It was announced in the Wisconsin State Journal that Wisconsin has given their returning assistant coaches a pay increase going into the 2018 season. This should be warming news for fans regarding one specific assistant coach, Jim Leonhard. For the first time in three years Wisconsin isn’t hiring a new defensive coordinator. The pay increase is surely a large part of that.
After 2015 Dave Aranda left for the same position at LSU and after 2016 Justin Wilcox left for the head coaching job at Cal. There were rumors that Leonhard was a candidate for the defensive coordinator spot at Florida State, but he’ll be returning for a second season at his alma mater.