[Fly Like a Duck]

All of you people wanting a different offense, do you realize how similar all of this window dressing, flashy-new sh!t, etc. is to old school attacks?

I love the spread stuff, don't get me wrong, LOVE it...but, I'm just continually blown away at the mindset that if you:

1) Take TE's and split them out about 8 yards
2) Take RB's and split them out about 5 yards to a slot position
3) Take your QB, move him back 5 yards to take the snap
4) Take your 3rd RB, and put him 5 yards back beside the QB or behind him another yd (pistol)

...that, BOOM, you have this new, wild, amazing way to play football

Know what I'd like to see and what's really exciting? Somebody take the wishbone, wing't, etc (traditional 3 back offenses) and throw the ball deep off play action & screens off of those. Talk about fun football. That, my good men is some football that you don't see anymore.

It's like this infatuation with "The Read Option" lol..kills me...know what the difference is between that and old school Triple option? Nothing, except for who the actual READ man is (b/c both READ defenders)...one is frontside, the other is the backside DE. Both can be Triple Option.

Now, with the "H" back systems, it's really got everybody screwed up. The "H" back in these spread systems is nothing more than an old school "Blocking Back" in the Single Wing (oldest system in football). They block. They block. They block. They block. They run the ball. They block. They block. They block. They block. They block. They get thrown to...repeat.

Anyway, my rant.

By the way. Do any of you know as to why these Spread concepts are far more popular in the deep south than they are up north (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania)? It has EVERYTHING to do with weather.

I had some friends of mine who were at The Tony Franklin System Clinic this past Saturday (great system..goes without saying), and I asked who were the "showcase schools" (success storied programs of the year or past years)...they said, mostly teams from Alabama, Texas, etc.

So, I said...both from the south, right? Check. And one, not only in the south, but more than likely plays everyone of it's games on Turf fields (Texas)? Check.

I told my buddies to ask them about the teams north of the Ohio River. Matter of fact, I asked him how many teams North of the Ohio were there that he knew of...I think he counted two; whereas it was flooded from teams in the south.

That spread, pretty stuff you see on TV, on turf...in warm weather areas, with world class athletes and WORLD CLASS QB's looks a helluva lot different than it does here in KY when it starts dropping below 40 and WET come November.