re: D Craig on Mobile radio RE "spread offense"

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really? i don't see that. You can pass or run out of spread formations and motions. How can anyone who watches any football not see the power spread/power read run at Florida under CUM, Ohio State under CUM and Auburn under malzahn? How could anyone not see the Spread Option being run by Chip Kelly at Oregon before? I cannot believe all they saw was Mizzou's spread passing under chase daniel or mike leach's air raid or any other spread passing game.

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Because those people are whiny old school type folks that only want pocket passers and pro style. You'll notice them when they say anything about;

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1. Never having a defense
- Ohio St begs to differ

2. Throwing all the time
- Again Ohio St, Auburn, Baylor, Oregon, etc, run WAY more than they throw

3. Gimmicky offense
- What's gimmicky about putting your players in space, using a lot of misdirection, and forcing the defense to cover the entire field? Sure the HUNH could be considered "gimmicky", but I don't see it that way. The only thing I see as gimmicky, is trick plays.

Go look up the top group of 5 teams, and the top power 5 teams, and see what type of offense they run. See the type of QBs they implement. The only way you can get away with running a pro style nowadays is to have ridiculous talent and an extremely good defense. You aren't going to get where you want to go running an offense that is clearly out of date at the college level unless you're team is extremely talented and you have a very talented QB coach.

Louisiana is filled with option and spread offenses with dual threat QBs at the high school level. Texas is filled with spread offenses with dual threat and mobile QBs at the high school level. Kids have been running these systems for years now which makes a lot of them more successful as freshmen and redshirt freshman in college because it's a lot easier to grasp. LSU has fought against the current for far too long. It's time to step into modern college football and play to your regional recruiting strengths.

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So O lied when he said he wants a running QB?

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no he didn't its hard to run the ball if your qb is a statue. the point is to have the linebackers and def ends reacting to the qb and the running backs. if you have a statue back there or your traditional pro-style qb then it doesn't work. they just react to the running back and your play goes nowhere. but you still need a qb who can throw the ball occasionally hence the term dual threat.

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What's gimmicky about putting your players in space, using a lot of misdirection, and forcing the defense to cover the entire field?

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I don't really like these offenses because much of their success is predicated on defeating the defense through scheme vs. skill. And in many cases, when the defense isn't fooled on a play, the play has very little chance of success. But it is what it is because QB's aren't growing up really learning the position and how to manage the offense / read a defense.

Anyone with a pea brain understood this from the get-go.
This subject got so overly lopsided it's not funny.
Clowns be clowns.