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OSU's Heacock earns best assistant award
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
From staff and wire reports
Jim Heacock never has his name thrown out there as a hot candidate for head coaching vacancies. But Tuesday, the Ohio State defensive coordinator was named the best assistant coach in college football.
The 12-year
OSU assistant won the Broyles Award, an honor voted on by nine former college head coaches, including its namesake, Arkansas's Frank Broyles.
The award was established in 1996 and Heacock, 59, is the first Ohio State winner and the second from the Big Ten, joining former Michigan defensive coordinator Jim Herrmann, the 1997 winner. Heacock was hired by John Cooper in 1996 and was one of three assistants retained by Jim Tressel.
OSU's defensive line coach for nine years, he became the defensive coordinator in 2005.
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