re: Is Hal Mumme the most influential coach in modern CFB history?

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Coaching tree
Coryell's coaching tree is absurdly illustrious and wildly successful. The list of assistants who worked with Coryell then took parts of his systems with them as coaches or coordinators includes John Madden, Joe Gibbs, Jim Hanifan, Ernie Zampese, Rod Dowhower, Al Saunders, Tom Bass and Jim L. Mora, among many others.

As you probably know, John Madden won his Super Bowl with the Raiders in 1976. Joe Gibbs took his modified Coryell system to Washington, where he won three Super Bowls; first in 1982, again in 1987 and once more in 1991.

Ernie Zampese, who started out at San Diego State with Coryell, later taught the offense to Norv Turner. Turner took that offense, made some tweaks, which included a greater emphasis on sideline throws, and won two Super Bowls as offensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys in 1992 and '93. Zampese replaced Turner as offensive coordinator in Dallas when Turner got a head coaching gig in 1994, and was the offensive coordinator for the Cowboys when they won another Super Bowl in 1995.

Zampese would take Mike Martz -- who was obsessed with the Air Coryell offense -- under his wing to mentor him on the system, and Martz used those lessons to win the 1999 Super Bowl with the Rams' Greatest Show on Turf.

Other proponents of the Air Coryell system include Al Saunders, Cam Cameron, Tom Moore, Brian Schottenheimer and Jason Garrett, and both Bill Belichick and Sean Payton give credit to Coryell for the development of the move tight end, important in their offensive playbooks.

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