… Once you’re in it, you’re a true believer, there’s really no other way to do it in your mind.” “There’s the Air Raid family, there’s the run-and-shoot family. “I think there’s a lot of guys who’ve played in it, who are trying to get into coaching and right now, I don’t know how many other people are doing it,” Rolovich said. The Cougars, with a freshman quarterback, Jayden de Laura, who’s fairly articulate in the run-and-shoot himself, will open against Oregon State in Corvallis at 7:30 p.m. That springboarded Rolovich to Washington State, where in less than 48 hours, he’ll not only be the first coach to unveil the offense in the modern Pac-12, but also the first with a chance to establish its validity in a Power Five conference. He taught it as an offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach in Honolulu from 2008-11, then resuscitated it as a head coach at his alma mater from 2018-19, leading the Rainbow Warriors to 18 wins, a Mountain West title game appearance and plenty of run-and-shoot revelry. ![]() The first-year Washington State coach, a run-and-shoot pupil in more ways than one, played in the offense two decades ago at the University of Hawaii, peaking as a college quarterback in 2001 with eight touchdown passes in a historic 72-45 win over BYU. The offense conceived by Tiger, popularized by Mouse and refined by June is now left in the hands of Rolo. “The problem is, you have to have coached it to understand all the intricacies and know what to do.” “Well, whenever it’s been somewhere, it is the top offense,” Jones, the former SMU, Hawaii and NFL coach – and subject of the aforementioned headline – said over the phone recently. One year later, Grantland, the sports and pop culture blog owned and operated by ESPN from 2011-15, closed up shop.Īnd the run-and-shoot? Its vitals are stable, and the offense derived from a 1965 hardcover book written by Glenn “Tiger” Ellison is preparing for one of its most important auditions yet, more than a half-century later. ![]() ![]() “June Jones’ Retirement, and the Lasting Influence and Likely End of the Run-and-Shoot Offense.” The headline came from a 2014 article in Grantland, depicting the inevitable demise of an offensive system that kicked around for a number of decades, changed the way many looked at football, but never had the stamina or substance to grab a permanent seat in the NFL, let alone grow in popularity at the college level.
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