Zone Read

Hey Coach,  I have been looking on youtube for teams in Canada that run a zone read.  Not much luck, but did find one team that ran some plays that resembled it.  They ran it against a team from our league in our variation of a provincial final two years ago.  It worked pretty good.  The same 2 teams met this year but they had changed their offense and did not run any spread.

Hey Coach, Vary rarely do we see true option here.  Some teams that run 4 down football will have a variation of it from under center.  I have never seen a team come out and run option the way you know it from under center.  At times I have seen coaches run an "option" play and I have asked the coach who are you optioning and they can't give me a definite answer.  I have been given answers like the first guy that shows.  It is kind of a dinosaur here at the university level.  Many teams have opted for the multiple 5 and even 6 receiver passing looks that you might see in the CFL.  In the 80's and back there were teams that ran almost solely option from under center, but really those days are gone.  I will say that because it has not really been around for so long that people do not really know how to defend it anymore.  All the more reason that I would like to become a spread option team.  A funny thing about it is that I wanted to go to a coaching clinic last week because one of the presenters was doing a spread option talk.  I was unable to get to the clinic so I don't know how it was.  Maybe because the spread has gained popularity in the NCAA that teams may want to try it here.