Read Mumme's response. Well now we know how well it can work. You combine top tire talent with the air raid and you can destroy teams.
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/6/26/3118498/hal-mumme-interview
SH: Do you think a top 25 program, one that doesn't necessarily live on the edge, can be successful playing within the Air Raid?
HM: We're gonna find out, because Kevin Sumlin is the first guy in our little group who can go around in his area and recruit the top 25 players. We're gonna find out, but I always thought you could. Leach and I used to talk about this all the time when we were at Kentucky. We'd look at all these guys being signed in the SEC. The top teams in the SEC are always recruiting the top ten or twenty players in the nation, and we were recruiting the top two hundred. We always thought we could.
Mike had the same setup at Texas Tech. There were always five or six schools competing for your recruits in the state, and he's sort of in the same position at Washington State right now. I think Kevin's the first guy who runs Air Raid who has a chance to do that. So we're going to have a pretty good object lesson. I always thought if you got better players you'd just get better at it. Coach Edwards once told me that the reason BYU won the 1984 national championship is because they resisted the temptation to become conservative after they started getting better players.
[This message has been edited by Space91 (edited 12/14/2012 3:33p).]