The Spread Offense

[orangeandbrown]

Didn't Northwestern and Purdue play the spread before we did.

And Hammb is right. The beauty of the offense is that it simplifies things.

[transfer2BGSU]

why the hell would les miles leave a powerhouse in lsu and play in the sec and move to the crappy ol big 10??? who cares if he has ties with michigan, urban had ties with notre dame and he was smart and didnt go there.

Miles has ties to Michigan - he played there, went to school there, graduated from there, met his wife there.

Meyer had no ties to Notre Dame other than he coached there (and was named after a Pope). Meyer went where the money was.

[Class of 61]

Watching the game last nite, I commented to my future "step-son-in law" about how similar KU looked on offense to the BG of Omar Jacobs... Line up in spread formation...look to sideline to get the play call, make appropropriate shifts etc., then run the play... difference was KU's QB was NOT an Omar... can't believe that some people were pushing this kid for the Heisman...a TON of poor decisions and wayward passes.

[SicSic80]

SicSIc, If Les Miles is the HC at Michigan YOU could line up under center and the offense would show more than it did under Carr...

Flip.....I'm trying real hard to view this as a compliment? Maybe in high school it might have been true, however at my current age and physical condition, being "under center".....

[hammb]

why the hell would les miles leave a powerhouse in lsu and play in the sec and move to the crappy ol big 10??? who cares if he has ties with michigan, urban had ties with notre dame and he was smart and didnt go there.

Because it's far easier to win a national championship from the Big 10 (ESPECIALLY at UM) than it is in the SEC. The SEC has too many quality teams, then compounds it with a championship game. In the Big 10 it comes down to OSU, UM, and maybe one other good team (be it PSU, Illinois, UW, etc.)

Far easier to go undefeated in that conference than the SEC. Especially at Michigan where you have a built in recruiting advantage over every conference member, but one. In the SEC he was on equal recruiting footing with Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee.

[orangeandbrown]

why the hell would les miles leave a powerhouse in lsu and play in the sec and move to the crappy ol big 10??? who cares if he has ties with michigan, urban had ties with notre dame and he was smart and didnt go there.

Maybe it was always his dream to coach at Michigan, not LSU.

[mmisbg]

Because it's far easier to win a national championship from the Big 10 (ESPECIALLY at UM) than it is in the SEC. The SEC has too many quality teams, then compounds it with a championship game. In the Big 10 it comes down to OSU, UM, and maybe one other good team (be it PSU, Illinois, UW, etc.)

Far easier to go undefeated in that conference than the SEC. Especially at Michigan where you have a built in recruiting advantage over every conference member, but one. In the SEC he was on equal recruiting footing with Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee.

That's the bottom line. Nuff said Hammb.

[buffaloefalcon]

I bet you wouldn't hear anything about BGSU on either Michigan or OSU's message board! Only to bash the hell out of BG! Man this post got fragmented all over the place! BACK TO BGSU PLEASE! The Big 11 makes me sick anyhow! Anytime a team can sit idle (Ohio Stank) and still have a shot at a BCS championship; this should tell you that the system is set up for the small few! The Big 11, ACC, SEC, PAC 10 and Notre Dame all have a hand in consolidating the revenue in College football. Why do you think they don't want a playoff system! When the MAC can only bring in 3Milllion Max for the CONFERENCE, compared to a Big 11 that can bring in more than 30 Million for it's own conference! That should tell all that some anti trust violations are going on! I LOVE College football and BGSU, but HATE the bandwagon fans, corporate media and such that poisons the best SPORT on the planet! Go visit BCSbusters.com and see why I and millions of others are angry about college football not going to a playoff system THAT COULD WORK!

[bobio]

First, who the hell cares about Michigan other than sicsic80. Let's leave that crap in the sorry state of michigan who can't field any kind of football team, even if one of their teams does beat lowly Miami next week.

Second, Flipper, you must not know sicsic. If you throw him behind center at Michigan, or for that matter behind center at a pee wee football game, he would cry like a baby. He likes to think that back in high school it may have made a difference. However, I remember him back then. The only time he got near a high school football field was when he looked for loose change under the bleachers.

[bobio]

Before any of you get the wrong idea, the above message to sicsic was in jest.

[Flipper]

I'll go one step further..... I could line up under center for Les Miles and produce more than the offense the Wolverines ran under Lloyd Carr last year.

Nahh...that's just drunk talk...

[JoeFalcon]

They didn't call Michigan Offensive Coordinator Mike DeBord "Mike DeBoring" when he was head coach at CMU for nothing.

Regarding our version of the spread option, Urbie said they visited with Louisville when Scott Linehan (now head coach of the Rams) was running the offense and took some stuff from him in addition to elements from Purdue and Northwestern.

[BGDrew]

I'll go one step further..... I could line up under center for Les Miles and produce more than the offense the Wolverines ran under Lloyd Carr last year.

Nahh...that's just drunk talk...

At 8:51am on a Monday?

Props, sir. Props.