Jim Leonhard staying in Madison
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It’s really interesting
Either Wisconsin hired a head coach who calls a defense to just be a CEO OR Wisconsin just hired a DC to run a scheme he has never run before OR JL just took a DC Job where he doesn’t get to call the defense.
All of which would be curious choices.
Who runs a different scheme
We'll see. Sometimes they just don't work out.
It definitely is on paper
I think it’s a risky move
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I wonder if he ... just doesn't want to move.
Seems like it.
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And I was laughed at for wondering this in the Luke Fickell thread. Now I laugh. This just made the Fickell hire that much better. Without Leonhard I don’t think it’s the great hire people thought it was.
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Yep, I think PJ once spent a day as a coach somewhere until the phone rang.
I actually think it makes the hire worse
If you hire Fickell you are hiring him to run the defense
With JL hire one of those two guys isn’t running their scheme. You either just hired Fickell to be a CEO head coach or you just hired a DC who isn’t an expert in the scheme you are running
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You, and several others, wondered that.
If it helps, I didn’t laugh at you.
Yeah I didn’t laugh. I just said it makes no sense
It still doesn’t
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I also didn’t laugh… about that…
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Or they keep the defense scheme Wisconsin runs.
Correct
That was one of the options I gave
That means you just hired a Defensive guru from cincinatti to be a CEO head coach as you aren’t running the his scheme
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The irony is that the last coach I can remember following the same path as Jim Leonhard is...Luke Fickell. Served an interim term at Ohio State, didn't get the permanent job, but stayed on staff there as defensive coordinator under Urban Meyer for another 5 years. Turned out well for him in the end.
I'm sure that came up when the two men talked.
I'm sure that came up when the two men talked.
true
Huge difference being:
Tressel was an O guy being replaced by Meyer an O guy.
Fickell ran his same scheme in both eras
Fickell is a D guy replacing Chryst an O guy.
Either Fickell is running a scheme that isn’t his own or Leonhard is. Either way it’s kind of awkward
From an HR standpoint it is 100% a match to Fickell’s own career. From a football standpoint it is very different
He might more care about geographic and cultural fit for his life than he cares about schematic fit
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Loyalty is the only reason he’d stay. This probably isn’t the best move for his career.
He is fine as long as they win.
I think that not moving your family is as good of a reason as any.
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He’s fine if they lose too, as long as the defense isn’t to blame.