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Sounds vaguely familiar to what was spoken about the 'popgun' offense Urban Meyer was bringing back East with him from Utah.No way that gimmicky offense was going to work when it faced the better athletes on the defensive side of the ball in the SEC.What was their scoring average last year? 40-plus points a game or so? Damn, I would hate to see what they would do with all those athletes down here if they ran a 'real college offense.'That said, this Allbarn team does not have the athletes UF does - and may never (heck UF may never again have a roster full of offensive weapons like now). But the name of the game for an offensive coordinator (and this is where Homer Smith excelled - at least when Stallings did not pitch a hissy fit and hamstring Smith) is to get the ball to a player in space and with as few defenders around him as possible.I like the basic concept of 'the spread' in that you force defenders to cover the entire width of the field virtually every play. So right there you immediately get 1) one-on-one coverage on the edge receivers or 2) safeties and OLBs out of the box.Now, you have to have the horses to make it work, but I had rather have a 5.10-185 RB one-on-one with an SEC LBer than a 6.02-230 RB one-on-two SEC LBers. Unless maybe if that bigger back is Herschel Walker circa-UGa.
Sounds vaguely familiar to what was spoken about the 'popgun' offense Urban Meyer was bringing back East with him from Utah.
No way that gimmicky offense was going to work when it faced the better athletes on the defensive side of the ball in the SEC.
What was their scoring average last year? 40-plus points a game or so? Damn, I would hate to see what they would do with all those athletes down here if they ran a 'real college offense.'
That said, this Allbarn team does not have the athletes UF does - and may never (heck UF may never again have a roster full of offensive weapons like now). But the name of the game for an offensive coordinator (and this is where Homer Smith excelled - at least when Stallings did not pitch a hissy fit and hamstring Smith) is to get the ball to a player in space and with as few defenders around him as possible.
I like the basic concept of 'the spread' in that you force defenders to cover the entire width of the field virtually every play. So right there you immediately get 1) one-on-one coverage on the edge receivers or 2) safeties and OLBs out of the box.
Now, you have to have the horses to make it work, but I had rather have a 5.10-185 RB one-on-one with an SEC LBer than a 6.02-230 RB one-on-two SEC LBers. Unless maybe if that bigger back is Herschel Walker circa-UGa.
