Is there a difference on Leach vs Briles Air Raid?
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not really ,some have added a little more run into it. You can see what Lincoln riley did with OU but in theory they are all fundamentally the same type of offense. The problem is the defense, and you do not need to look any further than Baylor or Tech to see that if your D is not solid and your O cant produce the Air Raid can fail every bit as it succeeds.
Briles' offense is substantially different from Leach's. Briles' offense is not an Air Raid offense.
There are some decent articles on it that you can find on Google: http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/11/7/5073520/baylor-football-offense-art-briles-2013
There are some decent articles on it that you can find on Google: http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/11/7/5073520/baylor-football-offense-art-briles-2013
Briles has never run an Air Raid. In fact Leach hasn't run that type of scheme since his Tech days. Air Raid is not an offense. HUNH is what is en vogue now, a spread anchored with one power running back. This is what Briles has run
Where the hell does this Air Raid stuff come from? Hal Mumme?
Where the hell does this Air Raid stuff come from? Hal Mumme?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_offense
There are a bunch of teams that run this offense, In 2015 16 teams including OU, Baylor, ECU and many others. The true air raid is not really run anymore, most of them running it listed are more of a hybrid system.
There are a bunch of teams that run this offense, In 2015 16 teams including OU, Baylor, ECU and many others. The true air raid is not really run anymore, most of them running it listed are more of a hybrid system.
I was watching Briles' offense as far back as the mid to late 80's while he was at Stephenville. People think that just because he was Leach's RB coach at Tech that he took Leach's offense. Not true. Two totally different schemes. Briles' offense has more run.
I would say the same thing about what Riley is running at OU. Pretty heavy on the run.
I haven't looked at it. What is Riley's background? I know he's young. Is he a Texas High School guy?
If you really want a history lesson on the "air raid" you need to look back to the 60's for two dudes. Glenn Ellison and Mouse Davis. Glenn wrote the book, and Mouse took his system and perfected it
It was called the run and shoot. 4 and 5 wide and "spread" the Defense out and throw into the soft areas of the zone coverage. Once defenses started playing man to man, it got even easier until defenses had more speed than the wr's had. That created a problem. Most people don't realize that the Houston oilers regularly had backs rushing for impressive yardage in this "pass oriented" offense. Mouse coached guys like June Jones and Jerry Glanville. It's been bastardized, for lack of a better word into such offenses as the fun and gun (Steve spurrier), the spread, the air raid and the power spread.
Different philosophies to be sure but similar formations and results. A team with a great qb and some speedy pass catchers as well as a thumper at Rb can give you fits.
It was called the run and shoot. 4 and 5 wide and "spread" the Defense out and throw into the soft areas of the zone coverage. Once defenses started playing man to man, it got even easier until defenses had more speed than the wr's had. That created a problem. Most people don't realize that the Houston oilers regularly had backs rushing for impressive yardage in this "pass oriented" offense. Mouse coached guys like June Jones and Jerry Glanville. It's been bastardized, for lack of a better word into such offenses as the fun and gun (Steve spurrier), the spread, the air raid and the power spread.
Different philosophies to be sure but similar formations and results. A team with a great qb and some speedy pass catchers as well as a thumper at Rb can give you fits.
The air raid started off with Hal Mumme. He got the idea when he was at UTEP and he was inspired by the BYU passing game. The air raid was developed by Mumme and Leach at Iowa Wesleyan. So you have the shallow cross concepts, the mesh concepts, the stick concepts, corner concepts, shake concepts, and the wide receiver screens. They have this weird under mike over sam cross with the H back. This stuff is way different the the Run and Shoot. I don't know all of what Briles runs but If I could get my hands on the wide and endzone coaches film I could figure it out pretty quick. I know its different than the concepts that the air raid guys use.
@westx - there's a couple of takes on the GO (Gilbert Offense - I just made that up and I'm quite proud of it) you can read about here.
Briles has a lot of option/veer in his offense. Leach still throws it 70% of the time. Tech, Baylor, and OU have a 50/50 split give or take a few %'s. Briles has almost zero "Leach Air Raid" in his system. Tech and OU have much more of the terminology that Leach uses but from a philosophical standpoint they are going to run the ball more. Art gets connected to Leach because of his time at Tech but in reality neither one rubbed off on the other when they were together. Art tried to install some veer principles while at Tech but we didn't have the personnel and Leach didn't have the want to when it came to running the ball.
Leach is the only one that still runs a "true" Air Raid. 4 games this year his QB attempted 60+ passed, while Wazzu's leading rusher carried the ball just over 100 times all year.
A lot of people don't know this, but the Run and Shoot is the father of both the Flexbone, and the modern spread. Noise Davis' RnS was run from the Flexbone formations, with a single back, 2 slotbacks, and 2 WR. Smartfootball.com has an excellent series on the evolution from the RnS to the spread of today. http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/simple-approach-to-run-and-shoot-part-1.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/run-and-shoot-series-part-2-seam-read.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/run-and-shoot-series-part-3-choice.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/08/run-shoot-series-part-4-streak.html?m=1
Bonus: Air Raid http://smartfootball.com/offense/th...-to-holgorsen-and-beyond#sthash.rLLcHUrA.dpbs
A lot of people don't know this, but the Run and Shoot is the father of both the Flexbone, and the modern spread. Noise Davis' RnS was run from the Flexbone formations, with a single back, 2 slotbacks, and 2 WR. Smartfootball.com has an excellent series on the evolution from the RnS to the spread of today. http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/simple-approach-to-run-and-shoot-part-1.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/run-and-shoot-series-part-2-seam-read.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/03/run-and-shoot-series-part-3-choice.html?m=1
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/08/run-shoot-series-part-4-streak.html?m=1
Bonus: Air Raid http://smartfootball.com/offense/th...-to-holgorsen-and-beyond#sthash.rLLcHUrA.dpbs
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When Holgerson was Leach's OC he used to hate the lack of a run game. One play a D dropped 9 and the AB ended up getting sacked after a long time. He got on the headset and asked Holgerson who was open. Thats why he runs the ball. Runs all of the same passing concepts with a TE, H-Back, and RB in the pistol.
Kinda like what Dana is doing here at WVU its a form of the air raid with different tweaks for different coaches. When Dana was first hired he used zone blocking and was 50/50 run pass. Now WVU uses a power blocking scheme and is 60/40 run pass. Every coach in this coaching tree use alot of the same principals as the original Air Raid but tweak it here or there. IMO the coaches who run this type of system and have the most success are the ones who taylor fit the system to the personnel they have. I see Texas using alot of zone read mixed with the right amount pass plays getting your athletes the ball in space. Great hire! Good luck Horns!
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