Hal Mumme

13 is the most points they have scored against a Power Four opponent this season.

It is truly pathetic what this program has become offensively, and really a disgrace to Mike Leach and Hal Mumme.

Like, it, it's where Sonny Dykes came from.

That was his bread and butter at one point, that kind of offense.

Well, uh-

... senior year, you know, there was no play, there was no, uh, headset back then in college, but June Jones and Hal Mumme, June and Hal thought it would be a fun idea to work together, two kind of passing game pioneers.

Oh, perfect.

Hell yeah.

Scrooge, huh? Yeah, that was the Grinch that sold about $10.5 million, though, from the coffers there at Notre Dame.

I want to give a present to a guy.

Hey, Kentucky, not Tim Couch, but Hal Mummey.

He's got the system.

He's got the great quarterback.

I'm your host, Stuart Brookine, and my guest today, his returning guest, is the godfather of the air raid offense.

I'm talking about Coach Hal Mumme.

Coach, welcome back onto the podcast.

I'm a big fan, and I'm glad to have you back on.

This is an offense, this is an offense that, uh, that I played in that is not all that complicated.

I mean, again, we talked about the scheme being, you know, s- derived from the Air Raid, which goes back to Hal Mumme, and it's the simplest offense in the history of the world.

Um, I mean, at least that's the way Hal Mumme likes to describe it, and Mike Leach used to say.

And again, it's not the exact same.

There is some more nuance to an NFL offense versus the traditional Air Raid, but it is not all that complicated.

I wish I could remember the 1922 guy.

The 1997 one, win was Hal Mumme.

Hal Mumme, yeah.

But I, but they said at one point in this series, the series was tied at one game a piece, and I'm like, yeah, since then Kentucky's won in '39.

Yikes.

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Oh, man.

I got a Hal Mumme story I'll tell you real quick.

I'm paraphrasing, but something like that.

And that pretty much sent me to the moon because FAU is an Air Raid team and the founder of Air Raid, Hal Mumme, has said countless times over and over again, That essentially the core number one philosophy of air raid is to throw the ball short as many times as possible to players who can score.

Number one, throw the ball short as many times as possible to players who can score.

And then you have your defensive coordinator saying, man, it's really impressive that they threw the ball short every time.

So, TJ, you may have listened, but.

There is the stars aligning in this and the fact that the last time you beat Alabama was Mummy's first year coming in and saving you with an air raid offense from a boring Bill Curry team.

And now what do we have here? Will Stein in his first year against Alabama bringing in an offense exciting, saving you from the boring Mark

Stoops team.

You know, there's a bunch of numbers they give you, but when I was looking yesterday, one of those that really kind of stuck out was the fact that they had 506 yards of total offense in their opener.

That was the most, um, in 20- or since 2021, but the most yards of total offense in a debut since Hal Mumme threw up 519 against Louisville back in 1997.

Uh, I know a lot of Bama fans just got really nauseous 'cause they remember, uh, another trip to Lexington when Bama played a Hal Mumme coached team and, and that was not a very pleasant day.

Uh, he was, he was pretty good out of the gate with his teams offensively, and I'm not shocked that, that Will Stein's team was able to do that.

Now, this was, you know, Youngstown State.