Football Philosphy.

[cyborg]

When Coach came he said he wanted he wanted to run a spread offense. ISU did not have the players to compete with the power teams. He wanted to use the whole width of the field. He wanted to put his play makers into one on one situations. ISU recruited players for the spread. They have a lot of good receivers and small quick running backs. While Coach Rhoads has said he planned to use the spread, at heart his comfort and history is with power football. An example would be on third and short, a spread team would have at least 4 wideouts with one back. Then the defense would determine what the offense does. The offense would expect to use a quick pass, but if there is only 5 in the box for the defense, then they could audible to a run. The usual ISU play is to bring in a tight end or two and run between the tackles. ISU has not done well in short yardage situations lately. Another example is that spread teams use their passing attacks to open up the running game. For some reason the past few years, it has seemed that ISU has tried to use the running game to set up the passing game, and they can not get the running game established first. While many fans on here hate the spread, I think that the coaches have to fully commit to running a spread, especially since the players they have recruited are more suitable to play in a spread system.

 

[Tre4ISU]

When Coach came he said he wanted he wanted to run a spread offense. ISU did not have the players to compete with the power teams. He wanted to use the whole width of the field. He wanted to put his play makers into one on one situations. ISU recruited players for the spread. They have a lot of good receivers and small quick running backs. While Coach Rhoads has said he planned to use the spread, at heart his comfort and history is with power football. An example would be on third and short, a spread team would have at least 4 wideouts with one back. Then the defense would determine what the offense does. The offense would expect to use a quick pass, but if there is only 5 in the box for the defense, then they could audible to a run. The usual ISU play is to bring in a tight end or two and run between the tackles. ISU has not done well in short yardage situations lately. Another example is that spread teams use their passing attacks to open up the running game. For some reason the past few years, it has seemed that ISU has tried to use the running game to set up the passing game, and they can not get the running game established first. While many fans on here hate the spread, I think that the coaches have to fully commit to running a spread, especially since the players they have recruited are more suitable to play in a spread system.

Spread is a formation. OSU uses the spread but they run a lot of power. Our issue was our Oline wasn't very good in those downs or any other. What then happened was a team could do two things: They could stop the run with 6 or maybe even five guys allowing more guys to drop into coverage and they could also get pressure with 4 guys, again allowing more guys to drop into coverage than you would expect as a DC. That makes life hard for SR. IMO, it was like the defense got to throw 12 guys out there in his eyes. This isn't really a matter of philosophy because all good OCs, at their core, have the same philosophy: Make the defense cheat to something and then go somewhere else. The great ones can make that happen. You watch OSU and they just constantly are messing with LBs and safeties, especially safeties. They run a bunch of jet action to hold guys and essentially remove a guy from run support. What we can't do right now is get a base. We don't have something that just works against a defense playing straight up. When you don't have that, you are in a world of hurt.