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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 1164905, member: 1333"] There are legions of disciples of the Air Raid spread offense being trained as we speak at places like Baylor, Oregon, Washington State, Texas Tech, and WVU and still more that run variations of the spread, like Arizona, Ole Miss, Indiana, and Texas aTm. I like HCSS and would like to keep him here. I would love to have someone like Phil Montgomery as SU's OC. Yes, I know Phil Mongomery is not likely to leave Baylor as OC and come to be SU's OC. I don't know that Phil Montgomery can come to SU and win as a HC. In most cases, it takes a few years to install a spread Air Raid if Baylor and WVU are any guidance. Can Phil get kids to come to SU to run it? I don't know and I think he might have some trouble with that being from Texas and so far from home. What I think we would do better with is a younger guy who isn't an OC yet but who has run, worked with and knows the Air Raid spread offense inside and out for years as a QB or WR coach in Baylor's system or Oregon's system or WVU's system where it worked well and give that kid a promotion to OC. GMD doesn't qualify, as he obviously didn't come from a team that ran the air raid spread well. Ideally, you'd need a couple of those guys from the same school who are buddies and who "get it". Maybe offer the QB coach the OC job and WR coach the passing attack coordinator job. I think there is a better chance of retaining that OC longer term. If you bring in Montgomery as HC and he does well and runs that offense to its capability here, he's the next coach to go to an SEC opening or to leave to get back to a program closer to home in Texas. He's also taking his offensive coaches with him to install that system at that new school. If you bring in a couple younger guys, have them install the offense and teach it to other offensive coaches, you've got a system and not a coach who leaves. [/QUOTE]

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