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"Spread offense" may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball.
The spread offense is an offensive scheme in American and Canadian football that is used at every level of the game including professional (NFL, CFL), college (NCAA, NAIA, CIS), and high school programs across America and Canada. The spread offense begins with the quarterback in the shotgun formation most of the time, and often employs a no-huddle approach. The fundamental nature of the spread offense involves spreading the field horizontally using 3, 4, and even 5-receiver sets. Some implementations of the spread also feature wide splits between the offensive linemen. The object of the spread offense is to open up multiple vertical seams for both the running and passing game to exploit, as the defense is forced to spread itself thin across the field (a "horizontal stretch") to cover everyone.
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1 Basic Philosophy
2 History
3 NFL
4 High school
5 Defensive reaction
6 References
7 External links
[edit]Basic Philosophy
There are many forms of the spread system. One of the extreme versions is the pass-oriented "Air Raid" typified by Kevin Sumlin's Houston Cougars, Mike Gundy's Oklahoma State Cowboys, Randy Edsall's Maryland Terrapins operated by Gary Crowton, Ruffin McNeill's East Carolina Pirates, Dana Holgorsen's West Virginia Mountaineers, Gary Pinkel's Missouri Tigers, Tommy Tuberville's Texas Tech Red Raiders and Todd Graham's Pittsburgh Panthers. This version employs multiple spread sets and is heavily reliant on the quarterback and coaches being able to call the appropriate play at the line of scrimmage based on how the defense sets up. Louisiana Tech head coach Sonny Dykes, who coached under Mike Leach at Texas Tech, uses a variant of the pass-oriented spread system that makes more use of the tight end and running backs.
The other extreme is the spread option - consisting of a slot receiver, the tailback, and an agile quarterback - used by Gene Chizik at Auburn, Rich Rodriguez at Arizona, Urban Meyer at Utah and Florida, Dan Mullen at Mississippi State, Chip Kelly at Oregon, and Jerry Moore at Appalachian State. Despite the multi-receiver sets, the spread option is a run-first scheme that requires a quarterback that is comfortable carrying the ball, a mobile offensive line that can effectively pull and trap, and receivers that can hold their blocks. Its essence is misdirection, making it effectively the old triple option, except that it utilizes spread sets. The quarterback must be able to read the defensive end and determine whether he is collapsing down the line or playing up-field containment in order to determine the proper play to make with the ball.
A third version of the spread offense is the Pistol offense which is used by Chris Ault's Nevada Wolf Pack, as well as Rick Neuheisel's UCLA Bruins and some high schools across the nation. The Pistol focuses on using the run with many offensive players, and it calls for the quarterback to line up about three yards behind the center and take a short shotgun snap at the start of each play.
[edit]History
Under Kevin Sumlin, the Houston Cougars are well known for using the spread offense.
The father of the spread offense is Rusty Russell, a graduate of Howard Payne University, in Brownwood, Texas, and coach of Fort Worth's Masonic Home and School for orphaned boys. Russell began coaching Masonic Home in 1927, and due to the fact that his teams were often over matched physically by other schools, they were called the "Mighty Mites". While there, he deployed the earliest form of a spread offense to great success.[1] Russell's team is the subject of a book by author Jim Dent entitled, Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football.[2]
In 1952 TCU coaching legend Leo "Dutch" Meyer wrote a book entitled Spread Formation Football, detailing his ideas about football formations, in which the first sentence was, "Spread formations are not new to football."[3]
Former Middletown (Ohio) High School football coach Glenn "Tiger" Ellison is hailed by some as the real father.[4] His version is known as the Run & Shoot offense; however, the scheme (which was originally started as a run-first offense in 1958) has evolved over the past 45 years into a much more complex scheme. Its first evolution came about in 1962 when former Portland State coach and later Hawaii receivers coach Darell "Mouse" Davis adapted Ellison's philosophy to create a more pass-oriented version. The "Spread Offense" emerged in the US in the mid to late 80's with coaches trying to get the benefits of the Run & Shoot (spreading out defenses and dictating defensive personnel with a 4 receiver set) without having to rely as much on QBs, receivers, and running backs making the correct reads on every play. The Spread allows coaches to be more involved in each play rather than the Run & Shoot which helps protect teams from bad decision making.
While early versions of the spread were sometimes quite limited, modern coaches like Joe Tiller (Purdue), Jerry Moore (Appalachian State), Mike Leach (Texas Tech), Rich Rodriguez (West Virginia and Michigan), and Chip Kelly (Oregon) and most recently Urban Meyer (Florida) have taken this run and shoot variant to a new level. High school coaches across the nation have adapted some version of this scheme with great success, most notably Todd Dodge at Southlake Carroll High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area (now at University of Pittsburgh), Stan Weinke at Tuscola High School in Illinois , Art Briles at Stephenville High School in Central Texas (now at Baylor), Gus Malzahn at Springdale High School in Arkansas (later offensive coordinator at the nearby University of Arkansas and now in the same position at Auburn), and Phil Mauro at Edgewood High school in Ohio. Rush Propst using it won 5 state titles at Hoover High School in Alabama. Due to Propst success many teams in Alabama run the spread. However, Propst's offense was created by consultant (now offensive coodinator at Louisiana Tech) Tony Franklin.
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I think he was buying back 4% of his original 6% UCLA bet. He now has UCLA for 2%.
Minus the juice which I am not sure ever ges calculated...never seefractional wins/loses :0corn
Thanks Thunder, after your well written reasons on NIU and UCLA, I bet them both. It wasnt near as pretty or easy as you told me it would be, just kidding, but it was TWO much needed winners.
Thanks!!!!
Thanks!!!!
NIU was a push if you were lucky enought to get 3. You must be talking about the 2nd half play.
didnt buy down anyTHING LINED OPENED AT 13.5 CLOSED AT 16 IN SOME PLACES UT WAS A HALTIME PLAY WHICH LOST
Good morning Thunder. I really like a couple of the meaningless games today in BYU -8 and K State -10 1/2. Any thoughts? I know it's senior day for Hawaii, but that includes their starting QB who is out for the year. BYU has been playing really well and when they win it's been by a wide margin for the most part.
