Complex sentence: The season prior, he had sent assistants to Nevada to learn the pistol offense, he hoped to envisioned using the pistol and the spread, scrapping the fullback dive for the zone-read run.
Split into simpler sentences: The season prior, he had sent assistants to Nevada to learn the pistol offense. Solich planned to use the pistol and the spread, scrapping the fullback dive for the zone-read run.