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

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