Long heralded as an innovator in his own right, Urban Meyer owes a great deal to those that came before him.
As any coach will tell you, it's rare to come up with a completely new concept in football's modern era. Rather, the new ideas we romanticize are often the brainchild of someone else.
Such is the case with the most successful 'guru' of spread offenses. Meyer, of course, has three national titles to his name, thanks in large part to a dominant attack that stretches a defense across the width of the field before pounding them inside with an inside running game that would've made Woody Hayes blush.