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Q&A With jon heacock The following is a brief question-and-answer session with Purdue secondary coach Jon Heacock. Gold and Black: You were the head coach at Youngstown State for nine seasons before being Kent State���s defensive coordinator the last two years. What do you think of those experiences? Heacock: ���I was a better assistant coach and a better coordinator the last two years having been a head coach for nine. I think that���s really true when your thoughts align with the head coach you���re working for. Because you can think ahead, maybe solve some problems or possible issues before they get to it because you know the expectations. ���I���ve coached the secondary pretty much my entire life. When I was young, I coached almost all the positions, even a little offense when I was a high school coach, but I feel very fortunate I have the opportunity to coach at every level. I was a school teacher for high school and an assistant coach and we won a state championship. And that was pretty cool. And I coached at the Division III level for three years and there you just do everything. You pack the lunches, drive the vans, you collect the equipment, tape the ankles. I helped do everything.��� Gold and Black: What are your thoughts on the success at Kent State? Heacock: ���The last two years have just been incredible. Probably the two most incredible years I���ve ever watched, the transformation of those players and the process. Then, what we were able to accomplish as a staff and team. You can���t even describe it. It was incredible.��� Gold and Black: What is your style? Heacock: ���I try to pressure my guys in individual, in team and in seven-on-seven. I try to put as much pressure on them to perform, so that Saturdays become easy. I guess if there was a style that I try to do is that I want to put them in the toughest, most vulnerable situations. When I was coaching and doing scripts, I script for failure. I want it to be so tough. You want Friday mornings when we watch the tape to be miserable. If you script so hard on Thursday and plan so hard that Friday looks pretty good, then you���ve got a shot at being ready for the game. And I think that���s my job. I remember a coach at Michigan was crazy on our guys. And it was, ���Well, why do you do that?��� Well, because there���s 100,000 people going to be at that game and they���re going to be a lot harder on him than I am.��� Gold and Black: When you were hired, you came to Purdue as the cornerbacks coach, but as it turns out, you���ll handle the entire secondary. Thoughts? Heacock: ���The advantage of it is one voice. If you were to say, ���What���s the advantage of coaching all four guys?��� It���s one voice, the adjustments, the communication. It���s not, ���Well, the safeties coach said this and you said that.��� No, it���s one voice and one voice is always good, so there���s no grey area.��� ��� Kyle Charters Tom Campbell Punter Cody Webster says Purdue���s offseason workouts have been more difficult this season under first-year coach Darrell Hazell than they���ve been in past years. 2016, and travel to Mackay Stadium in Reno for a game Aug. 31, 2019. Purdue now has three non-conference games scheduled for 2016. Brian Polian, the son of former NFL executive Bill Polian, is in his first season as head coach at Nevada. TWIN CITY DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP RAM 650 Sagamore Parkway South Lafayette, IN 47905 See the 2013 Jeep Wrangler! 800-562-4581 twincitysuperstore.com GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 23��� ������ 22