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Could an SEC team be competitive if they exclusively ran the triple option?
Posted on 9/5/20 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 9/5/20 at 1:13 pm
Watching Army vs Middle Tennessee State and its impressive how effecient this offense is when its ran effectively.
Obviously your defense has to hold up because it takes you so long to score.
My opinion is that it'd be about what I expect from the Pirate's 50 passes a game.
You couldn't win a championship with it but you could upset someone who didnt prepare good enough.
Obviously your defense has to hold up because it takes you so long to score.
My opinion is that it'd be about what I expect from the Pirate's 50 passes a game.
You couldn't win a championship with it but you could upset someone who didnt prepare good enough.
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Posted on 9/5/20 at 1:16 pm to SidewalkTiger
I mean that’s pretty much what Kentucky did the last 8 games of the season last year.
Posted on 9/5/20 at 1:16 pm to SidewalkTiger
I mean you could be competitive and beat teams but I don’t see anyone who runs the triple option competing for an SEC championship or anything.
Posted on 9/5/20 at 1:36 pm to SidewalkTiger
You could but you’d become less so over time because it would hurt recruiting. If you had Alabama/Georgia levels or even Auburn, you could win championships. In fact, I think you could win chips with even 4th/5th/6th in conference recruiting. However, you’d be 10/11/12th running this system.
The problem is that no top defensive recruit wants to spend their time in practice against cut blocks. No wide receivers period will want to come. And elite offensive guys don’t want to play in systems where they basically don’t learn to pass block, or run no passing offense at all.
Talent is a massive component of winning titles and you can’t get title talent running the triple option.
The problem is that no top defensive recruit wants to spend their time in practice against cut blocks. No wide receivers period will want to come. And elite offensive guys don’t want to play in systems where they basically don’t learn to pass block, or run no passing offense at all.
Talent is a massive component of winning titles and you can’t get title talent running the triple option.
This post was edited on 9/5/20 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 9/5/20 at 2:01 pm to jmcc
It may be a little bit of the chicken/egg bc most teams that would consider running the triple option exclusively probably wasn’t getting potential pro skill position players anyway
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