Leonhard seems happy staying at wisconsin. It’s a loss every year and that loss has nothing to do with the wisconsin defense and everything to do with the wisconsin offensive line. wisconsin was Linebacker U? Since when? Leonhard seems like the biggest piece of that puzzle to an outsider looking in, but I don’t really spend a lot of time thinking about wisconsin football. I’d say the “coach in waiting” candidate for Penn State is Matt Rhule, who is most likely to take the job once Franklin moves on.īoilerUp89: Wait. They’ll only be able to keep him there for so long, before someone comes and snipes him up. I’m sure Leohnard will land somewhere before he ends up coaching at Wisconsin, if that happens. It’ll never be the time to crown Wisconsin as Linebacker U., thanks and goodnight. Misdreavus79: No, it’s not time to crown Wisconsin as Linebacker U. Does your program have a coach-in-waiting, whether on staff or outside the program? What do you think happens next for Leonhard? Is he the UW coach-in-waiting, or will he be toiling away at UCLA or Texas Tech or North Carolina State before long?ģ. Is it time to crown Wisconsin as “Linebacker U”? Would you chalk up the success of the Badger defense to the LBs and Leonhard, or is there someone I’m missing?Ģ. I hope Kind of… breaks down the badger secondary tomorrow, because frankly I’m tired of talking about this shit.ġ. ILB: Jordan Turner (RS So – 6’1”, 222#, Farmington, MI) – 3*ĭoes it get old? Probably not.ILB: Tate Grass (RS Jr – 6’3”, 220#, Holmen) – walk-on.(And guess what? They almost always do it.) Might as well meet the latest crop: The down linemen plug gaps or engage, hopefully, a pair of offensive linemen, leaving a seemingly endless conga of scrappy, undersized, gym-rat, student-of-the-game, coach’s kid, first-in-the-gym-last-out linebackers to scrape with the play, beat pulling guards, or just hit the right gaps. Hell, it’s the first highlight of the 2021 Wisconsin-Purdue game:
Whether operating out of a 3-4 alignment against standard formations (read: the Big Ten) or a 2-4-5 hybrid against Purdue and everyone else, you can find clip after clip of what makes the Wisconsin Badgers defense special. Frankly it’s nauseating, and I’m tired of talking about it. Wisconsin had the third-best third-down efficiency and the fourth-best passing efficiency defense in the country, 27 fewer first downs allowed than anyone else, 14 fewer rushing yards per game than anyone else, and an eye-popping first-almost-across-the-board defensive line rate by Football Outsiders’ metrics in 2021. It’s a worthwhile comparison and, if anything, insulting to Leonhard. Leonhard–as any biography is obligated to note, from the village of Tony, population 113–is now up to almost a million in total compensation at Wisconsin, and at this point there’s seemingly nothing else out there unless a plum head coaching job opens up – almost a Brent Venables kind of situation, perhaps. If he was going to stay a defensive coordinator, Jim Leonhard wanted to stay put in Madison.
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