BOL Round Table

If CNS and CKS didn't kill it they have certainly sent the architects of the spread back to the drawing board. The fly by night spread wannabes have vanished. Without a doubt they reshaped the way it has to be executed.

Well, let's see - he gave Urban Meyer "health problems" and made Malzahn's wife EVEN nuttier and ran both OUT of the SEC. Caused Colt McCoy to take a dive in the BCSCG (anyone care to argue) and he's beaten Mullen 54-17 in two years.

AND GUS WAS LIKE ... SHUT UP!

I'd say he's processed the spread.

I think Mizzou will be in for a rude awakening.

I can't wait to see how the newbies respond to real defense. I can see a few more offenses and coaches being processed in the near future.

Understatement.

spread temas will stay spread teams for the most part though. hell you cant win em all unless you are, well, us or whoever the national champ is that year. a spread team that lights it up 11 games out of the year and gets shut down by bama 1 game per year is still better than a team that goes 7-5

Let's be fair to the OP, though. Sticking with his premise, three of those haven't gotten a Saban bitchslap yet, while the 4th is married to the spread, because it's the head coach's entire identity. Like Malzahn, he has to take that offense with him where ever he goes.

Assuming you're replying to the other post. The point is that auburn didn't scrap the spread because it didn't match their vision for the future. They scrapped it because it left them.

Besides, they're very fond of claiming that ROFLoeffler is a spread-pro-shotgun-westcoast guru chimera.

I think the easiest path to winning 8 games a year and playing in Atlanta is to go with a spread because you aren't going head to head with Bama for talent and can find unique kids that fit your system.

What Nick Saban has done is to show that a pro-set offense with a nasty online combined with a multiple look on defense stocked with 4* & 5* across the board will beat the hell out of soft spread looks and nickel defenses. At the end of the day our guys are big, fast and disciplined, which beats small and fast every time.

Auburn now is going to have to recruit the same kids we are and hope that they can develop them at the same level as Saban does, which seems to me to be a good way to get your ass fired.

I think the SEC style spread option variety is pretty much dead. Most coaches probably prefer systems that don't require once in a blue moon talents like Tebow or Newton to run them, its just not convincing when you have to change jobs when those players leave.

The Big 12 style spread will probably persist a lot longer, in that conference it's not broke so they likely won't try to fix it.

It will be interesting to see if Meyer brings his normal spread offense to the Big 10 or if he has to modify it quite a bit due to the players he has.

If he has the players to run it he could blast that league for a few years

Yeah that's the spread we will continue to see throughout the country. The one where they have a QB who slings it rather than focuses on the run. If that QB has wheels, well that's just another advantage but its not ever the first option. The common factor in all the Big 12 spread teams is they feature a throwing offense built around a QB who can sling it to multiple WR sets.

We even see this variation in the NFL now, especially with teams like NE, GB, NO, teams who have a QB who can do this. That spread, will stick for a while longer but again even this one is contingent on a good throwing QB to pull it off more than any other position.