The Spread Offense
A question for fellow M fans:
My son is prepping for his soph year for his HS team. Most likely he will start at center and nose guard. In a weight room recently his coach (who historically has run a pro style offense for 10 years) has announced that they will begin changing to some form of a spread. The current players have been together since they were in rocket and have a tremendous amount of speed but lack above average size for the most part. I (along with others in the city) have preached this idea for some time.
Coaches idea is to begin now to educate these kids on the basics of the spread but for the most part does not have direct experience with it on the field. He understands that in order to successfully install this it will take patience and time with his players. The staff wants to start by studying.
Is anybody aware of any written materials on the subject that this team can begin reading now in order to mentally prepare for this change?
Just looking for ideas..........thanks for your input.
http://books.google.com/books?id=giTnIHQU2wMC&printsec=frontcover#v=one…
Check out the section by Gregg Brandon and Greg Studrawa. This section is about running four receivers and focuses on the skill players more than anything. It was written when Brandon was the head coach at Bowling Green and Studrawa was OC. During those years, BGSU was one of the top offenses in the country and ran a wide spread offense with great talent on the outside at receiver, but largely the spread was reinforced with a power tailback who forced defenses to leave seven in the box.
FWIW ... Brandon was Urban Meyer's first OC and really deserves a great amount of credit for pushing the spread offense to where it is right now.
Leo "Dutch" Meyers, thought to be the father of the spread, wrote a book called "Spread Formation Football." It's a little old and there have been a ton of improvements on it, but it's a good place to start.
There's a bunch of articles at www.spreadoffense.com.
Also, here's a link to the results page for a YouTube search for "rich rodriguez spread offense," which has some of his chalk talk and stuff on his Glenville teams: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rich+rodriguez+spread+offen…
Also, I'm not sure how to dig back very well, but Brian and diarists have definitely done examinations of particular spread schemes and plays. These will be worth searching for because they'll be pretty accessible and will build a foundation of understanding.
Good luck on the switch. Do you know if they are going to run a Michigan spread which is mostly running. Or are they going to run a pass first spread like Missouri or Texas.
towards the M spread. They have shifty and quick rb's. 5'6" about 160-165 along the lines of a VS (high school version).
Tell him to hurry to A2 and catch the rest of the coach's clinic!
The Spread, like Zed, is Dead. I know this because Gary Danielson told me.
By deciding to adopt the spread, the coach has given up any chance that this high school team had of winning the Big Ten.
...they will still beat Minnesota.
fess up... are you the coach? :)
No coach here mon.....Whattagwan mon?? Just an interested pop.
The offensive philosophy is spreadicated on getting athletes the ball in space
Its not like an NFL team will ever use a variation of the spread.............pay no attention to the two teams in the super bowl. That didn't happen.