UCLA Head Coach Jim Mora: No Spread Team Has Won A National Championship

UCLA head coach Jim Mora shared his thoughts on the spread offense today, and they were bad.

On Monday, UCLA hired Michigan's Jedd Fisch to take over as offensive coordinator for the Bruins who went 4-8 on the season. Fisch will look to spark an offense that struggled mightily, ranking No. 81 in the nation per ESPN.

Today, UCLA head coach Jim Mora was asked about the hiring and his reasoning behind it.

Check it out:

Wait, what? That can't be right. That can't even be close to the truth. And of course, less than 10 minutes later, Twitter (as it always does!) came through with the Real Facts. SB Nation's Spencer Hall:

Hmmmm.

Some background: Fisch is a "pro-style" guy, meaning his teams normally have at least one RB on the field and a TE lined up. In contrast, the spread offense utilizes a shotgun snap and more wide receivers, and is often run at a higher tempo than pro style teams.

But back to Mora's original and insanely wrong point that teams can't win national championships:

Cam Newton's 2010 Auburn squad? Spread. Tim Tebow at Florida in 2006 and 2008? Spread. Vince Young at Texas in '05? Spread. 2014 Ohio State? Spread. The list goes on. Alabama is currently running a spread-variant right now!

Not only do plenty of teams in college football run the spread offense and win, plenty of teams run the spread offense and win it all.

Either Mora doesn't really know what the spread is, or he just doesn't care, but he should be quite familiar—the Bruins lost their last game of the season by 26 freakin' points to a spread team.