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I think the wider field and three down rules naturally made for a more spread-friendly game. Bunching up your players and running for 3 or 4 yards when you’ve only got two plays to get 10 is counterproductive. The wider field means more space to cover so it only makes sense to use extra...

Wait really? Then you only know football how it is now. Probably the only major difference is the targeting rule. I started watching football in the 80’s when passing offenses started to take off. The older generation hated it. They didn’t like how DBs weren’t allowed to hold and grab receivers...

lol cool story man. Enjoy your old vhs tapes of 1970’s football. Just a heads up, it’s never going to be like that again.

You either adapt to the way the game is called or you lose to teams that do. It would be like telling your basketball team not to take two steps while driving because a lot of guys take three and don’t get called for traveling.

Lol if you think the rules have only been changed for the last 20 years. Literally every change since the 1800’s has been to either make the games higher scoring or to make the game less dangerous. I’m sure there were guys who hated the forward pass at the time too.

Great points. I guess it was a culmination of things that finally made him change it up

No, let me rephrase. Put Alabama’s skill position guys and offensive linemen on Clemson with Watson and they score 60.

Put Watson on that Alabama team in the spread and it’s a huge blowout.

It’s been experimented with at high school level with varying success but I believe the next big offensive innovation is hybrid players. Not just quarterbacks who can run and throw but multiple running/throwing quarterbacks on the field at the same time. Two quarterbacks in the backfield...

The big turning point was Clemson beating Alabama in the title game. Until that point Alabama was satisfied with just overwhelming teams with talent. They didn’t think they had to resort to “gimmicks” like the spread because they could beat everyone just lining up with two tight ends and running...

Worth the watch if you’re into the football history. Honestly, I could watch a whole docuseries on this crap

The video talks about all of it. The option routes which are run by everyone in college football now originated with the run and shoot. The Air Raid was originally developed by Hal Mumme at Iowa Weslyland and then Valdosta State. Mike Leach was an assistant at both spots. The zone read was...

Oh I know. I’m speaking strictly in terms of offensive innovation. A lot of the best offensive minds have had issues as head coaches.

Bama switched to a spread system a few years back and their quarterbacks have shattered every school record since.

Nobody’s offense is 100% unstoppable. Alabama wasn’t the first team that exposed the 1992 offensive line. Arizona shut them down earlier in the season. They just had no running game. Still Erickson had some success in college after Miami. He actually made Oregon State relevant and had some...

Erickson was a much better offensive football coach than he was a recruiter.

Much more in common with the veer and it’s definitely a spread system.

I think the fake injuries show just how desperate defenses have gotten to try anything to at least slow teams down. While I don’t think we’ll ever see any specific rule changes that try to make the game more like it used to be. (People love offense) They could enforce some rules a little better...

The shift to faster paced, spread offenses doesn’t mean that the power run game isn’t important. College teams still run the ball more than they pass it on average and you can still bludgeon your opponent to death with a battering ram running attack out of spread sets. I mean it’s not like...

Yes, the idea that ball control and time of possession can render even the most explosive offense moot. It’s literally the basis behind every triple option team because shortening the game gives the more talented team less of an advantage. You could probably win a title if you had Alabama’s...