Ilovefridaynights
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Do all think the Air raid can work at the sixman level with limited to the run?
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Air Raid
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@griffithkpacoach does a pretty good job of it in my opinion
Jones26
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Coach Briles ran it at Bryson.
I think they watched some 6man football and then invented the air raid...
griffithkpacoach
Six-man fan
Thanks Brotha. I am not an expert by any means, but I love the Air Raid and we’ve tried to adapt it as best as we can to sixman. To reiterate what @Leman Saunders said, I mentioned at the @TheSixClinic this summer that the Air Raid really should have been created in sixman and then made its way up to 11man. The whole philosophy of Air Raid is “throw it short, as many times as possible, to guys who can score.” If that ain’t sixman I don’t know what is
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Roach
Six-man pro
That would be the Run and Shoot offense! I believe his name is Tiger Ellison that created it based on watching kids play "sandlot," football. Then he created what is now known as choice routes or option routes. Mouse Davis really did the best with June Jones when they were at Hawaii. Early 90's Houston had some amazing offenses. And what killed it was the K-Gun offense that the Buffalo Bills used when they got beat in all of those super bowls.
Gary Rickard (RIP) created an offense based on this concept at Granbury Happy Hill! I remember you saying y'all played them and I have watched that game on YouTube.
Coach_Forge
Six-man fan
Not many folks will remember this because it was only for a brief period of time, but from 2016-2019, when New Braunfels Christian Academy was still playing sixman under Coach Wood, he pioneered a true air raid offense down in the south i.e. direct snap to the QB every play, lining up 2 & 3 receivers wide, slinging the ball down field, almost no run game. NBCA's record during that era was stellar (see below). They never lacked for talent. Several kids from that era went to play college ball (Braison Rudd, Mason Lemme, etc.) What cost NBCA games was their overconfidence and some questionable coaching decisions. Nonetheless, I have used and adapted a lot of Coach Wood's concepts into my own spread offense with great success over the years.
2016 (10-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Waco Live Oak 30-64)
2017 (9-3) Regional finalist (NBCA lost to Bulverde Bracken 56-72)
2018 (10-3) State semi-finalist (NBCA lost to Huntsville Alpha Omega 57-58)
2019 (11-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Watauga Harvest 52-60)
2016 (10-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Waco Live Oak 30-64)
2017 (9-3) Regional finalist (NBCA lost to Bulverde Bracken 56-72)
2018 (10-3) State semi-finalist (NBCA lost to Huntsville Alpha Omega 57-58)
2019 (11-2) State Runner-Up (NBCA lost to Watauga Harvest 52-60)
I thought the Air Raid was based on the Spread. Invented by Rusty Russell in the 1920's with the Fort Worth Masonic Home Mighty Mites. The Air Raid aspect perfected by the University of Houston in the late 1980's - early 90's. Then refined by Mike Leach at Texas Tech. But I'm no coach, IDK.
Roach
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Houston ran the Run and Shoot during that time. John Jenkins made it a Shotgun set and split out the wings to slots. Mike Leach and Hal Mumme created the Air Raid from Bill Walsh when he was at BYU. Then mixed in concepts from the Run and Shoot option routes. The main difference is the Run and Shoot has multiple options routes and the QB and WR's read the defense on the fly. The Air Raid basically simplified everything by designing plays that will beat specific coverages. Aka utilize the entire field and spread it around. Also more freedom for the QB to make calls if they see something better.
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