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Source: The Eagle, Bryan, TexasSept.存倉 21--Instructions to build a prolific Air-Raid offense:--Pour over tons of BYU tape from the '70s and '80s when LaVell Edwards was coach.--Find a quarterback who can throw the fade, the out, the dig, the hot, the flag and the flare on time and on target.--Have your receivers get repetitions from the same spot, on the same routes, day after day.--Condition your offense to where it can't stop, won't stop. Tempo, tempo, tempo.Some assembly is required. Playbook, on the other hand, is not.Don't think it's that simple? Ask A&M wide receiver Malcome Kennedy."We got it [installed] in, I promise you, about three or four days," he said.The "godfather" of the Air Raid offense, Hal Mumme, will be on the sidelines Saturday when A&M takes on SMU. While the Aggies' high-powered offense is on the field, he'll be looking at an incarnation of his baby at maybe its finest.A&M isn't the only team running Mumme's Air Raid offense. What started with Mumme and his offensive coordinator Mike Leach at Iowa Wesleyan has spread like wildfire across the country -- at both the high school and college level. Turn on a West Virginia game, Air Raid. Turn on a Cal game, Air Raid. Turn on a Texas Tech game, Air Raid. Turn on a UCLA game, Air Raid.During A&M's game against Louisiana Tech in 2012 -- both schools coached by Air Raid disciples -- a graphic popped up on the screen showing the roots of the once-rare offense."Hal Mumme is kind of the founding father," said Kelly Stouffer, the game's color analyst. "What these guys do permeates [to] what you see in college football on a Saturday anywhere in the country."Mumme doesn't mind that coaches across the country are borrowing his principles for the spread offense, though."When people copy you," Mumme said, "it's the highest form of flattery."Want proof that folks have copied Mumme? In the first 100 or so years of college football, only 10 players passed for 10,000 yards and 100 touchdowns during their careers. In the past 15 years, 49 have done it.The spreadThough Mumme and Leach successfully ran the offense during stints at Iowa Wesleyan and Valdosta State, it took them pulling off the seemingly impossible -- a prolific passing offense -- in the run-heavy Southeastern Conference for the rest of the country to take notice. During Mumme's tenure at Kentucky, the Wildcats set multiple SEC and national passing records and went to two consecutive bowl games -- something the Wildcats hadn't done in over a decade."People thought we were crazy," Mumme remembered.Crazy as they may have been, other coaches saw the style and wanted to emulate it -- one of them was Kevin Sumlin, who was an assistant at Minnesota at the time.They would meet once a year and it was invitation only. The meetings included coaches like Sonny Dykes, Dana Holgorsen, Noel Mazzone and, of course, Leach."There was an internal cult of crazy coaches who didn't line up in the I-formation and run into each other," Sumlin said.When Leach became the head coach at Texas Tech, the country took notice as his quarterbacks racked up NCAA passing records annually and the Red Raiders saw success their program had never experienced.From there, staff members Art Briles and Holgorsen moved on, taking the offense with them. One of Leach's quarterbacks, Kliff Kingsbury, did the same, and the Air Raid family tree continued sprouting new limbs.An offense that was once called crazy is now the cool thing. Mumme isn't surprised that his scheme has caught on in a big way -- it's more enjoyable for the players and fans than just banging out of the I-formation or wishbone on every down."It's fun for the players to play [in] and fun for the fans to watch," Mumme said. "It's the 21st century. It's the offense you run this century. You move fast and players grow up playing video games, and it's not as hard to teach it because they know so much about the game coming to you as high school players."The ideologyThe principles of the offense are rather basic -- spread out the field with receivers, simplify the offense and go, go, go."You just teach this series of plays and do them as fast as you can and rep out all the fundamentals," Mumme said. "You do it so much that throughout the course of the season, you just out-rep defenses that have only three or four days to prepare."Sumlin echoed that sentiment last season when he talked about the simplicity of his scheme."We're better off having 11 guys knowing what to do on offense and the guys we're playing against knowing what we're going to do than having two or three guys [on offense] knowing exactly what we're going to do and it being real fancy or complicated," he said.So too did his