JONESBORO — His office hasn’t changed, nor has his commute to work.
Keith Heckendorf is operating ostensibly in the same role he’s held since 2019, but in his third offseason as the offensive coordinator at Arkansas State University, the 39-year-old feels like he’s starting over again.
“I don’t feel like I’m walking back into my old job,” Heckendorf said. “I feel like I’ve taken a new job, in a new program, at a new place. There’s just a lot of familiar faces and my family didn’t have to move.”
Heckendorf — who spent the previous two seasons working under head coach Blake Anderson — was retained by new ASU Coach Butch Jones on Jan.