Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, a good friend of Indiana coach Kevin Wilson’s, came up with the term.
“[Sumlin] called everybody ‘play burglars,'” Wilson said. “We’re all watching what works and getting neat ideas. I don’t know if I’m a fan of other teams, but you always watch other teams, just to get an idea of a new shift, a new motion, a new wrinkle.”
Both Wilson and Urban Meyer were play burglars from 1999 to 2001.
Wilson, then the offensive coordinator at Northwestern, traveled with Wildcats head coach Randy Walker to Clemson to meet with the Tigers’ offensive coordinator, Rich Rodriguez.
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