The definition of Air Raid is "a raid by aircraft, especially for bombing a particular area". When Coach Mark Stoops hired former Wildcat Neal Brown, the fan base had visions of the next Tim Couch using the football as an aircraft to bomb the 100x53.3 yards rectangle area inside commonwealth stadium.
While Brown's offense was a tremendous upgrade from the appropriately named Joker days, it did not quite conjure up the same memories as when Hal Mumme roamed the sidelines. There are many reasons for this.
The first is that Mumme unveiled this offense at a time when nobody in the SEC had really seen anything like it; it took defenses a few years to adjust.