The thing about the Air Raid is that it’s as much an attitude and a philosophy as it is a scheme. Sure, there are lots of Xs and Os and arrows scribbled on pieces of paper that illustrate how brilliantly the sausage gets made, but at its core — when you strip everything else away — the Air Raid really is just about audacity.
Even in an era in which the passing game is more pervasive and sophisticated than ever before at all levels of football — more than 20 years after Hal Mumme and Mike Leach brought their wacky ideas to the Big Boy College Football Scene at Kentucky — there are people all over the game who still just can’t BELIEVE that a team would put the ball in the air 50, 60 or even 70 times in a game, as WSU regularly does.