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Belfry- Flexbone based triple/belly. In 03 and 04 they were in the wishbone.

DeSales- Wing T based. Smoked and mirrored by getting in I Pro sets & also some spread, but the concepts stayed the same.

Mayfield- Full spread, probably 50/50. But, let's be honest…Mayfield could win state championships in 1A running whatever they want. More than half of their state championships came running the wishbone, and I have news for people….the teams they beat THEN, were a helluva lot better than the teams they have beaten in recent years.

Scott County- True Delaware Wing T to the core. For that matter, so was Meade County…Meade County was a Wing T/Wishbone mix and might have thrown for 900 yards on the season.

Collins- Spread. However, they run the crap out of it too using old school Power schemes. More accurately, Power Read schemes (option football) & for those that were at the finals, they rrrreeeeaaallllllyyyyy hurt Highlands when they lined up in Unbalanced Power I (Not the I, but Dudley/Larkey Power I of old and now).


Bowling Green- Multiple. See Mayfield.

Central in the past isn't that flashy either. They are a 21 personnel team (2 backs, 1 TE) as far as what they hang their hat on, and will spread it out some when they need…but, even then, it's not that flashy.

NewCath- Same as Central.

Here is the deal, people are infatuated and mesmerized by people lining up in the Shotgun and spreading the field, when in fact they run the same schemes that have been ran since the beginning of time. It's just window dressing. That's it.

Oldschool football just isn't as "sexy". That's it.

All approaches work. The difference is players. Heck, two of the best programs in Georgia, Cambden County and Lowndes County are old school Wing-T teams. One of, if not the best team in Florida over the last 7-8 years, Apopka High School (8A program. Biggest class in FLA) is a Single Wing team (the offense that football was built around, back in the days of Pop Warner, Knute Rockne, etc).

Players everybody. PLAYERS. That's what makes any and all offenses go.

I find it amusing that when you see old school teams get beat, the first thing that comes out of people's mouths is "Lack of passing game, they need to spread it out." But when spread teams get beat…they just get beat, it's almost as if, "Oh, they are spread. Trying to do what we all see on TV, so it's ok." You never here, "They should've have tightened it up some, slowed the pace down and ran it more. There lack of run game hurt them." Never hear it. (granted, most of your successful Spread teams are those that make it a point to establish the run. And, one of the biggest misconceptions about the Spread is that teams don't run it, when they clearly do).

When Auburn won the title in 2010, they were a spread Wing T team. All those runs that Cam Newton had? Power and Bucksweep from the spread. This year, they were more zone read (option schemed) team. I heard Gus Malzahn talk at a clinic some years back, and he talked about his Wing T background and that all he is running at Auburn is just that, just from the shotgun and a lot smoke and mirrors. He talked about how everybody down there thinks he is running some wild, new looking offense…but, that all it was is Wing T based. He made a comment of something like, "But I couldn't tell everybody we were running the Wing T. Could you imagine the outlast there would have been at the first sign of failure? So I figured people like hearing "spread", so I just tell everybody it's the spread." He told a roomful of about about 100 coaches this.

People also need to come to grips with expectations. There are a reason some schools have never won state championships and likely never will. It goes waaaaaaayyy beyond the style of play they use.

I agree……but, having a Tim Couch record breaking QB helps. I've seen a lot of QB's over the years, and that kid was as good of a HS QB as I've ever seen. 5'10 w/ heels on and could make every throw there was…he could also move.

Didn't too to swift after him, though when they continued with that approach.

Couch was the best I've ever seen. I watched Whitley County play against him at Hyden and it was amazing what he was doing with a big linebacker hitting him hard nicker: