Jim Leonhard, preparing for his fourth game as Wisconsin’s interim head football coach, didn’t duck the questions.
Have you concluded you are capable of handling the responsibilities that come with leading the program as full-time head coach and do you want the job?
Or, do you still have questions you need answered?
“I know I’m capable,” Leonhard, who turned 40 last week, said Monday during his weekly news conference. “It’s been really exciting for me to see the response of the coaches, of the players. It has been exciting to see certain little changes you’ve made and the buy-in of the messaging and the play on the field.