The old timers in California’s Central Valley still refer to it as la mosca. “That means ‘the fly’ in Spanish,” said Jesse Ortega. Gene Beck’s creation — the fly offense — lives here still, preserved ...

Willamette University's Mark Speckman, the foremost authority on the fly offense, jokes that the system that defines him is like a "useless invention." Speckman remains the nation's only college coach ...