I listen to a couple college football podcasts, and one I like is called Barton & Bud (the Barton is Barton Simmons, director of recruiting at TOS).
They had a discussion on their last pod about the state of college football now that the spread has morphed from the contrarian offense to the 'norm' that most schools use. The spread of course has its foundation in the principle that smaller schools couldn't get as big or strong of guys to play for them. The spread offense was a tool smaller schools could use to level the playing field somewhat.
On the podcast, they kinda speculated on when some schools would start shifting identity back towards a power run offense to counter the current college football landscape.
It got me thinking: what's the next "contrarian" offense? Put on your creative hat and design a revolutionary offense. Of course, the triple option is always there as an equalizer that smaller schools and military academies can use. But is there something different? What type of pie-in-the-sky offense would you like to see or even realistically could see, once someone's brave enough to try it? After all, with the shutdown, coaches have had a lot of free time on their hands to scheme.
They had a discussion on their last pod about the state of college football now that the spread has morphed from the contrarian offense to the 'norm' that most schools use. The spread of course has its foundation in the principle that smaller schools couldn't get as big or strong of guys to play for them. The spread offense was a tool smaller schools could use to level the playing field somewhat.
On the podcast, they kinda speculated on when some schools would start shifting identity back towards a power run offense to counter the current college football landscape.
It got me thinking: what's the next "contrarian" offense? Put on your creative hat and design a revolutionary offense. Of course, the triple option is always there as an equalizer that smaller schools and military academies can use. But is there something different? What type of pie-in-the-sky offense would you like to see or even realistically could see, once someone's brave enough to try it? After all, with the shutdown, coaches have had a lot of free time on their hands to scheme.