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Piedmont takes spread offense to new level

By Ryan Canner-O'Mealy
ESPN RISE Magazine

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

This is the story of what happens when you unleash a mad scientist offensive coordinator and his innovative head coach on an unsuspecting and conservative football world. Back in 2004, Piedmont (Calif.) offensive coordinator Steve Humphries started tinkering with new formations to put into a game plan. He was trying to combat the problem the Highlanders ran into each postseason when they faced schools with much larger players. Humphries wanted to level the playing field. Like most football fa ...

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