Are There Any Teams

[BleedRed78]

Running a similar offense to what we ran in the 90's? I'm not sure that I buy the whole excuse that it wouldn't have remained effective in the modern era of football.

Just wondering if anybody knows any better than I do of any other team out there who might be running something inspired by it.

Not Wisconsin - that's more of a run figured pro formation offense from what I can tell. Not service academies either...they're true triple option as opposed to power I with option offense.

 

[CatColumbia]

Georgia Tech and Navy.

 

[BleedRed78]

Georgia Tech and Navy.

They're more true triple option though aren't they? Unlike power i option?

 

[HuskerLLM]

Georgia Tech and Navy.

Neither run an offense similar to 90s Nebraska...not even close

 

[Flick2.0]

Georgia Tech and Navy.

Most of Nebraska's games from the 90's are on youtube. Go watch those. GT and Navy don't run anything remotely close.

 

[c3o]

Wisconsin would be close. San Diego too. But neither incorporate the option. So nobody runs our old offense.

Navy runs a flexbone option, with wingbacks and is an option or sweep every play with occasions FB dive or PA pass

 

[dand84]

I think the conceptual successor to what T.O. developed over the years is closer to the spread option that you see today But to be fair, T.O.'s offense was a vastly complicated beast. Go back and look at the early 90s games and you will see part of the genesis of the spread option from the shotgun or pistol.

 

[jolley]

Running a similar offense to what we ran in the 90's? I'm not sure that I buy the whole excuse that it wouldn't have remained effective in the modern era of football.

Just wondering if anybody knows any better than I do of any other team out there who might be running something inspired by it.

Not Wisconsin - that's more of a run figured pro formation offense from what I can tell. Not service academies either...they're true triple option as opposed to power I with option offense.

IMO, it would be hard to gets qb's as they take a beating and the nfl doesn't draft them, but I think it would work if you could get them.

 

[Flick2.0]

IMO, it would be hard to gets qb's as they take a beating and the nfl doesn't draft them, but I think it would work if you could get them.

Haven’t we seen three different Husker QBs in 9 games and at least two last season due to the beating they’re taking in the current system?

 

[jolley]

Haven’t we seen three different Husker QBs in 9 games and at least two last season due to the beating they’re taking in the current system?

yeah, but I am really talking about recruiting them to an option system, They'd be hard to come by

 

[BleedRed78]

IMO, it would be hard to gets qb's as they take a beating and the nfl doesn't draft them, but I think it would work if you could get them.

Yeah but look at McCaffreys story. Everybody wanted him at WR but we took him at QB where he wanted to remain. Just need to scout athletes like that who'd like to remain at QB.

 

[uberism1111]

Running a similar offense to what we ran in the 90's? I'm not sure that I buy the whole excuse that it wouldn't have remained effective in the modern era of football.

Just wondering if anybody knows any better than I do of any other team out there who might be running something inspired by it.

Not Wisconsin - that's more of a run figured pro formation offense from what I can tell. Not service academies either...they're true triple option as opposed to power I with option offense.

If you want to watch a program similar in some ways it would be WI, but then you would be dead before ever seeing a national title.

TO said he would have gone to a spread option like teams run today if he had coached longer.

Our offense will be fine.

 

[BleedRed78]

If you want to watch a program similar in some ways it would be WI, but then you would be dead before ever seeing a national title.

TO said he would have gone to a spread option like teams run today if he had coached longer.

Our offense will be fine.

I want to believe you. But so long as AM is the starter, we'll lose. I wish he'd figure it out and get better, but that's not happening anytime soon

 

[IUHusker]

I never got the argument you can’t still recruit a true option QB. I’m sure there are tons of players that are capable of running the old offense. They now are just playing 3/4 string WR.

go get a a kid who wants to play and compete, the NFL will find you and move you WR/SS.

with that said, I don’t see us going back, frost has HIS offense for better or worse.

 

[Harry Caray]

IMO, it would be hard to gets qb's as they take a beating and the nfl doesn't draft them, but I think it would work if you could get them.

But now with the NCAA allowing players to profit off of their likeness and accept endorsements, you'll see plenty of athletes willing to play QB in an option offense. QB is by far the most marketable position.

 

[Sinomatic]

Osborne ain't coming back to the sideline so it don't matter. No one runs that offense to his caliber. And I for one am not interested in a poor mans Osborne.

NU better shoot for championships or I for one am done watching them play or supporting the Cornhuskers.

 

[studed]

Georgia Tech and Navy.

georgia tech no. they run the spread now. paul johnson retired from coaching

 

[WTFMatt]

IMO, it would be hard to gets qb's as they take a beating and the nfl doesn't draft them, but I think it would work if you could get them.

I think it would be easier now than ever to get QBs. Nobody runs the offense NU did in the 90s. There would be no competition to get the 1 QB a year that we would be looking for. Besides, 99% of college QBs don't make the NFL.

 

[jolley]

I think it would be easier now than ever to get QBs. Nobody runs the offense NU did in the 90s. There would be no competition to get the 1 QB a year that we would be looking for. Besides, 99% of college QBs don't make the NFL.

maybe

 

[c3o]

Run the ball and play D. We can’t recruit the NFL offenses. We won in the 90s by getting good players to buy in.

you can beat any team by being able to run and by playing defense. We can try to run OSU’s offense but they’ll always have better horses than we do

 

[jteten]

With the right talent, any system that has been mastered with superior talent can win. The option, veer, fun n gun, spread. Hell, if bama went to the option, they would be rolling people.

 

[c3o]

With the right talent, any system that has been mastered with superior talent can win. The option, veer, fun n gun, spread. Hell, if bama went to the option, they would be rolling people.

right but since they can recruit anyone they want they run a system that attracts guys who want to get to the nfl.

our old system put a lot of OL into the league and we could always recruit bad *** RBs.

We don’t have the attitude to run our 90s offense. It would be sad

 

[HuskerLLM]

Well, the literal creator of that offense isn't available to call plays anymore and the guys that learned under him for a few decades couldn't do it either. Also, the way we blocked for that offense isn't allowed anymore...so there is that.

 

[jteten]

right but since they can recruit anyone they want they run a system that attracts guys who want to get to the nfl.

our old system put a lot of OL into the league and we could always recruit bad *** RBs.

We don’t have the attitude to run our 90s offense. It would be sad

QB and WR were the only positions that were a challenge to get guys into the pros back in the day. I’m okay with having great college players that aren’t nfl starting QBs. There are very few of those veeeeeeery few. I’m not suggesting we go to the straight up option, but it would be nice to have a better identity. We are all over the place.

 

[WTFMatt]

With the right talent, any system that has been mastered with superior talent can win. The option, veer, fun n gun, spread. Hell, if bama went to the option, they would be rolling people.

Could they do it with Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, Mike Shula? I think that is a clear no. You have to find the coach. The coach that can win whether he runs the option, veer, fun n gun, or spread. However, if you look at the landscape of college football today, nobody is really running a power running offense with option elements (other than service academies).

The difficulties of recruiting to NU have been pretty damned apparent over the last 20 years. Why not go back to doing something that no one else does and see where it gets us? Of course, the problem with that is who do you get for a coach?

 

[c3o]

Wake Forest runs an interesting power run out of the gun.

I know I’ve said this but I hate our current offense. ***** ball