Jon Heacock Quotes (15 Quotes)


    We learned that we still have an awful lot of work ahead of us.

    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.

    Baker is not very big, you can't hardly see him. He's very athletic, fast, tough to tackle and has great balance. They are as good as an offense as we have seen with the exception of Pitt.

    He'll be able to give us a hand at both positions until we get everybody back.

    We stopped the run against Western Illinois, which at times we have not been able to do. There were some pretty good things in that game.


    I think that's the thing. As coaches, we have to do a great job of being innovative and yet focusing on the things that really matter in football. That will be our challenge with this group in the spring.

    We'll go through the same practice we went through today without the contact.

    Louis was with us in the fall, kind of just went through the whole thing on his own. I think he's put himself or giving himself another chance, but he has, to this point, done everything we've asked him to do and will continue to do the same and ... is excited about his new opportunity.

    We feel that we have the opportunity to do what we want to do this season. I like our schedule and my job is to make sure that they all reach their potential.

    I don't question the ability of either of our kickers, but we still have some work to do in that area.

    We certainly didn't help ourselves today. We knew we had to play a near perfect game to stay in the game with them and we weren't anywhere near what we needed to be. We gave them some easy scores, which we said we couldn't afford to do and we never were able to get anything going offensively on the ground or in the air. We never had any momentum in the game.

    Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

    We haven't played any football yet as we are still in just helmets, but their attitude is great and they are taking coaching well and we look like a veteran football team.

    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.

    With Josh out and Demetrius banged up we felt that we needed another body in the backfield.


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