Heacock Retiring

[AuH2O]

TJ was a non head coach for a while. He was a great recruiter.

TJ is a Cyclone legend due to his HC career. He was a great recruiter and seemingly pretty good assistant, but it's hard to isolate his success as an assistant outside of recruiting. We had terrible years under McD when TJ was an assistant, we had great years with TJ as an assistant, and the program had good years during his absences as well.

Pure performance as an assistant Heacock is on a level all his own. No one else is close.

 

[Marcelason78]

And name a building after him. Legendary.

At least name the Defensive team meeting room after him.

Professor Jon Heacock “DEFENSE LIVES HERE” Meeting Room.

 

[Jeffrey Scott]

At least name the Defensive team meeting room after him.

Professor Jon Heacock “DEFENSE LIVES HERE” Meeting Room.

At the very least.

 

[MeanDean]

Hope he thinks about staying in Ames. Good man for sure.

The people in the condo two doors down are selling. Moved out today. I can get him a showing if he wants to spend some winters in the sunshine.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

At the very least.

It's a great idea and an easy start to honoring him.

 

[CyLyte2]

If you ever questioned Jon Heacock you don’t know football. Great coach. Cyclone Legend.

 

[Die4Cy]

Below is a little graph I made of ISU's Big 12 scoring offense and scoring defense rankings for the last 10 seasons. It's normalized because the number of conference teams changed over that time. 100 is the best, 0 is the worst. The X axis is year, with the number of teams in the conference in parenthesis. Taking out the first rebuilding season. Heacock had ISU at/near the top of the conference for 9 straight years. Amazing.

Congrats Coach Heacock on a very successful career!

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So you have those labeled wrong? How did ISU win as many games in the last ten years with the defense giving up that many more points every year than the offense?

 

[GetAwesome]

Greatest non-head coach in ISU history?

2nd Greatest.
Don't mess with The Mess(ingham).

 

[BCClone]

Serious, but ignorant question:

Is there any other example of ISU football really having an identity?

I was too young to remember anything about the Bruce era, and don’t remember anything about Duncan. Did Majors or Bruce teams have something in particular they hung their hats on?

Walden hung his hat on whining and losing.

 

[JM4CY]

Hell of a coach. Happy for him

Atta boy Heacock.

Also, This is better than 99% of twitter announcements. He clearly wrote that and it wasn't all weird and whitewashed. It reads a little rough in spots but it's authentic, I'll aways take that.

 

[JM4CY]

2nd Greatest.
Don't mess with The Mess(ingham).

With the greatest amount of respect and dignity:

GFY

 

[TheRun]

Greatest non-head coach in ISU history?

I mean who else would be in the running? Maybe TJ for what he was able to do recruiting wise under McDermot and Fred? Does he count now that he’s the head coach lol. Only one I think that would really be in the conversation

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Pointed out by @MacroCy over on 247, pretty telling that he didn't mention Campbell once.

 

[cyfan92]

Jon Heacock then Steve Loney, right?

 

[URBCLONE]

Echo everyone else in this thread. What an absolute legend. Created an entirely new defensive scheme and gave ISU a defensive identity. Thank you Coach! Enjoy your well deserved retirement. Thank you for the incredible closing note too! Total class act!

 

[CloniesForLife]

Pointed out by @MacroCy over on 247, pretty telling that he didn't mention Campbell once.

He worked with and for the guy for 10+ years I feel like people are reading into that a bit much

 

[GingerNinja]

He worked with and for the guy for 10+ years I feel like people are reading into that a bit much

Yeah he didn't mention anyone by name, after 43 years he probably didn't want to leave anyone out so it was easier to not include any names rather than forget someone. If he started listing off everyone he's worked with that positively affected him he would need another 20 tweets probably.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

He worked with and for the guy for 10+ years I feel like people are reading into that a bit much

I think that only makes the point more valid.

 

[Pope]

I got to know Coach Heacock a little bit shortly after he arrived in Ames. Everyone knows how great of a coach he is. I just wish everyone knew that he is an even greater human being.

Jon Heacock is the definition of humility. He led our players by example, which is the best form of leadership. We've been so incredibly blessed to have him.

 

[CLONER99]

Heacock is an absolute defensive wizard and deserves immense credit for all of our success the past 10 years. GOAT DC, and an even better person.

There should be some sort of visible recognition of his time here in the football building. I would donate toward that.