Jon Heacock
Jon Heacock
Jon Heacockis a former American football player and the currently coaching safeties and Defensive Coordinator at Iowa State. He was the head coach at the Youngstown State University from 2001 to 2009, where he compiled a record of 60–44. Heacock served as an assistant coach at Youngstown State for seven seasonsunder Jim Tressel before Tressel left to assume the head coaching position at Ohio State University...
problems special team
I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.
believe coaching defense football large nervous passing run time win
I've been coaching defense a long time and I still believe you have to be able to run the football to win and win consistently. I don't get as nervous about large passing numbers.
playing
They know where they are coming. They know what they are playing for.
knows offense physical
It's just the physical part he will need to learn, he knows the offense as well as anyone.
change gotten practices since
I don't think that we've ever gotten in all 29 practices since I've been here, but even with that change we'll still have 28 practices in before the opener.
along farther football kinds older plans plays schemes team understand
For the most part, when you're an older football team I think you are already farther along as far as in preparation and schemes and plans and plays and defenses and those kinds of things. They understand what is expected.