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Oklahoma State football: Roots of coaching tree that produced Mike Yurcich break traditional Big 12 mold

STILLWATER — Mike Yurcich peered over his shoulder, spotted the gray-haired man in his 80s, and took a deep breath.

It was the early 2000s. Inside a coaches box above a football stadium in northeast Indiana. An NAIA playoff game. Yurich's assistant coaching career at St. Francis was in its infancy but he was already calling plays for an explosive pass-first offense.

The system was born from the run-and-shoot: motions, jet sweeps, four-receiver sets and versatile tailbacks. The man standing in the room, Stewart “Red” Faught, was among its founding fathers.

“He was just in the back listening to me call the game,” Yurcich said.