By Lee Pace
Phil Longo was the head coach at Parsippany Hills High in New Jersey in 1997 when he saw the evolution of Kentucky QB Tim Couch throwing for nearly 4,000 yards and racking up points like a pinball machine. Wanting to learn more of what coaches Hal Mumme and Mike Leach were doing, Longo drove 11 hours to Lexington, Ky., in his Toyota 4-Runner in the spring of 1998, eating Moon Pies for sustenance and sleeping in his vehicle to hear Leach, the Wildcats' quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, speak at a clinic about the "Air Raid" offense he and Mumme had developed at Iowa Wesleyan and Valdosta State.