Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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where have you gone? After a 12-year NFL career, Heck moved into coaching and spent nine seasons as the Jacksonville Jaguars' offensive line coach prior to being hired by Kansas City in mid-January. photo courtesy jacksonville jaguars needed to go as a program, what we needed to do and how we were going to have the way that season ended fuel us for the next year. I think that was more of the moment for me." The following year, when Heck was moved to left tackle, Notre Dame averaged 250 yards rushing per game and allowed only 12.3 points per contest. Rice, a junior in 1988, rushed for 700 yards and nine touchdowns and threw for 1,176 yards and eight scores for an Irish squad that averaged 32.6 points per game en route to a 12-0 season and a national championship after the top-ranked Irish topped No. 3 West Virginia 34-21 in the Fiesta Bowl. "Looking back on it, I was probably delusional thinking I could ever be a major college tight end," Heck said. "I played the position at a school [W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Va.] that ran the football, and then of course under Coach Holtz ran the option. Personally, I probably would have been better served moving to the offensive line right from the get-go. "I was glad that I finally got the opportunity to do that, not that I had ever even thought about it. It was probably going into my junior year that Coach Holtz had said, 'You're getting too slow; you're too big; we're going to move you to tackle.'