I just can't get on board with your line of thinking Salty. If you don't have a problem with ARod as OC, then you have to be in favor of 1 of the following:
-Utah ditching the pro style offense after only one season and all of the possible ramifications that would follow: possible recruits rethinking their committment, Utah looking like they're reaching for an identity which could give the image of instability and hurt future recruiting, etc.
or....
-Keeping the pro style offense and putting a spread guy in charge of it who only has one season experience working in that system.
Those are the 2 options we have if ARod is promoted back to OC. Period. I'm sorry, but neither option looks very good to me. IMO, I like the pro style offense, I just didn't like how Chow ran it. Back when Meyer brought the spread to Utah it was cutting edge and it gave Utah a leg up on the competition. Now, it seems like over half the damn schools in D1 run some variation of the spread. Teams prep for it several times a year. While it certainly can still be an effective offense, the days of suprising people with it are over.
I am not against the spread, and not against the pro style either. I am also not against some hybrid of the 2. I'm not against anything they want to run, as long as they can run it well.
I don't think any recruits are going to say, "I only came here because I expected to be running a pro style. If you're running a spread I am transferring!" If anyone would be upset about it, it would probably be a RB, or maybe a TE. I doubt the QB cares, doubt any linemen care, and can't imagine any receivers care.
My understanding of the whole situation was that the Utes were only changing to the pro style because Wynn totally sucked at running the ball (which spread QB's have to be good at). But now that Wynn probably won't be the starter next year, I don't think that's a big deal.
I haven't seen Chase Hansen a lot, but what little I have seen he has been a good runner. Obviously that doesn't mean he will be at the next level, but he's bigger and stronger than Wynn and doesn't totally **** his pants the way Wynn does when he is about to get hit.
In short: I don't care what formation Utah runs the most. I just want whatever they run to work and work well. I saw the spread work well for several years, even though the QB was by no means a good runner. I then saw the pro style totally stink this season, even though we had one of the best RBs in the Pac 12, several NFL caliber WRs, 2 all Pac 12 O lineman, and an OC who was supposedly a legend.
So if we go back to the spread, even with the same OC we had directing the spread last year, I won't complain about it. I think even you agree that last year's offense was WAY better than this year's offense. Even though we had better players on offense this year pretty much across the board (with the exception of Hays, but even there we had Wynn early in the season and the offense still stunk).
