Pete Carroll Discusses the Spread-Option

There's been a lot of talk lately about the spread-option offense and dual-threat quarterbacks (Vince Young, Tim Tebow, Dennis Dixon and Jake Locker rush to mind). On Tuesday, Pete Carroll was asked about the trend.

Due to time constraints, we can't show the entire thing (just two minutes), but Carroll does talk about recruiting Tebow and his thoughts on other Pac-10 quarterbacks. Note that when Carroll discussed the idea of using the system at USC, he started off by acknowledging freshman Aaron Corp (likely to redshirt this season) as more of a mobile quarterback. His full comment, as provided by USC's transcription service, is after the jump.

For more on the spread-option, including some earlier comments by Carroll, click here.

Would USC ever recruit a Dennis Dixon-type quarterback?

We haven't recruited a guy like that. I think Aaron Corp is probably the guy who's been probably most involved in a running [offense] when the quarterback was featured in high school, and he has a little bit of special quickness that gives him maybe an advantage over some of the other guys that we've had. We're going to go with whatever we've got to go with to make our team as good as we can make it, and that depends on the guys.

But we don't have anybody in the program that's a featured running quarterback, and we don't have anybody in our recruiting sights that really would fit into that, so we're not going in that direction for a while anyway.

Comments

[The One]

He said the key thing. It is not the offense. It is the personnel. You merily fit your scheme around the kids.

[Gerrrg]

I've always liked watching the traditional option attack of Nebraska and Air Force. Tommie Frazier was one of the best at running that option attack.