What Urban Meyer did at Bowling Green worked at Utah then Florida and now back in Ohio. What Chip Kelly did at New Hampshire worked at Oregon. Maybe defense is more about regional recruiting but offenses seem to travel as long as you have the right people implementing it. Which might be the actual problem as opposed to the scheme itself.
What pieces did he have to help make that offense work though?
That's what it boils down to.
Can you get the pieces you need in the region you're at? And if you can't, can you recruit well enough to go and find them?
I can tell you this much...
South Florida kids don't wanna run any 2-gap ****.