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I wish more college programs would run pro style offenses. While I'm a fan of The OSU and will chear for every victory, I'm not a fan of the spread that Urban will be bringing to the program. The way I see it college ball is just a farm program for the pro game. The more big time college programs that run real O's the more real pro prospects we have being fed into the system.
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I am confused. Tressel has been running a spread-offense since Troy Smith.
Yes, Urban will run more spread-option plays, but the passing game is largely the same that we have been seeing (shotgun snaps, 4-5 WR sets, OL split wide, etc).
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I was more responding to Peen's dissatisfaction of Florida going to a pro style now that Urban has left. Personally I'd prefer that Ohio State run a pro style too. Along with all the other big boy programs. Leave the spread to the West Virginia's, Army's, and Georgia Tech's (etc) of the world.
Again, too me, college ball is about creating pro ball athletes. QB's that run pro style O's in college will be better suited to playing, and succeeding, on Sundays. That and it's far easier to project college QB's that play pro style O's than it is the ones that run the spread. See Luck compared to what we think we see with RG3. Can RG3 take a snap from under center? We don't know. Why? Because he's played in a college O that makes projection difficult.
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Urban got us some serious studs on the front 7. It will be filthy in 2-3 years. Our pass rush will be insane.
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I am confused. Tressel has been running a spread-offense since Troy Smith.
What Tressell ran and what Meyer will run are night and day.
I suppose you could call both "spread" offenses but Meyer has heavily run the read option at every one of his college stops. I highly doubt he's going to shift to some pro-style power run game when he gets to OSU. He's going to run what he knows.
He'll make adjustments but I'd expect the leading rusher at OSU to be the QB, much like it was when Michigan ran the same offense under Rodriguez. It's set up to get the QB the majority of the carries because of the +1 advantage on such play calls.
Meyer will have some adjusted schemes but I'd bet my life that his bread and butter will feature the QB over the RB in a majority of instances. He's never had a RB run for 1,000 yards, so I'd expect that trend to continue with Ohio State. His offensive ground schemes lean heavily on the QB, much like Rodriguez's did.
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He will adjust the scheme to fit the players he has while he recruits in the players he wants. At least that is what he should do.
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One more thing to note. RichRod and Meyer's offense are also night and day. Meyer married the spread-option and the spread-offense passing attack. Ohio State WRs will have little to change from what they run (maybe terminology). RichRod ran the more traditional spread-veer (as I call it at least) and the WRs did not have nearly the short underneath routes that they do in Meyer's system.
Not saying either is better, they both obviously have been successful on offense everywhere they have gone, just different.
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