so much in the past 20 years that he struggles to relate to it.
He loves his revised constitution but adjusting the biological clock remains a work in progress.
"The hardest thing for me was convincing the cat and dog to know that breakfast isn't at 4 o'clock in the morning anymore.
"The first thing I did were feet on the ground, feed the animals, have a shower, take the dog for a walk, go to work," he says, managing all that between 3.50am to 4.25am before making a beeline for the radio station at 5am. He returned home around 11.30am.
If he needed tangible evidence of his life changing he got that, too.
Waggs lost 8kg since leaving radio because now he has breakfast at 6.30am, lunch around midday, dinner at 6.30pm and hits the sack before 10pm.
"The wife and I have been together for 24 years, married for 18, and in that whole time we've never woken up together from Monday to Friday unless we've been on holiday."
His start to the day was a challenge for Mandy because once the kids left home for a decade she's had the house to herself.
On his first day after radio, he got up at 6.30am and turned on the vacuum cleaner.
"All of a sudden the power went off and I thought, 'Geez, that chord hasn't been stretched that much', and there she's standing with the plug saying, 'That doesn't happen in the morning'."
When they worked together at radio, where Mandy was the manager, they saw each other but 18 months ago she left to work as executive assistant for Mackersey Development Ltd so they only saw each other for about 90 minutes a day and on weekends.
"So life has really changed."
Stepping into the Hawks management role, of course, isn't any easier for Wagg who describes it "sometimes as three steps forward and two back".
"Taylor Hawks approached me to MC and also offered me the general manager's role," he says.
A bugbear is grappling with player licences, which can hail from the Oceania, the United States, Asia.
More investigation follows on who they last played for before paying a clearance fee to enable them to represent the Hawks.
"They say to me, 'Can you get an FPL [foreign player licence] through?', so I say can you please send me a copy of what an FPL looks like?"
Frankly Waggs is straight up in disclosing he knows a lot about rugby but relatively zilch about basketball.
"All I know of basketball is the ball is round, we have five on our court at any one time in a team and three pointers are crucial."
He gives himself until the end of this year to fully grasp the intricacies of the indoor winter code.
However, when it comes to broaching the subject of sponsorship it's a slam dunk.
"It's one thing I'm good at because of radio so I know all the clients personally, I know their business and I know who to approach for sponsorship."
He emphasises the Hawks franchise run solely on private sponsorship because there's no injection from the Government.
"We basically live and breathe sponsorship and players need payment."
Setting up 54 corporate tables to cater for 280 sponsors requires logistical planning for food and drinks for people he knows in the community.
Waggs is born and bred in Napier.
"In Bethany Home in Nelson Park, would you believe it, which is now an addiction clinic. It was the birthing unit in Napier and that's where I was born on October 14, 1968," he says with a grin.
He won't MC for the Hawks but he does through his company, Waggs Voicebox, for other events. He also has started his own business in social media.
"So my company's contracted to the Hawke's Bay Basketball Foundation trading as Taylor Hawks so I'm not a direct employee of the Hawks but I am.
"I'm the head of the Hawks but they don't pay me PAYE-type thing," he says of the year-long position with a never-ending contract.
The Hawks, with Kirstin Daly-Taylor at the helm, have invested more on players this season than in the previous five years.
"We have a great line up this year," says Wagg but is keeping his fingers crossed that player transfers will go through without too many hitches.
