"I would not call it a spread. I would call it I-formation from the shotgun. We talked to Jerry (Kill) and I asked him how he would describe it or label it. He didn't give it a name, but he said he spent nine months at Kansas State and it reflects a lot of what Kansas State does and what he did at Minnesota.
"The misconception of the spread is that if you line up in the shotgun, people call it the spread. Before the spread took over college football, if you lined up in the shotgun they called it the shotgun.