Will our style of offense eventually become tougher to deal with because it's unusual?

It's never going to become THAT out of the norm, because pro teams run similar offenses. Pro teams aren't running Air Force's offense or Georgia Tech's offenses, so yeah, they're kind of oddball offenses right now. But pro teams are running what Michigan runs, and therefore, some coaches are going to filter down, and some colleges are going to sell the offense to get recruits ("Come here so we can prepare you for what you'll be running in the NFL!).

Brian noted that Perry's TD vs Hawaii was just what you're talking about

It will be tougher to deal with because Harbaugh and, soon enough, even better talent.

In my opinion, Harbaugh is bringing the pro game to Ann Arbor, meaning, winning games with the pass. Hardly anyone rushes in the pros because defenses are too fast. So, they refine the passing game to a science. I think Harbs is taking rhat approach.

West coast offense will always have a place, but Harbaugh's offense will always be a bear to deal with. If a team is used to dealing with the spread but still sees a pro-style attack a few times a year, the Harbaughffense will still be a load. It's like what Reggie Jackson said about Nolan Ryan: "Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon." Harbaughs offense seems to me like pro-style TO THE MAX. In other words, it's not the offense so much as it is the volume and variation of the plays that will make it a bear to deal with. 

From my understanding, what makes Harbaugh's offense difficult to stop is all the wrinkles he creates off of semi-normal sets. Right now the offense is very vanilla, but you know he is holding back and setting up plays for the future. We've seen in the past where one game he is doing one thing and then the next game he does something completely different. That's difficult to plan for.

Maybe, but over a long period of time, and certainly not in the next few years.

I'll preface this by saying I am not a football guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I think as the spread becomes more and more prevalent in HS and college, you'll start seeing pro-style offenses a bit less.

But it's not like pro style offenses are going the way of the triple option or the wishbone right now. Ton of programs across the country are still running heavy pro style schemes.

Yes

Well, clearly no. Looking at this past weekend it is obvious that this team is still coached by Brady Hoke and teams are just going to kill us this season. /s

Maybe?

You can't say our offense is tough to deal with until we can outhit UCF.

I don’t think there are many good pro style passing attacks in college football. There may be good “passing” teams that occasionally put up larger stats, like some of the spread and shred offenses that dink and dunk or screen a lot. However, good and consistent down the field passing attacks don’t seem to be that common. Most down the field passes I see in college football are like mini Hail Mary’s.

I think this type of offense can flourish in college football. Obviously you have to have the right personnel to accomplish this and it’s hard to find the right combination of WR’s, QB and O line, but if it can be done anywhere, UM is the place. Especially with a former high level QB as the head coach. I also think having a Jedd Fisch, or a highly qualified person in the passing game coordinator position, is proving to be highly valuable.

Simulating Michigan in practice cant be much fun these days.

and it will become so tough that Michigan Football will become an NFL team and all the pundits that said Harbaugh will eventually go back to the NFL will be pounding their chest.

Yes, defenses aren't built for it any more either. The only concern would be if, similar to what Nebraska's new coach claimed to have run into, there was dwindling amount of talented high school players who could fit into this system. I'm kind of skeptical on this as even 20 years later we see teams like GT, Navy running the option, and part of the college coach's job is to develop/mold talent anyway

Harbaugh just adjusts. We see a different offense every week on purpose. He gameplans for each opponent and exposes their weakness. I think we'll see in a bit of a different look every single week from our O, and that's a great thing, because it gives us versatility and makes us way more difficult to prepare for. Can't just take away one thing (as UCF tried to do) and not get burned in a different way. The pieces are in place to make it happen, so I do think while it is a bit unusual for college coaches to change their offensive strategy for each opponent as opposed to daring a defense to stop our specific scheme by trying to scheme around them while remaining in the same look, this will definitely be a difficult O to defend throughout the season.