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re: Option offenses gimmiky
Posted on 9/3/12 at 9:18 pm to BoonHogganbeck
Posted on 9/3/12 at 9:18 pm to BoonHogganbeck
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Has anyone ever run that in the SEC and been successful?
Holy dogshit Private Pyle
Bear Bryant and Emory Bellard (among others) are shaking their heads somewhere right now
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Posted on 9/3/12 at 9:39 pm to dedfella
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Bear Bryant and Emory Bellard (among others) are shaking their heads somewhere right now
I'll take your word on it, but would need a shovel to verify...
Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:36 pm to BoonHogganbeck
Apparently you just started watching football about 3 years ago... option football has been around quite awhile.
Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:39 pm to RoscoeHarper
Anything before 2001, is too long ago for most on this board.
Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:51 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Anything before 2001, is too long ago for most on this board.
This explains so many things
Posted on 9/4/12 at 8:22 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Anything before 2001, is too long ago for most on this board.
So true...
Posted on 9/4/12 at 8:33 am to plazadweller
I think the OP has gotten the message about the option's significance historically.
But the original point is mistaken as well. All the SEC teams exclaimed "that gimmick won't work in the SEC" when Urban Meyer first joined. We can speculate on the reasons (Florida's talent, Tebow's uniqueness, etc) but there is no question that it worked and worked well for several years, and not that long ago.
All that being said, I really don't like the spread option. Someone once said "when a team lines up 3 yards from the goalline in a shotgun, I want to vomit." My sentiments exactly.
But the original point is mistaken as well. All the SEC teams exclaimed "that gimmick won't work in the SEC" when Urban Meyer first joined. We can speculate on the reasons (Florida's talent, Tebow's uniqueness, etc) but there is no question that it worked and worked well for several years, and not that long ago.
All that being said, I really don't like the spread option. Someone once said "when a team lines up 3 yards from the goalline in a shotgun, I want to vomit." My sentiments exactly.
Posted on 9/4/12 at 11:25 am to Crimson Legend
Yep...never understood why a team that had just three to go and had no passing options other than quick routes would intentionally snap the ball 5 yards backwards...
Like you reference, without a Tebow like QB that just doesn't work.
Like you reference, without a Tebow like QB that just doesn't work.
Posted on 9/4/12 at 11:27 am to DaleDenton
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I'll take your word on it, but would need a shovel to verify...
Bear's actually just still shaking from the DTs right now.
Posted on 9/4/12 at 11:31 am to Smoke Ring
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80% of the SEC and SWC used to run the triple option
I don't think it was ever 80% of the SEC. Alabama did it in the '70s under Bear Bryant, Mississippi State did it a while in the '70s and early '80s and Vanderbilt ran it some while DiNardo was there, but otherwise I don't think it really caught on in the SEC overall. LSU has had some option in its overall package from time to time, but has never really been a true option team.
This post was edited on 9/4/12 at 11:33 am
Posted on 9/4/12 at 11:35 am to Slippery Slope
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Every offense besides the option offense is gimmicky.
screw that, single wing FTW
This post was edited on 9/4/12 at 11:39 am
Posted on 9/4/12 at 11:42 am to BoonHogganbeck
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Has anyone ever run that in the SEC and been successful?
Urban Meyer crushed with a spread option for a while. Some people will probably say he got 'exposed' in the end, but I think that was more just a product of Brantley being ill-suited to run that system.
Posted on 9/4/12 at 12:23 pm to BoonHogganbeck
The 1995 Nebraska team was, in my opinion, the greatest college football team in the history of college football. They were totally unstoppable running the option. Averaged around 50 per game during an era when fewer points were scored.
Posted on 9/4/12 at 12:55 pm to BoonHogganbeck
Oregon is of course the best team that runs it right now...and could give SEC fits if they dont turn the ball over every play
Posted on 9/4/12 at 12:56 pm to Bose Ikard
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The 1995 Nebraska team was, in my opinion, the greatest college football team in the history of college football. They were totally unstoppable running the option. Averaged around 50 per game during an era when fewer points were scored.
Agreed... OU was pretty damned unstoppable with the wishbone in the 70s and 80s too
Posted on 9/4/12 at 1:31 pm to Bose Ikard
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The 1995 Nebraska team was, in my opinion, the greatest college football team in the history of college football. They were totally unstoppable running the option. Averaged around 50 per game during an era when fewer points were scored.
That statement is about as close as an opinion can get to "fact". 95 Nebraska was a thing of beauty for everyone except pass-lovers. Great defense, smash-mouth rushing, around-the-end slicing, old style football...and nobody has ever executed it better. (Not even my beloved Tide).
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