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posted 12-19-2014 01:42 PM
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The first time new University of Kentucky offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson met Hal Mumme, the former was begging for a job a dozen years ago. The latter, the man who popularized the "Air Raid" offense with the Wildcats in the late 1990s, was doing all he could to scare off the poor kid.
"I say, 'Look, I'm not going to pay you for six months and you gotta do all the video.' I came up with all the bad jobs I could think of," Mumme remembers. "I was really trying to run him off, but he kept sitting there and nodding his head. 'Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.'
"So I tell him again I'm not going to pay him for six months. He says, 'I'll take the job.' "
The job, as advertised, wasn't much.
After leaving Lexington in early 2001 amid an NCAA investigation, followed by a brief period of exile, Mumme had resurfaced with a new challenge in 2002: rebooting a Southeastern Louisiana football program that had been dormant for nearly two decades.
At some point in the more than 400 days between the time Mumme took that job and the Lions' first game, friend and Air Raid disciple Dana Holgorsen – then at Texas Tech and now the head coach at West Virginia – called to say keep an eye out for Dawson.
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