The Wisconsin Badgers officially announced the hiring of Justin Wilcox as the Wisconsin football team’s new defensive coordinator on Thursday. Wilcox will be called on to replace Dave Aranda, who guided the Badgers’ defense for three seasons before he left for the same position at LSU on New Year’s Day.
Wilcox has some big shoes to fill in his first season in Madison. In his three years with Wisconsin, Aranda raised the bar of the Badgers’ defense. Introducing his 3-4 scheme to Wisconsin football in 2013, Aranda was in charge of a defense that allowed just 15.