then-offensive迷你倉coordinator, and current Texas Tech head coach, Kingsbury."It's a belief that if you can get them to play faster and not think as much and let them use their natural abilities the best they can, then you're going to have a better product," Kingsbury said.The reasoning behind the simplification is that you cut a guy's reps in practice in half if he has to practice a route from opposite sides of the field, and the quarterback has to learn to throw it to him on both sides. So instead, there aren't too many concepts in the offense, and as a result, there isn't as much thinking once the ball is snapped -- except by the players on the defensive side.The route trees, over the years, have stayed relatively similar. Some coaches opt to be more vertical out of the Air Raid. Some coaches, such as Leach, have stuck with the horizontal style of the passing game -- using the famed "mesh" route much more often.Holgorsen opted to go more vertical with the passing game when he was Sumlin's offensive coordinator at Houston during 2008-09. He also utilized the running game more often than others because he had capable offensive linemen and running backs.A&M's version is very similar to what Holgorsen's iteration, as co-offensive coordinator Jake Spavital coached under Holgorsen at Houston and West Virginia.According to SmartFootball.com, A&M employs a more vertical passing game. With its receivers bursting up the field at the snap, it becomes more difficult for the defense to read the patterns once they get going.But just because the Air Raid has an affinity for the passing game, that doesn't mean A&M hasn't given up on the run game. Kingsbury said when he got to A&M he was going to do whatever it took to score points.When the defense stacks the box or gives the Aggies numbers, they throw the ball. But when the numbers in the box are in their favor, they will gladly give the ball to one of their talented backs and allow one of the nation's best offensive lines to fire off and do their thing.While the downfield depth of some routes has changed, as have team's run-pass ratios, all the principles of the Air Raid have stayed the same throughout the last two decades."There's a million ways to skin a cat, but you don't necessarily need to know everything about it," Sumlin said. "You need to know what to do when it's not going right and how to fix those things. You can't dabble in three or four different things, you've got to know what you're doing in one specific period and be able to make adjustments when those things break down."Of course, those adjustments are made easier when you have a quarterback like Johnny Manziel.Mumme said his favorite quarterback to watch when he was studying the offense was Steve Young because of his ability to create plays when they weren't there.Mumme thinks Manziel has that same ability."Johnny Manziel can fit in any offense," he said. "We talk about system quarterbacks, every player has to play with the sword you're handed. We used to say that the offense is a tool. Manziel can swing anybody's sword but the one he's got at A&M is the best fit for him because it allows him to make so many plays."The legacyHere's something to think about. Without Mumme, Manziel may be taking snaps from under center and handing the ball off play-after-play out of the wishbone.Spread offenses, and extreme versions of it like the Air Raid, aren't going anywhere. All you have to do is go to a local high school game on a Friday night to realize they're here to stay.Mumme joined forces with Run 'N Shoot innovator June Jones this offseason to form an offense they are calling the Run 'N Raid. He wouldn't go into too many details about its exact principles, but he did say he thinks it could be the next chapter in the evolution of the offense he ushered in during the late '80s."It's going to be kind of an updated version," he said. "There are so many people doing it, you have to stay ahead of the curve."As for Sumlin, his offense has been ranked in the top three in total offense four of his last five seasons. A&M is averaging 609.3 yards per game, good for third in college football. Sumlin's best season was 2011 at Houston when the Cougars averaged 599.1 yards per game.He said he owes a bit of gratitude to both Mumme and Jones, who have effectively changed a game that used to be played inside the hashmarks into the fast-paced, highlight-laden version we watch every Saturday."I have a lot of respect for both men," Sumlin said, "what they've accomplished and how they've altered the history of college football."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) Visit The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) at .theeagle.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