It started with a clinic and ended with a piece of Air Raid history. Hal Mumme and Air Raid Certification hosted a clinic space at the AFCA Convention in 2022 expecting maybe a hundred coaches to come. More than 700 showed up. Afterward, Hal threw a party at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Mike Leach and several other coaches were there, and sometime during the night, AJ Smith handed Hal his Microsoft Surface Pro and told him to draw 92. NFTs were the trend a

There’s something about a coach and an empty whiteboard. It rarely stays empty for long. Plays get drawn. Then erased. Then drawn again. Routes overlap. Colors change. Notes get squeezed into whatever space is left. Eventually, every inch is covered. It starts to look less like a meeting room whiteboard and more like a kid’s coloring book. That’s part of the creativity of coaching. In the early days of the Air Raid, Hal Mumme and Mike Leach were constantly drawing, experiment

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