I know this has been discussed here before

[expireddog]

But if Moorhead doesn’t work out, put me on record as saying we should hire someone to run the triple option.

We’ve had one thousand yard receiver since 2000 (Fred Ross 2016). I’m just not sure we’ll ever be a team that airs it out all over the place.

Run the ball, shorten the game and play physical defense.

Seeing Air Force have a 12 play 12 minute drive is awesome. That would play all day everyday against the big boys. The triple option is hell to prepare for when teams are preparing week in week out for spread offenses.

 

[dawgatUSM]

No

 

[57stratdawg]

I’m just not so sure that works against these DL. And, it’s a 2 year transition out period if things don’t go well.

I’m all for creativity in the run game though. Unfortunately, I’m afraid our opponent in 3 days is right at the top of that list. They do a great job with their schemes.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

You don’t have to run the triple option to have 12 play drives. Mullen’s run heavy spread did it just fine. Triple option in the sec would get destroyed. There’s a reason no one runs it.

 

[woozman]

No

Air Force doesn’t have to play Bama, LSU, AM, and AU every year. It will never work in the SEC West.

 

[Drebin]

There's a reason only academies run it and GT ran away from it. Recruits don't want to come here to run the triple option.

 

[muhstate]

MAYBE running something similar to what New Mexico ran back a few years ago which was essentially the Triple Option out of the Pistol formation. Running the Triple Option would mean recruiting undersized Offensive lineman with a totally different blocking scheme, scat backs and A-backs. These are good choices for service academies but don't see how it'd work week in and week out in the SEC with the size and speed of the front 7s.

Really our best chance to succeed is probably running a power spread option offense, still utilizing Triple Option concepts but out of more conventional spread formations and maintaining a run heavy mindset.

Or just say 17 it and go Run and Shoot offense out of the Flexbone like Paul Johnson did back in the Navy days.

 

[bulldoghair]

But if Moorhead doesn’t work out, put me on record as saying we should hire someone to run the triple option.

We’ve had one thousand yard receiver since 2000 (Fred Ross 2016). I’m just not sure we’ll ever be a team that airs it out all over the place.

Run the ball, shorten the game and play physical defense.

Seeing Air Force have a 12 play 12 minute drive is awesome. That would play all day everyday against the big boys. The triple option is hell to prepare for when teams are preparing week in week out for spread offenses.

Yes I agree. Or a variation of that commitment.

Note for the naysayers, we would recruit better than the academies...and even Georgia Tech did. Speaking of Tech, (And Nebraska), I bet they still wish they hadn’t given in to the grass might be greener thought.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

There's a reason only academies run it and GT ran away from it. Recruits don't want to come here to run the triple option.

Georgia Tech put more receivers in the nfl than we have in the last 20 years.

 

[Bcash2]

And they’ve never done crap in a much weaker conference.

Georgia Tech put more receivers in the nfl than we have in the last 20 years.

Nm

 

[Dawg1976]

Wishbone baby! Shrader could be the modern day John Bond.

 

[expireddog]

They played in at least one ACC championship game under Johnson and also handed it to us in the orange bowl running the damn fullback dive. So our stud d-line couldn’t handle it with a month to prepare.

 

[thatsbaseball]

It's a thing of beauty when it works...it just don't work no more

 

[blacklistedbully]

Can't run it successfully in the SEC as a main scheme. But I have long advocated that it might be very interesting to teach it to a mix of 2nd and 3rd-teamers for use on 2 or 3 drives a game (more if it continues working) to make it really hard for defenses to prep properly.

I'd really like to see it as a change-of-pace. Use backups so you don't have to dilute starter's reps in our main offensive scheme.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Let's run the 46 Defense as well just to make sure we get to 0-12.

 

[blacklistedbully]

They played in at least one ACC championship game under Johnson and also handed it to us in the orange bowl running the damn fullback dive. So our stud d-line couldn’t handle it with a month to prepare.

Our DC left us right after the EB. Our D was not well-prepared and we made no adjustments to that dive.

 

[mount lefroy]

But if Moorhead doesn’t work out, put me on record as saying we should hire someone to run the triple option.

We’ve had one thousand yard receiver since 2000 (Fred Ross 2016). I’m just not sure we’ll ever be a team that airs it out all over the place.

Run the ball, shorten the game and play physical defense.

Seeing Air Force have a 12 play 12 minute drive is awesome. That would play all day everyday against the big boys. The triple option is hell to prepare for when teams are preparing week in week out for spread offenses.

As a kid who grew up going to games in the late 70s, I'm gonna vote no on this. Maybe a pac 12 or big 12 team could pull it off due to awful defenses but the sec would kill us on the field and in recruiting. The RPO offense is essentially the same thing but incorporating the quick pass.

 

[RiverCityDawg]

NO

Aside from the issues everyone else mentioned in this thread, it would be boring as hell to watch every. single. week. Ripping off long runs would be fun, but more often than not it would just be a grind and not entertaining. Unless it was the ONLY way to EVER win, I would be adamantly against it as a fan.

 

[Drebin]

Georgia Tech put more receivers in the nfl than we have in the last 20 years.

Do you know how much receiver talent is in the state of Georgia? They rarely threw to those receivers.

And besides, EVERYBODY has put more receivers in the NFL than we have in the last 20 years.

 

[bulldoghair]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1456619002

 

[bulldoghair]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1456619002

“If I was coaching today,” Switzer says, “I would line up in the spread and I would run three-back option plays out of the spread. I would have misdirection motion. I would have the passing game off of it, too – but I would make people defend the option game first.”

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Wishbone baby! Shrader could be the modern day John Bond.

Yeah, the wishbone went out with the four point stance for linemen.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/sports/ncaafootball/11bellard.html


Emory Bellard, the coach who was credited with introducing the wishbone formation to college football, providing the framework for many of the great running teams of the 1970s, died Thursday in Georgetown, Tex. He was 83.
His wife, Susan, said the cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Bellard (pronounced bell-ARD) spent 14 seasons as a head coach, first at Texas A&M and then at Mississippi State, but his signature contribution to football came in 1968 as an assistant at the University of Texas.
The Texas team had suffered through three subpar seasons, and the coach, Darrell Royal, seeking a change, asked Bellard to devise an offensive backfield scheme that would include a lead blocker and maximize the effectiveness of the team’s three strong running backs. Bellard came up with a variant of a two-back formation called the veer: the quarterback and the three runners lined up in the shape of a Y, or a wishbone, the fullback right behind the quarterback and two tailbacks split behind them.

 

[Maroon90]

Run whatever offense McKeen ran in 1940 and 1941.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Lance Long and Fred Ross, am I missing someone else?

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

Our DC left us right after the EB. Our D was not well-prepared and we made no adjustments to that dive.

By that time in the season our HC had already sent his resume to 10 other teams. Most of the team had been reading their own press before the bama game and we just slid right off the end of the schedule drunk on being the first #1 in the CFP rankings