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/
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/
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"un-NFL" must be terminology that you learned at university.
Find a new slant.
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.Originally Posted by Glan
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.
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Can't say that I disagree with that.
Find a new slant.
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.Originally Posted by Hermy
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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.
pat white is a first rounder, but for rich rodriguez? get some stats behind you, clown.
Spread offense might be ahead of its time in the NFL.
Players meeting my ASS!
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.
Winning breeds confidence. Losing breeds reality.
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