On today’s podcast, Host Keith Grabowski is joined by Jeremy Hawkins, the defensive line coach at Eastern Kentucky University. Prior to taking his current position at EKU, Hawkins coached at Mercer, LSU and UAB. He joins Grabowski today to talk about his journey through coaching and about defensive line play.
Show Notes:
1:13 Hawkins coaching journey
14:50 How coaching a position he wasn’t familiar with helped him grow
19:07 Hawkins experience working with Coach Orgeron
24:18 How what he learned from Coach O is helping him in recruiting
27:52 Maintaining relationships with the players once you successfully recruited them and have them on campus
33:00 Importance of having “Good-Eyes” as a defensive lineman
39:36 Coaching points for outside zone and his basic d-line techniques
48:01 Winning Edge
51:17 Coach’s Recruiting areas
