Wcal observer;1663907 wrote:I agree completely. Scrap the spread! Your wasting time, taking unnecessary risks, and not utilizing all of your weapons. I will tell you the honest truth. If Riebe didn't go down that night, it would have been a massacre. They were sitting on every bubble, and slip screen, and were getting pressure on the QB. The injury forced you to go out of character, and it was successful for the most part. Maybe it took a backwards way to get here, but that was my point all along. You have some talent, maybe not loaded, but there is some there. The question is are you maximizing it? Not with the spread your not. What you suggested makes much more sense!
Smithville's resurgence is centered on the Wing T, Chippewa took the league by storm with the Double Wing (a little spread nuisances here and there), Hillsdale is consistent with midline. Triway is successful with the spread because of the number if receivers they have, and a QB who is extremely quick at getting the ball out. Personal opinion, but the spread is a joke at MOST small schools because of the lack of athletes that is needed to run it properly.
I will agree that the spread is a joke at MOST schools. It is a fad, that defenses have come around to defending. Unless you out-athlete teams with your skill players, you are teaching players to be soft with the zone blocking schemes. It still upsets me that in the most important play of Ohio State's season last year against Michigan State on 4th and short, they run the stinking option out of the spread and come up short. Physical football, pound it in for a first down and march on. Nope.
Smithville is running the old school version of the Wing-T, Chippewa is running the the Wing-T out of the pistol and Hilldale is midline. They play physical football, run the ball and play defense and they are having success. It's fun to watch. Too many people get caught up in the fancy 5-wide bubble screens, chuck the ball 50 times a game, that while they may have success against teams that they have superior talent then, a physical team is going to punch them in the mouth and they won't have an answer for it. There is a reason that these offenses have stood the test of time.