Spread option is un-NFL and passe

[bukdow]

Good read about Urban Meyer and the perception/reality of the spread option's shortcomings, especially for players aspiring to the NFL.

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gator...-tebow-leaves/

[Glenn]

"un-NFL" must be terminology that you learned at university.

[bukdow]

"un-NFL" must be terminology that you learned at university.

Yeah, not the best phraseology. Nonetheless, the fact that the spread-option does not prepare kids for the NFL seems to be a fairly accepted notion. It works OK/well in college, but in the NFL its merely a gimmick, a la Mouse Davis.

Even in college, you still have to be able to physically control the line of scrimmage and must be able to run the ball in a balanced fashion.

[Glenn]

Can't say that I disagree with that.

[Hermy]

TO be fair though, that leaves a large pool of "non-nfl" talent players to pick from. Some of these guys were never going to be pro talents despite their physical gifts, they just don't fit the absolute mold.

[bukdow]

TO be fair though, that leaves a large pool of "non-nfl" talent players to pick from. Some of these guys were never going to be pro talents despite their physical gifts, they just don't fit the absolute mold.

Sure, but take a kid like Devin Gardner. He could be an NFL QB. However, the experience he is going to have at UM will do more to hinder his chances than anything.

[Hermy]

No doubt. Surely why Pryor went OSU, thier hybrid O would be a much better learning enviroment than a true spread.

That said, Pat White did much, much better in the draft than anyone would have presumed 4 years ago.

[b-diddy]

pat white is a first rounder, but for rich rodriguez? get some stats behind you, clown.

[Tahoe]

Spread offense might be ahead of its time in the NFL.

[Zip Goshboots]

It's simple: Do what you do better than anyone else and you win. As recently as 1997 Nebraska was running straight option and won and NC. And everybody else was passing.

99% of college football players don't make it in the NFL. That's a pretty hefty talent pool left over to pick from. And if Urban goes out and gets a dropback passer, he'll do it; if he sees a good spread QB that he feels he can be successful with, he'll get him. One thing is for sure: He has won 2 of the last three NC's playing spread option (the one Rich Rodriguez invented)--so he's being a bit disingenuous there.