The following is an excerpt from my new book “Flyover Football: How the Big 12 became the frontier for modern offense”. The book details how and why the spread offense took over in the Big 12, why it’s expanding to every other level of football, and finally what’s coming next for the Big 12 conference.
We pick up in 2015 when Oklahoma Sooners Bob Stoops decided to shake things up again on offense by hiring Lincoln Riley from East Carolina...
The situation in 2015 was unique for an Air Raid coach like Riley.