Mass Confusion

TALE OF THE TAPE Texas Tech New Mexico State Mike Leach/TTU Hal Mumme/NMS Spread Offense TTU has won 3 straight NCAA passing titles Mumme’s SLU led Div. I-AA in total offense and passing in 2004 SCHOOLS COACHES SCHEME POWER STAT POWER STAT 11 University of Memphis Georgia Military College Joe Lee Dunn/UM Taylor Burks and Rob Manchester/GMC 3-5-3 Tigers’ D went from 57th to 9th in Dunn’s lst year 2003 GMC defense ranked 3rd in the nation in total defense and 6th in passing defense Receivers are hooking, slanting, stopping, going and flying all over the field. With gaping splits, the offensive line looks like it stretches from one sideline to the other. Sometimes they huddle; sometimes they don’t. It’s 100 yards of organized mass confusion, otherwise known as the spread offense. The three defensive linemen are causing more havoc than they should. Any number of the five