re: So who is the new OC...and who calls the plays against OU?

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My choice would be to lure Shannon Dawson away from WVU

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Bingo. Me too. Him or the QB coach there, Jake Spavital. Both have pure Air Raid lineage.

I have a family member who coached with Dawson at SFA and he's who brought his name up with me.

What people on TexAgs don't get, among many other things, is that we're not going to get just any "spread" coach or "wide-open offense" coach. Whoever it is is going to be someone from the Air Raid tree. That's what we run now. That's what Sumlin wants to keep doing. The Air Raid is a very specific philosophy, with a very specific handful of plays called in a very specific way with certain reads and mentality. It's not interchngeale with other spead offenses, it's not a "general idea" or name it is THE Air Raid. Different coaches put their own spin on it, and it has evolved, but the basic nuts and bolts are the same and the essential philosphy is the same and it's different than the Oregon spread, or Urban's spread. It's its own thing, and it has to be run by an acolyte of the system - someone who came up as a GA under a coach who ran/runs it.

Now, the good thing is, once you get it, you get it. Sumlin's next hire will be the next Kingsbury, I don't think there was anything special about him. This family member who knows Dawson from his SFA days, when I watch games with him, he can call all the signals and can predict the next plays, who the ball's most likely going to, etc. Guys who know the Air Raid just know it. It's not complicated, but you have to be baptized in it first - and that's who Sumlin's going to go for.