This article discusses Navy and Paul Johnson as Navy prepares to play I-AA powerhouse Delaware this weekend:
Navy is hardly a typical I-A program, however. As a service academy, it only admits students who fit Navy's rigorous academic demands. It does not award scholarships, as the academy pays the tuition and room and board of all its midshipmen.
In football, Navy has succeeded at the I-A level largely by perfecting Johnson's signature offense, the triple option.
"They find a weakness on you, and they just exploit it," Delaware coach K.C. Keeler said. "He's a master of how you're trying to stop him, these are things he's now going to attack you with."
Johnson's first Navy squad in 2002 went 2-10 but trounced Army 58-12. His subsequent teams have finished 8-5, 10-2, 8-4 and 9-4, beaten Army and gone to a bowl game.
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