What do you think of Spread / Option?

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What do you think of the UF, WVU option style offense? Would you like to se UT go to this in the future? I have mixed feelings about it. It seems to be pretty hard to defend.
 
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would love to try something new...you know something not 30 years old
 
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I don't believe the spread is the way college football teams have to go to be successful. But like I40, I want something new. I'm not even sold on our offense not working. A better o-line would open the running game and having receivers that could run deep routes and get separation would stretch the field tremendously. Having the guts to go down the field would also help. Being able to effectively pull off end arounds, reverses, direct snaps to our athletes would work to.
 
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I like the spread offense, but a well coached, disciplined, and fast defense can shut it down.

Too bad we don't have that defense.
 
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I'm not a huge fan of it myself.


The spread is not a necessity. Having a line that can runblock would be nice.
 
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#6
Give me a sound blocking and tackling team. The schemes take care of themselves.
 
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that being said, there's nothing like watching every team in hampton roads, va use it. There's a chance to score every play
 
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#9
Spread offense is just a fad. Defenses will figure it out and it that will not stop it but will limit the effectiveness and its big play ability.

Give the I-form and pound the rock
 
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#10
I like the Pro Set offense you just need the discipline to execute, and to make the proper audibles and progressions. The Spread option is too gimmicky for my taste
 
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tnjed99 said:
I like the Pro Set offense you just need the discipline to execute, and to make the proper audibles and progressions. The Spread option is too gimmicky for my taste
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It doesn't have to be gimmicky to work. A lot of teams just like using the trick plays.
 
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The spread is a short term, gimmick offense. A great D can shut it down, like any other offense. It won't last.
 
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The spread is a gimmick offense....those who remember the "Run and SHoot" and the "west coast" offenses, that were once the rage of the football world, only to fall by the wayside after defenses learned how to defend them.

Its still a game about smack them in the mouth, no matter what offense you use.
 
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IMO it works when you have defensive coordinators trying to defend it with a traditional defense like a 4-3-4 instead of using a 3-3-5 or a 4-2-5 package.

Meyer spreads the field the make it easier to run the ball using the option.
 
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Like it or not, I'm afraid we are about to start seeing a whole lot of it from lots of teams. I guess we will find out what a rock solid defense can do with it when UF plays LSU. I personally think UF is going to win that game. (as much as I hate to admit it)
 
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whatever offense best suits the best players that you can put put on the field is the best offense, IMO. I think Urban Meyer fully understands this as do some other SEC coaches. Anyone who cannot adapt is eventually going to get snakebit by not being able to recruit the type of players that they need for thier scheme and wind up trying to bang square pegs into round holes.
 
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Cut the "gimmick" crap, really. It's basically an updated version of the single wing, which is about as "obsolete" as it gets.

The best offense is one that suits the personnel. The contrarian in me loves running something that no one else does, thus making it exponentially tougher for a defense to learn and gameplan for in a single week. If running a split-T formation suits the personnel, then it gets run. It's not a difficult concept.

Sherlock Holmes once observed that the ultimate folly is to theorize before one has facts; inevitably one begins to twist facts to suit theories rather than theories to suit facts. Imagine a player's abilities as "facts", since it's really not going to magically evolve (no magic dust comments here, please). An offensive scheme is a theory that must be constantly adjusted to suit the concrete facts of available talent.

I love various offensive systems and feel comfortable installing them at any level. But if there's a mismatch between what they can do and what I want them to do, we're going nowhere. If I have seven or eight top level receivers, there's no way a wing-T is going in. Yet I see this all the time.
 
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