We owe Mike Leach

[BigOrangeTrain]

We owe Coach Leach a lot the more I research about him on my day off.

The offensive ideas that our coaches use started with him.

The calm actions of our head coach is from him.

The more I look at it the more of a mirror image of his ideas about football.

I could go into great detail, but just watch this 60 minutes interview and it will show you everything.

We owe Hal Mumme even more

 

[Vol865]

Leach has said that they looked at the 70’s and 80’s BYU offense when they popularized the air raid. And Briles was running the veer until the 90’s when he incorporated spread concepts into it. He then coached under leach at Texas tech. And it’s the briles offense that has many of the leach principles that UT runs now.
I guess to answer your question I DK where the splits came from, I would imagine that like all innovation, you start with V 1.0 and keep refining, maybe the splits weren’t day 1.

Briles does probably have influence from the Air Raid, along with Heupel, but the the Veer N Shoot route combos/reads are way different than the Air Raid.

 

[ru4real-really?]

I wish he had been hired instead of Pruitt.......

and I have posted this same statement many many times! check my stats!

 

[ru4real-really?]

Just think if we had hired him; we would be in the middle of another coaching search about now.

excuse me dock, but that's a stupid post. you should take it down!

 

[Elhanan]

Coach Hype will carry on the pirates offensive tradition. CML’s humor and lighthearted approach to the game made college football a little more fun.

He’ll be missed.

 

[LTVol]

Leach actually named it the Air-Raid not Mumme. He was constantly being asked what’s your offense called and he said it’s just offense, then one day when he was asked, he just blurted out Air-Raid and it stuck. Leach took a lot from LaVell Edwards BYU days when he was a student there and Edwards was a key influencer of Mumme so it was a melding of the two.

Leach said a guy brought an air raid siren to practice, then the siren would sound whenever they scored. Soon the name caught on.

 

[Volfan1000]

ESPN U is currently showing the Mississippi State-LSU game in Baton Rouge from 2020 and will then show the last game that Leach coached which was this season's Egg Bowl against Lane Kiffin and Mississippi.

After that will be a show entitled "Remembering Mike Leach" which airs from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. if anyone is interested in watching.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Leach has said that they looked at the 70’s and 80’s BYU offense when they popularized the air raid. And Briles was running the veer until the 90’s when he incorporated spread concepts into it. He then coached under leach at Texas tech. And it’s the briles offense that has many of the leach principles that UT runs now.
I guess to answer your question I DK where the splits came from, I would imagine that like all innovation, you start with V 1.0 and keep refining, maybe the splits weren’t day 1.

Passing in college football in the modern sense pretty much has its roots in what Coach Edwards did at BYU.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

We owe Hal Mumme even more

Hal Mumme is looking rough these days.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

I wish he had been hired instead of Pruitt.......

Literally anyone would have been better than Pruitt. Fulmer really screwed the pooch on that one.

 

[UTblood4life]

I remember when June Jones accepted the job at Hawaii. Timmy Chang put up some insane numbers when he was the quarterback there. Chang amassed over 17,000 passing yards while at Hawaii. That is insane. He is now the head coach at Hawaii.

Yeh i remember changs numbers were insane