"Jim Heacock" is the former defensive coordinator of the Ohio State University football team. Heacock has been a coach since 1971. He was an assistant coach for the University of Washington Washington Huskies football/Huskies from 1983–1987. As the team prepared for its bowl game in 1987 Heacock accepted a job as the head coach at NCAA Division I-AA Illinois State University. At Illinois State he employed future Ohio State University/Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer.

In 1996, Heacock joined Ohio State University football coaching staff as the defensive line coach. When head coach John Cooper (American football)/John Cooper was fired in 2001, Heacock was one of only three assistants retained by the new head coach, Jim Tressel. As of 2008, Heacock was the most senior member of the Ohio State coaching staff. Heacock was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2005. In his first year in that position, the Ohio State defense was ranked first in the nation in rush defense. The same year, the defense ranked fifth in the nation for least number of points allowed and for total defense. According to sportswriter Dennis Dodd, "Statistically, the 2007 unit was among the best finishing first nationally in scoring defense, total defense and pass defense".

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His position doesn't allow him to make the plays out in space and he's probably not as noticeable. But from our standpoint as a staff, what he does (at the line of scrimmage), he's every bit as important as anybody else on the team.

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He's a big, strong football player and he's hard to get to the ground even when you get to him. He's got a great arm [and] can find the open receiver. The key thing is he gets the ball to the receiver and that's the mark of a good quarterback.

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A lot of the guys we're playing, we recruited. We recruited Brady very hard.

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It's great to see him come through that. He's been through a lot of adversity with injuries since he has been here. He has had a great senior year, and you always want that to happen to good people who continue to work hard, and that was certainly him.

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It was my understanding that we'd be lucky to have him in the spring. He's still working on getting healthy so he can compete better. At times, he just hasn't felt comfortable enough with it.

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The nice thing about bowl practice, for young guys, is it gives them a chance to have a little bit more attention. True freshmen, when they come in É they don't get a lot of attention. The bowl practice is a chance for them to showcase what they are and what they can do.

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It'd be crazy to think that score from last year wasn't in everybody's brain.

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When he first showed up at the office, he had lost a lot of weight and was not real good looking.

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