Sports News - College Football - The New York Times Chris Rubio spends much of the year traveling the country to stage clinics where he preaches the gospel of long snapping to young players, whose abilities are highly valued by college coaches. Coaches Talk of Injuries, Trying to Slow the Spread Coach like Alabama's Nick Saban argue that spread offenses, because of their fast pace and more frequent number of plays and the way they limit defensive substitutions, lead to more injuries.