Will the Spread work at State?
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It can work at state but the sec defenses are going to get more and more comfortable defending it now that they will see it more often.
"Along with winning 122 games in 12 seasons at Florida--far and away the most of any coach in school history--Spurrier is also credited with changing the way the SEC played offense. Spurrier employed a pass-oriented offense in contrast to the ball control, rush-oriented offenses that were traditionally found in the SEC. His innovative offensive scheme forced many in the conference to change their offensive and defensive playcalling."
Of the top 11 teams in the country in total offense last season, eight ran some variation of the modern "spread offense" - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ve.revolution/index.html)
Five animated plays from Meyer, Petrino, Leach, Peterson, Spurrier
Virtual Playbook - Really neat LINK (http://sportsillustrated....tual.playbook/index.html)
Urban Meyer Spread Option-LINK (http://sportsillustrated....offense.meyer/index.html)
Petrino Power Spread Attack - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.petrino/index.html1)
Mike Leach Aerial Assault - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....offense.leach/index.html)
Boise State Hawkins Chameleon Offense - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.petersen/index.html)
Steve Spurrier **** N Fire Offense - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.spurrier/index.html)
Why don't Vandy and Miss State run it? Or maybe - when will they?
The SEC may see a lot of this offense, and right soon.
He runs the spread guy
Five animated plays from Meyer, Petrino, Leach, Peterson, Spurrier
Virtual Playbook - Really neat LINK (http://sportsillustrated....tual.playbook/index.html)
Urban Meyer Spread Option-LINK (http://sportsillustrated....offense.meyer/index.html)
Petrino Power Spread Attack - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.petrino/index.html1)
Mike Leach Aerial Assault - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....offense.leach/index.html)
Boise State Hawkins Chameleon Offense - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.petersen/index.html)
Steve Spurrier **** N Fire Offense - LINK (http://sportsillustrated....ense.spurrier/index.html)
Why don't Vandy and Miss State run it? Or maybe - when will they?
The SEC may see a lot of this offense, and right soon.
He runs the spread guy
Russell in the same formation as he ran in Meridian and we have 4-5 above average wide outs we are going to light up the scoreboard. Russell has some of the best mechanics throwing the ball i have seen from a high school QB in this state in 25 years. Not only can he throw the Farve fastball on deep outs but his fade pass has great touch and accuracy.
I mean, with the power I, you can stack the box and make a crappy QB beat you with the pass. If a team cannot run then you drop more in coverage. With the spread you still dont have a single approach to slowing it down. The "spread" is adaptable to your athlete's abilities. Sure you can game plan for it, but it still creates mismatches.
He understands that he is going to have to work w/ bringing the best out of the players he has to work w/ now, & will adapt his offensive scheme / concept to fit our players & put them in the best possible position to succeed on the offensive side of the ball & win as many games as they can.
my interpretation of his comments on offense today: you can have a concept that you want to go w/ on the offensive side of the ball, but you have to adapt it to the players you have.
That would be the polar opposite of another coach whose desire was to ignore the abilities of his players, & stubbornly force offensive sets that apparently had no regard for players abilities
my interpretation of his comments on offense today: you can have a concept that you want to go w/ on the offensive side of the ball, but you have to adapt it to the players you have.
That would be the polar opposite of another coach whose desire was to ignore the abilities of his players, & stubbornly force offensive sets that apparently had no regard for players abilities
Spurrier's offense, or the Fun 'n Gun, was not a spread offense, or even a variation of the spread. It involved stretching, not spreading, the field. What made the offense so lethal, was there ability to throw deep out of offensive sets that you would consider to be "run sets", like I-Formation, One Back Sets, with tight-ends, etc. The fact that they ran those type formations most often indicates that is was not a spread offense. It was a conventional offense, with really good QB's and receivers that relied alot on timing.
Ask yourself this: can it be any worse than what we have seen the past 8 years?
Bumphis, Patterson, Thames, Smith, Russell, Rob Elliott, Terrance Davis and Lampley are the type of guys that can make it work. It's up to Mullen to sign them.
Bumphis, Patterson, Thames, Smith, Russell, Rob Elliott, Terrance Davis and Lampley are the type of guys that can make it work. It's up to Mullen to sign them.