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Everyone will be running the spread within 7 years
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:43 am
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:43 am
It's almost impossible to stop when executed right. This is a sea change like in the 80s-90's when everybody went to a pro set passing offense and all the option coaches were left in the dust.
The rules have changed. HS quarterbacks are better than ever and come in ready to plug-and-play. the best athletes want to catch touchdowns, not play defense for the most part. Effing Baylor has been a top 5 offense the last two years recruiting mostly 2-star athletes.
Here's a NY Times article about Mike Leach from 2005(it's long). He describes his philosophy and in a nut shell, when you bunch players together it's easier for the defense to make stops. When you spread everybody out you use more of the field and logic dictates the ball carrier will have more space to run before he encounters his first defender.
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The rules have changed. HS quarterbacks are better than ever and come in ready to plug-and-play. the best athletes want to catch touchdowns, not play defense for the most part. Effing Baylor has been a top 5 offense the last two years recruiting mostly 2-star athletes.
Here's a NY Times article about Mike Leach from 2005(it's long). He describes his philosophy and in a nut shell, when you bunch players together it's easier for the defense to make stops. When you spread everybody out you use more of the field and logic dictates the ball carrier will have more space to run before he encounters his first defender.
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A coach cannot change the shape of the football field, but he can change its effective size. And if he can alter the environment, even slightly, he alters the environment's system of rewards and punishments. He can put 330-pound defensive linemen on the fast track to obsolescence and turn a pass-catching tailback into the holder of N.C.A.A. records.
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They may or may not have been fatter - Leach insists they were - but their bodies were clearly designed for a different sort of football game than this frenetic one.
This post was edited on 12/1/12 at 11:49 am
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Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:44 am to John Maplethorpe
quote:No.
Everyone will be running the spread within 7 years
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:45 am to John Maplethorpe
shut the frick up john
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:45 am to John Maplethorpe
Nope.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:46 am to John Maplethorpe
This was said 15 years ago.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:46 am to John Maplethorpe
Swing and a miss, pardner.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:47 am to John Maplethorpe
I'll bump this thread in 7 years to say I told you so
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:48 am to John Maplethorpe
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No one will be running the spread within 7 years
FIFY
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:48 am to John Maplethorpe
Maybe at places that are talent deficient, but not at places like bama.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:48 am to John Maplethorpe
That cocksucking Ohio State coach proved it cannot work consistently in the SEC.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:52 am to John Maplethorpe
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John Maplethorpe
put down the drink son
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:52 am to John Maplethorpe
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It's almost impossible to stop when executed right.
Just like the triple option. And the wishbone.
And every other offensive scheme ever developed.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:53 am to John Maplethorpe
Not everyone but a lot more teams will be, a couple of traditional power running teams will as well.
Also
at people comparing the spread to the wishbone and triple o.
Also
at people comparing the spread to the wishbone and triple o. This post was edited on 12/1/12 at 11:56 am
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:53 am to John Maplethorpe
False.
Yes there will be a couple more big time programs that run it, but to say everyone is short sided. The spread offense is not some revelation from the past couple of years. There have been lots of variations of it in the past 20 years, some successful and some not.
Yes there will be a couple more big time programs that run it, but to say everyone is short sided. The spread offense is not some revelation from the past couple of years. There have been lots of variations of it in the past 20 years, some successful and some not.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:54 am to John Maplethorpe
This is more evidence that Alabama needs to save college football by winning a third national championship in four years with a pro-style offense.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:55 am to John Maplethorpe
Saban will have spread offenses banned within 3 years if he has to keep playing them
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:56 am to John Maplethorpe
This thread went sideways on you, son.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:56 am to John Maplethorpe
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Everyone will be running the spread within 7 years
No they won't.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:59 am to John Maplethorpe
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It's almost impossible to stop when executed right.
Posted on 12/1/12 at 11:59 am to John Maplethorpe
Leach ran the same offense at Kentucky in the early 00s. Then Tebow and Co. at Florida. But neither has made a sweeping change across the conference. And the conference has still been wildly successful.
So I don't see everyone running the spread within 7 years.
So I don't see everyone running the spread within 7 years.
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