Working at the high school level, Lindsey was also a teacher in high school, so he specializes in really mentoring his players. But when it’s come to scheme, he’s been all over the place in some regard.

He was part of high schools that ran the Wing-T and the Air Raid, but once he got to college and cut his teeth for awhile, he learned from Todd Monken and Gus Malzahn and also counted Dana Holgorsen among his friends, and took pieces from all of them. But he really prioritized the Air Raid early in his college coaching tenure, working to innovate from that scheme.

After his time at Arizona State under Todd Graham, Lindsey reunited with Malzahn at Auburn where he oversaw Jarrett Stidham in 2017 and helped lead the Tigers to having 3,000 yards passing and 3,000 yards rushing in the same year. So if Sherrone Moore wanted balance, Lindsey understands the assignment.

According to Inside Carolina Football, Lindsey looks to have an offense not dissimilar from that run by Lincoln Riley.

Lindsey points to Lincoln Riley’s offense, first at Oklahoma and now at USC, as the prototype for his offensive preferences.

He also said after arriving in Chapel Hill:

“The concepts are the concepts, it doesn’t really matter what you call them,” Lindsey said. “But I think if I had to describe myself, it would be that we’re going to build the offense around the players’ strengths of who we have. Obviously, we’ve got Drake Maye, so the passing game is going to be heavily involved, and we’re going to do the same stuff that they’ve done here. But my goal is for us to be able to run the ball a little better when we want to run it and continue to marry up the things that I think fit our personnel, even in the run scheme.”

He has tended to run zone but isn’t married to zone concepts in terms of the run game, more wanting to fit the scheme to the players, instead of vice versa — as he notes in the quote above.