How Bodie Reeder plans to build 'winning offense' at North Texas

Reeder's offense will bring some old school wrinkles to a new school game.

DENTON -- When Graham Harrell left North Texas to take the offensive coordinator job at USC, head coach Seth Littrell didn’t limit his search to just air raid candidates. Instead, his search spanned both coasts.

Eventually, it took him down to the FCS level, and nearly 2,000 miles away to Cheney, Wash. And even though the search took him just 70 miles away from Mike Leach in Pullman, Wash., the coach he got isn’t from that tree.

If you ask Bodie Reeder, he doesn’t quite fit on any tree at all.

“I’m not air raid,” Reeder told Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. “I don’t know what I am. If I had to describe my brand of offense, I would just call it a winning offense.”

Reeder isn’t lying. In just his second year as offensive coordinator at Eastern Washington, Reeder led the Eagles to the FCS national championship game against North Dakota State. His offense averaged 528.2 yards per game and 43.1 points per game, both of which ranked in the top five nationally.

“The things he was doing at Eastern Washington offensively really intrigued me,” Littrell said. “It was very similar to what I had done before at North Carolina and Indiana. He was doing special things. When I got on the phone and talked to people he had worked with, I was even more intrigued.”

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