Was thinking about how many former ND coaching staff members are now on Ohio State's staff and finally decided to look at Harry Hiestand's resume since many people says he's as good as Warinner. This guy's resume is amazing and if Warinner were to move on after this upcoming season, I hope Ohio State can steal another coach from Notre Dame, Harry Hiestand. Could also help with flipping Tommy Kraemer.
Hiestand is a 31-year coaching veteran who has directed the offensive lines at football programs in the Southeastern Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference and National Football League for the past 20 seasons. Heistand has coached offensive line for 25 consecutive seasons.
Worked with the offensive line as a graduate assistant at Pac-10 champion USC in 1987.
Coached the offensive line at Cincinnati from 1989-93. In 1992, he added the title of run game coordinator and the duties of offensive coordinator in 1993 when the Bearcats won eight games, the most in 17 seasons.
In his three seasons at Missouri, he helped the Tigers average 184.1 rushing yards per game, and four of his offensive linemen received all-Big 12 honors in 1996 (the first year of that conference's existence). Coached the offensive line at Missouri from 1994-96 and in his final season with the Tigers helped them average 250.7 rushing yards per game, the ninth-best rushing average in the NCAA in 1996.
Hiestand had six offensive linemen drafted during his eight seasons at Illinois. During his tenure at Illinois, Hiestand tutored 12 all-Big Ten selections on the offensive line, and every senior starting offensive lineman in his first seven years with the Illini signed with an NFL team. Worked with the offensive line at Illinois from 1997-2004 and held the title of assistant head coach for the final five seasons in Champaign.
Kreutz was named first-team All-Pro in 2006 and became the first Bears' offensive lineman to receive that honor in 17 years. Two of Hiestand's players made the Pro Bowl while in Chicago. Center Olin Kreutz was selected in 2005 and 2006--and guard Ruben Brown earned the honor following the 2006 campaign. Thomas Jones gained 1,335 rushing yards in 2005 and 1,210 yards in 2006, while Matt Forte totaled 1,238 yards on the ground in 2008. Jones and Forte joined an exclusive list of Bears' running backs to ever gain at least 1,200 rushing yards in a season: Neal Anderson, Walter Payton and Gale Sayers. His offensive line helped Bears' running backs eclipse 1,200 rushing yards three times in five seasons.
In his first season with the Volunteers in 2010, only one player in his group had starting experience and that amounted to only three career starts. Three true freshmen started on the 2010 offensive line that helped running back Tauren Poole tie for the SEC lead with six 100-yard rushing games. He recorded just the 16th 1,000-yard rushing season in school history with 1,034 yards. Tennessee was one of only seven schools in the NCAA FBS that did not start a senior on the offensive line in any game during the 2011 season. They allowed only 18 sacks while attempting 400 passes, only Alabama allowed fewer sacks.
Only two offensive lines from a Bowl Championship Series automatically-qualifying conference, including Notre Dame, could lay claim to averaging at least 200 yards on the ground, 200 yards in the air and yielding 16 sacks or less in the '12 regular season. Notre Dame averaged 4.9 yards per rush in 2012 - the highest per carry average for the Irish since 1996 (5.2). Notre Dame ran for at least 200 yards seven times in '12, including six of the last nine contests. The Irish had not posted more 200+ yard rushing games in a single season since 1996. Coached an offensive line in 2012 that nearly helped the Irish average over 200 yards per game in both rushing and passing, which had previously happened only twice in school history (1977, 1970).
Tennessee sent four offensive lineman to the combine - all of which were tutored under Heistand during his time with the Volunteers. In all, Hiestand mentored six of the 50 offensive line participants at this year's event. Two of his Notre Dame pupils, Zack Martin and Chris Watt, participated in the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine.
Critical in the development of first-year starters center Nick Martin (missed last two games of '13 season), center Matt Hegarty, guard Steve Elmer, tackle Ronnie Stanley and guard Conor Hanratty. Notre Dame finished season with four first-year starting lineman. No team in the nation allowed fewer sacks and attempted more passes than Notre Dame (eight sacks on 429 pass attempts) last season. Notre Dame allowed just eight sacks in 2013 and ranked tied for second in the FBS in fewest sacks allowed.
This guy is an amazing coach. Think he's only a year or two older than Warinner.
