Who needs the shotgun when you've got the Pistol

Nevada's head coach Chris Ault has been using a new offensive scheme where the quarterback lines up a yard or two behind the center, with one or two running backs behind the QB. He likes to call this formation, the pistol. Some coaches such as San Jose State coach Dick Tomey said the pistol is essentially the old single-wing that teams ran in leather-helmet days. This pistol formation has become the new craze among high school and some smaller colleges. Ault has received around 85 phone calls from interested coaches asking about how he uses this new formation. Before Nevada moved into the Mountain West they relied on mainly a passing attack, but this formation allows the same benefits the shotgun does in the passing game and iit makes the running game more of a threat. Last year the Nevada Wolfpack finished 9-3 and claimed a share of the WAC title.