Mike Leach stories

[Faux Sean Callahan]

Pretty interesting thread...



Gonna need @slattimer and @Bootleg11 to maybe do some translating

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

https://twitter.com/smartfootball/status/1602685962751975426?s=20&t=LfqM99QoV108w6WXH1ln8A

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Leach not over coaching and making guys actually learn the game seems like a lost art. it's definitely a huge problem in college basketball where every single second is being coached by lots of coaches

 

[slattimer]

Air Raid guys' call sheets are incredibly small. They run their concepts out of multiple formations and teach their QBs a simple way of reading it IMO. They'll run the holy shit out of Y-Cross, Mesh, and a couple other staples.

92, 95, etc is the pass concept. Air Raid coaches like Mumme and Leach have made 92 famous, and what most people know as the mesh concept. Leach in all reality didn't need a call sheet. The dude was a genius and could call from the hip and do it effectively. Figure out how the defense was playing you for the most part, call the concepts that hurt it. Over, and over, and over again.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Air Raid guys' call sheets are incredibly small. They run their concepts out of multiple formations and teach their QBs a simple way of reading it IMO. They'll run the holy shit out of Y-Cross, Mesh, and a couple other staples.

92, 95, etc is the pass concept. Air Raid coaches like Mumme and Leach have made 92 famous, and what most people know as the mesh concept. Leach in all reality didn't need a call sheet. The dude was a genius and could call from the hip and do it effectively. Figure out how the defense was playing you for the most part, call the concepts that hurt it. Over, and over, and over again.

Maybe I think this because I'm an absolute idiot, but it amazes me how many offenses are just like 5 things with a ton of different window dressing.

 

[herbsinator]

Everyone should read the book A Perfect Pass, it details the history of how Hal Mumme and Leach came up with the Air Raid. I actually just finished it recently.

 

[herbsinator]

Air Raid guys' call sheets are incredibly small. They run their concepts out of multiple formations and teach their QBs a simple way of reading it IMO. They'll run the holy shit out of Y-Cross, Mesh, and a couple other staples.

92, 95, etc is the pass concept. Air Raid coaches like Mumme and Leach have made 92 famous, and what most people know as the mesh concept. Leach in all reality didn't need a call sheet. The dude was a genius and could call from the hip and do it effectively. Figure out how the defense was playing you for the most part, call the concepts that hurt it. Over, and over, and over again.

The plays are all designed with multiple options so they can call the same thing over and over again and it will look different each time depending on what the defense does. This also allowed them to drill the ever living shit out of the plays so they could execute them perfectly.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

Air Raid guys' call sheets are incredibly small. They run their concepts out of multiple formations and teach their QBs a simple way of reading it IMO. They'll run the holy shit out of Y-Cross, Mesh, and a couple other staples.

92, 95, etc is the pass concept. Air Raid coaches like Mumme and Leach have made 92 famous, and what most people know as the mesh concept. Leach in all reality didn't need a call sheet. The dude was a genius and could call from the hip and do it effectively. Figure out how the defense was playing you for the most part, call the concepts that hurt it. Over, and over, and over again.

It amazes me how simple, but yet hard to defend mesh is. You can probably say that about a lot of the air raid passing concepts at the end of the day...

 

[slattimer]

The plays are all designed with multiple options so they can call the same thing over and over again and it will look different each time depending on what the defense does. This also allowed them to drill the ever living shit out of the plays so they could execute them perfectly.

Pretty much this, and that routes have conversions vs different coverages, and reason why it must be drilled so much. 92 is a great man beater, but it's also good at finding soft spots in zones because the routes can convert vs any coverage and get open.

 

[Black Dean]

Everyone should read the book A Perfect Pass, it details the history of how Hal Mumme and Leach came up with the Air Raid. I actually just finished it recently.

I’ll add it to my list

 

[slattimer]

I'll also note, Air Raid guys are notorious ass holes in sharing information, or maybe I should say more of, their info being leaked. Dude's associated with Mumme have been pricks to dudes on twitter sharing any info on their offense, especially playbooks where lawyers have slapped guys with threats of lawsuits if they don't take those copies down.

I don't think Leach was that way.

 

[Bootleg11]

I would like to take this moment to remind everybody that Craig James is a huge douche canoe.

Not because of anything he did recently but because he's the only person I know of that personally attacked Leach's coaching.

 

[Bootleg11]

@slattimer My freshman year I played at Southern Arkansas and Chris Hatcher took over at Valdosta St and brought a Kentucky QB with him from Mumme's air raid system. Fuck that offense was good.

Also on that staff at Valdosta...Will Muschamp and Kirby Smart 😵

 

[Skerz4Life50]

I would like to take this moment to remind everybody that Craig James is a huge douche canoe.

Not because of anything he did recently but because he's the only person I know of that personally attacked Leach's coaching.

And he killed 5 hookers

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

This is a great thread too

 

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