Leach ran the Air Raid. It's a small playbook (30+ plays) but each pass play has a myriad of rout options, so it's not as simple as some would think. Like Tony Franklin under Dykes while at CAL, the goal of the Air Raid is repetition to perfection. With fewer plays to run you can rep each one many more times than in a traditional offense. In a typical week during the season in a Pro Style offense, you are lucky to rep 20 plays. In the Air Raid system, you are repping plays week in and week out. When you can execute plays perfectly, even when the defense knows whats coming, you score and you win.
As to Spav, he has his own system with its own tweaks. He's known as a brilliant offensive signal caller so I think we'll be fine with him. I'm just looking forward to some variety, insead of some 3rd and 1 screen or dive up the middle, maybe one of those plays like Fresno ran against WASU, like the snap that went under Haener while he was under center, where Hener fakes the QB sneak but the ball goes directly to a RB in wildcat who had the option of handing off to a jet sweep or running the ball himself based on the read. The WASU defense had no clue on that play. Just brilliant and so much fun to watch the ingenuity of the play design and call.
That's the basis of an air raid. Running the ball a lot pull defenses in, air raid offenses have a lot of receivers to spread defenses out horizontally and create a numbers advantage. The problem with pure air raid offenses is that they run into a wall against good defenses. Look at Leach's scoring averages against Wilcox. They never scored more than 20 against us I believe until he left and a new coaching staff took over.
Air raid will be great to get our offense back to average immediately and compete, but if we want to compete for a conference championship we're going to need a more balanced attack.
Leach ran the Air Raid. It's a small playbook (30+ plays) but each pass play has a myriad of rout options, so it's not as simple as some would think. Like Tony Franklin under Dykes while at CAL, the goal of the Air Raid is repetition to perfection. With fewer plays to run you can rep each one many more times than in a traditional offense. In a typical week during the season in a Pro Style offense, you are lucky to rep 20 plays. In the Air Raid system, you are repping plays week in and week out. When you can execute plays perfectly, even when the defense knows whats coming, you score and you win.
As to Spav, he has his own system with its own tweaks. He's known as a brilliant offensive signal caller so I think we'll be fine with him. I'm just looking forward to some variety, insead of some 3rd and 1 screen or dive up the middle, maybe one of those plays like Fresno ran against WASU, like the snap that went under Haener while he was under center, where Hener fakes the QB sneak but the ball goes directly to a RB in wildcat who had the option of handing off to a jet sweep or running the ball himself based on the read. The WASU defense had no clue on that play. Just brilliant and so much fun to watch the ingenuity of the play design and call.
That was the concept of Dykes as well who comes from Leach coaching tree.
That's the basis of an air raid. Running the ball a lot pull defenses in, air raid offenses have a lot of receivers to spread defenses out horizontally and create a numbers advantage. The problem with pure air raid offenses is that they run into a wall against good defenses. Look at Leach's scoring averages against Wilcox. They never scored more than 20 against us I believe until he left and a new coaching staff took over.
Air raid will be great to get our offense back to average immediately and compete, but if we want to compete for a conference championship we're going to need a more balanced attack.