NTXCoog

The Spread obviously doesn't guarantee success. And yes, you have to have talent in both systems. But the type of talent required is often quite different. Schools like UH and UNT just aren't going to get 4 and 5 star OL and DLs. Meanwhile schools like OSU and Bama will fill their entire 2 deep with those types of players.

OTOH those schools don't have a use for the 5'6" WR even if they have 4.3 speed, great hands, and dominate in HS. Those guys just aren't big enough to block well in a pro-style offense. So these guys with great hands and speed flourish in spread offenses when they would do nothing on a pro style team. Same thing happens with QBs. Bama doesn't want a 5'10" QB that's been playing in a spread style since junior high putting up monster number in HS. They want the 6'3" NFL prototype. That works for them. But that 5'10" QB can continue to put up monster stats in college in the spread.

Need an example of the spread being effective when pro style wouldn't... look at UH vs Penn State in 2011. PSU had the #5 scoring defense/#20 total defense. Dominant DL with 3 of the 4 being drafted by the NFL. 1 of the 3 LBs drafted. What do you think the odds UH would have had against that type of defense going pro style? Maybe we could do it. Although the RBs only had 59 total yards rushing, that was on just 8 carries. But that success was more based on surprise and even backwards passes that count as rushes. I'd say our chance of winning a game like that would be slim. But using the spread, it was a pretty easy win with our tiny speedsters going crazy and those PSU lineman getting frustrated because they had little impact due to passes going out so quickly.