Franklin at LA Tech doesn't have overly impressive stats but his team has done well against ranked and BCS opponents. What kind of spread does he run?
Alrite people keep saying barney cotton... Who is he and why is it funny?
Is it darius and Jordan cottons dad? who used to play for iowa? Or is it barney from How i met your mother?
Looks to be pretty balanced. 435 passes and 482 rushes this season.
Is this a serious question?
The only thing we know for sure is that no one will know anything about it until it's announced. Does anyone keep a tighter lid on hires than Pollard, and the department as a whole?
I view this as an opportunity. Sometimes it seemed like there were too many moving pieces to our offense. We tried to do so many different things that we had trouble at times getting any consistency. In each of the last 3 seasons it's taken half the year to develop an offensive identity. Whoever we bring in needs to establish an identity from the start.
I'm not suggesting we scrap the spread. I don't think we will. But I don't think it would be all so apocalyptic if we did. Great playmakers make great plays in any system. JJ Moses wasn't that long ago, was he? He was way more involved in our conservative power run offense than any of our current crop of comparably sized and skilled group of WR's have been in our uptempo spread. We have enough speed and skill at most positions to run most offenses at least as effectively as we've been running ours. The problem will always be finding the right QB for the system. But we've got a full stable, and no one that's so firmly the leader (as Arnaud was) that they can't be usurped. Again, not saying we should go away from the spread, particularly one that runs the zone-read that seems to fit Barnett and our RB's. But the players will have an adjustment to make either way, and they will do it. It's an easier adjustment for youth and talent and we've got more of that on offense than we have for any previous change.
There's a lot of talk about needing a 'spread OC'. Hasn't the spread been around long enough that everyone's heard that the 'spread' refers to the distance between the offensive linemen. Whereas Zone Read would refer to the particular type of plays we try to run out of our spread formation. We could hire a 'spread OC' who is just as wrong (and maybe even moreso) for our current players than we could by hiring a pro-style OC. A minor and probably insignificant point, I know. I just get tired of the word 'spread offense' getting thrown around like it refers solely to the exciting wide-open uptempo offense that puts up video game numbers at places like Oregon and Okie State (and previously Texas Tech) Those three offenses are all spreads and all completely different from each other.
Can't read. Use the enter key to separate thoughts next time.The only thing we know for sure is that no one will know anything about it until it's announced. Does anyone keep a tighter lid on hires than Pollard, and the department as a whole?
I view this as an opportunity. Sometimes it seemed like there were too many moving pieces to our offense. We tried to do so many different things that we had trouble at times getting any consistency. In each of the last 3 seasons it's taken half the year to develop an offensive identity. Whoever we bring in needs to establish an identity from the start.
I'm not suggesting we scrap the spread. I don't think we will. But I don't think it would be all so apocalyptic if we did. Great playmakers make great plays in any system. JJ Moses wasn't that long ago, was he? He was way more involved in our conservative power run offense than any of our current crop of comparably sized and skilled group of WR's have been in our uptempo spread. We have enough speed and skill at most positions to run most offenses at least as effectively as we've been running ours. The problem will always be finding the right QB for the system. But we've got a full stable, and no one that's so firmly the leader (as Arnaud was) that they can't be usurped. Again, not saying we should go away from the spread, particularly one that runs the zone-read that seems to fit Barnett and our RB's. But the players will have an adjustment to make either way, and they will do it. It's an easier adjustment for youth and talent and we've got more of that on offense than we have for any previous change.
There's a lot of talk about needing a 'spread OC'. Hasn't the spread been around long enough that everyone's heard that the 'spread' refers to the distance between the offensive linemen. Whereas Zone Read would refer to the particular type of plays we try to run out of our spread formation. We could hire a 'spread OC' who is just as wrong (and maybe even moreso) for our current players than we could by hiring a pro-style OC. A minor and probably insignificant point, I know. I just get tired of the word 'spread offense' getting thrown around like it refers solely to the exciting wide-open uptempo offense that puts up video game numbers at places like Oregon and Okie State (and previously Texas Tech) Those three offenses are all spreads and all completely different from each other.
There's a lot of talk about needing a 'spread OC'. Hasn't the spread been around long enough that everyone's heard that the 'spread' refers to the distance between the offensive linemen. Whereas Zone Read would refer to the particular type of plays we try to run out of our spread formation.
ExactlyBecause getting to say you learned from Urban Meyer for a couple years sounds better than getting let go at ISU for perpetually finishing near the bottom of Big 12.
Here's the Northern Illionis OC at work...
Western Michigan @ Northern Illinois (2011) - YouTube
If Urban can find another Tim Tebow and Herman is as talented as Dan Mullens, sure.
Or mediocre college quarterback like Chris Leak. Urban won before Tebow and he will win after.
The spread has taken on the meaning and all the connotations you have given it. But, it has always referred to the amount of space between the offensive linemen. The idea was if the QB was in the shotgun, by the time he catches the snap the pocket is formed and he has built in passing lanes for the quick passes. The defense doesn't have time to get pressure and gets tired from running side to side and chasing in space. It does spread the defense out. Specifically the front 7. Wider passing and running lanes. But you need nimble O linemen who can operate in space and a QB that gets the ball out on time, and your RB/QB has to be of the quick variety to get through the holes, because the line isn't generally forming a wall for them to follow. These are the things that the various styles of spreads have in common. So 'the spread', in a general sense, refers just to these things, and it starts with the OLine. As unsexy as it is. The wider spread creates numerous weaknesses in the defense, which area the OC tries to attack distinguishes one spread from another. As defenses have evolved, offenses have added wrinkles here and there and have diverged to the point where Oregon and Auburn can play each other, both running a 'spread' offense, and the only thing they have in common is in fact that the OLine is wider than a traditional OLine.There was a big deal about this shortly after Texas Tech started lighting people up and everyone started trying to copy it. And I know our own coaches have alluded to the different angles that it creates for our running game.It's really only a sidebar to the main point that I was trying to make about how not just 'any old spread OC' would work. We don't have to stick to 'the spread', we can find other offensive systems that our current players can fit in. I think we will stay with something similar to what we have and try to keep some continuity. But talent will always shine, and young players will make
mistakes in whatever system they're learning.
The spread has taken on the meaning and all the connotations you have given it. But, it has always referred to the amount of space between the offensive linemen. The idea was if the QB was in the shotgun, by the time he catches the snap the pocket is formed and he has built in passing lanes for the quick passes. The defense doesn't have time to get pressure and gets tired from running side to side and chasing in space. It does spread the defense out. Specifically the front 7. Wider passing and running lanes. But you need nimble O linemen who can operate in space and a QB that gets the ball out on time, and your RB/QB has to be of the quick variety to get through the holes, because the line isn't generally forming a wall for them to follow. These are the things that the various styles of spreads have in common. So 'the spread', in a general sense, refers just to these things, and it starts with the OLine. As unsexy as it is.