The week before last former Texas Tech (and for 34 days USC’s new offensive coordinator) head coach Kliff Kingsbury was tapped by the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals to fill that team’s head coaching vacancy. Though many readers have likely never heard of Mumme, in 2014 ESPN The Magazine’s Kevin Van Valkenburg concluded that Mumme was the most influential football coach of modern times. By the time Mumme was head coach at Iowa Wesleyan, Gwynne writes that his “offense did not have a playbook. There’s also the appreciation for Washington State head coach Mike Leach, with whom Mumme developed the Air Raid long ago. Notable here is that Leach coached Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech, and then Kingsbury eventually employed the Air Raid at Tech himself.

Source: Forbes January 20, 2019 14:00 UTC