Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Defensive coordinator, safeties coach |
Team | Iowa State |
Conference | Big 12 |
Annual salary | $300,000 |
Biographical details | |
Born | October 11, 1960 |
Playing career | |
1982 | Muskingum |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1983 | Toledo (GA) |
1984 | Steubenville HS (OH) (assistant) |
1985–1987 | West Liberty (DC/DL/DB) |
1988–1989 | Michigan (GA) |
1990 | Army (assistant) |
1991 | Youngstown State (DB) |
1992–1996 | Youngstown State (DC/DB) |
1997–1999 | Indiana (DC) |
2000 | Youngstown State (DC) |
2001–2009 | Youngstown State |
2010–2012 | Kent State (DC/CB) |
2013 | Purdue (DB) |
2014–2015 | Toledo (AHC/DC/S) |
2016–present | Iowa State (DC/S) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 60–44 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 Gateway (2005–2006) |
Jon Heacock (born October 11, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Iowa State University. Heacock served as the head football coach at Youngstown State University from 2001 to 2009, compiling a record a record of 60–44. He was an assistant coach at Youngstown State for seven seasons (1991–1996, 2000) under Jim Tressel.
A native of Beloit, Ohio, Heacock graduated from West Branch High School in 1979 and earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Muskingum College in 1983. He participated in both football and track and field at Muskingum.
After graduating from Muskingum in 1983, Heacock accepted a position as a graduate assistant defensive line coach at the University of Toledo. In 1984, he served on the football coaching staff at Steubenville High School, where he helped the team to an Ohio Division II State Championship. Heacock then served as the defensive coordinator, defensive line coach, and secondary coach at West Liberty University from 1985 to 1987. The next two seasons, he was a graduate assistant on Bo Schembechler's staff at the University of Michigan, where he worked with both the defensive backs and special teams during a stretch in which Michigan won two Big Ten Conference titles and the 1989 Rose Bowl. Heacock then moved on as an assistant coach at the United States Military Academy before joining the coaching staff at Youngstown State in 1991.