An adage in operations science is that throughput increases exponentially with bandwidth, so doubling the queues squares the throughput. It’s a rule of thumb but instructive relative to OL and why
@DMoney is so insistent that coaching changes can drive quick improvement. Think of spreading as a bandwidth improvement — it’s maybe the inverse but it reduces the pressure in the box. The perceived OL improvement can be an exponential function as a result, as the failure points, decisions required and the time required to hold blocks all decrease together.
That alone may be one of the key reasons why spread works so much better in college. With less time to train, young guys, OL turning over year to year, taking pressure off the entire unit can help everyone look better. Enos may have thought a lot about what they did at Alabama, but he didn’t seem to think enough about how OL dependent it was.