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bandhammer said:
Too many generalizations in this thread. It's like telling a basketball coach to switch from man to 2-3 zone. The scheme doesnt matter so much as the execution. The closer Miami has gotten to a spread in the past 10 years, the worse they have looked. Chud's pro style was better than Werner's spread and Whipple's pro style was better than Nix's spread. I will give credit to Werner for playing to Berlin's strengths however.

I don't see what is wrong with the pro style offense though. FSU and UF both are pro style, UGA pro style, Bama pro style, USC pro style, Wisconsin pro style, VT pro style, Tennessee pro style, Ohio State has been pro style up until now, LSU pro style, Stanford pro style, Michigan will be pro style once Robinson is gone. The only team that has been consistently a top program running a spread over the last 15 years is Oklahoma. I realize Auburn, Oregon, Clemson and and Okie State are exciting, but those teams have never been consistently great.
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And even Oklahoma's "spread" is more of a hurryup Prostyle attack. They utilize the TE, 3 WRs, a feature RB, and pocket passing QB.
 
Oregon has to put up 40-50 points because they have to put all of their best recruits(who could play on defense) on offense to have that high powering play style. Their defense is shady at best.
 
Miami has it's own style or brand of football. We've lost our identity a bit in recent memory. I don't want Miami to be like anybody, but if I was forced to choose, USC is probably the only program I'd want us to resemble.
 
SolidCane said:
Miami has it's own style or brand of football. We've lost our identity a bit in recent memory. I don't want Miami to be like anybody, but if I was forced to choose, USC is probably the only program I'd want us to resemble.
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Good comparison.


Small, private school located in a huge city
Prostyle attack
Stout defenses
 
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"Spread" is almost like a four-letter word around here.

There are different versions of the spread.

It's not all "Air Raid" or "Triple Option". It's not all scatbacks, either. Oregon's had success with bigger backs in their system (Blount, Jeremiah Johnson, Onterrio Smith). Petrino's power spread employs big backs (Michael Bush, Knile Davis). Bigger backs are also effective in Malzahn's spread (McFadden, Felix Jones, Dyer).

You telling me Duke Johnson couldn't play in a spread?

I'd have no problem with the spread in Miami, so long as we run a balanced version of it. I'm not a fan of the 80/20 splits (tilted toward the run or the pass). We'd murder people with a spread coach who knows what he's doing.


HOWEVER, I love the pro-style offense, too. We just have to consistently recruit o-line and QB well, two areas that SoFla isn't known for.

Just gimme a coach who knows what the **** he's doing.
 
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