The method has included more variety, though. “We’re trying to find different ways to attack the defense based on the guys that we have,” Day said. “And I think when you look back 10 years ago — maybe more now — it was like the spread offense was kind of the new thing and that was creating a little bit of stress for the defense.” But defensive coordinators get paid, too, and they managed to work out various ways to slow that offensive revolution that started in various corners of the college football world in the early 2000s and pretty much took over by 2012 when Urban Meyer brought the full spread offense to Ohio State. Day is an aficionado of a slightly different version — Chip Kelly’s attack made famous at Oregon while Meyer was remaking offense in the SEC at Florida — but he was certainly a spread…
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