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re: Wildcat Formation - How old is it really???
Posted on 9/9/09 at 10:30 am to I-59 Tiger
Posted on 9/9/09 at 10:30 am to I-59 Tiger
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Seriously. Its really an updated adaptation from the Single Wing that Texas under Dana X. Bible ran in 1939-40.
Fixed. Yes, it's older than you speculated. As has been said, it just keeps getting traced further and further back. The only 100% correct statement that has been said here is that Arkansas and Darren McFadden brought this formation into vogue in 2006.
This post was edited on 9/9/09 at 10:31 am
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Posted on 9/9/09 at 10:33 am to DCRebel
READ AND BECOME INFORMED
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In his 2003 book, “The Hurry-Up, No-Huddle: An Offensive Philosophy,” Gus Malzahn wrote about a warp-speed spread offense, the one that made him an Arkansas high school guru and helped him land a job as the offensive coordinator at Arkansas in 2006.
But at Springdale High School, Malzahn had also used a variation on the single wing, a play that dates to Pop Warner, in which the tailback does everything from run to pass to punt. Malzahn’s single wing 2.0 — tailored for a talented quarterback and wide receiver — helped him win a state championship at Springdale and outscore opponents, 664-118, in 2005.
“I’m just like any other coach, I’ve always tried to steal ideas,” said Malzahn, now the offensive coordinator at Tulsa, which entered Saturday with the highest-scoring offense among major college teams. “We were looking for ways to get the best players on the field.”
At Arkansas, the Wildcat became the formation it is today. McFadden had played some quarterback in high school, and Arkansas had another elite running back, Felix Jones.
“I said: ‘Come on. Yeah, right,’ ” Houston Nutt said. “Here’s what I’m worried about: the snap count. You play in front of 100,000 people. He’s not going to be able to do the snap count or control the motion and worry about the play clock. Now you’re going to put it on him?”
Yes.
“It didn’t take off until you put a great, great player in it,” said Houston Nutt, who as Mississippi’s coach now uses the Wildcat about 10 plays a game.
In 2006, Malzahn said, Arkansas ran the Wildcat 80 times with McFadden, the Razorbacks’ equivalent to the Dolphins’ Ronnie Brown.
In this offense, a tight end and a guard line up to the left of the center, and to the right is a guard and two tackles to form an unbalanced line. The quarterback is sent out wide as a flanker. One running back lines up in the shotgun behind the center while the other lines up as a receiver on the left side and goes in motion before the snap.
The running back (McFadden at Arkansas and now with Oakland, Brown with Miami) takes the snap and can hand off to the other running back. He can also fake the handoff and run the ball himself, or, as Brown has done once this season, fake the handoff, roll to the left, then take advantage of the misdirection to throw a touchdown pass to the tight end.
Lee took the Wildcat to Miami from Arkansas — he inherited it from Malzahn. Desperation was the mother of this offense because the Dolphins lacked the firepower to scare opponents. Their coaches were determined to get their best players — Brown and Ricky Williams — on the field at the same time.
NY TIMES
This can be the end of the thread
In his 2003 book, “The Hurry-Up, No-Huddle: An Offensive Philosophy,” Gus Malzahn wrote about a warp-speed spread offense, the one that made him an Arkansas high school guru and helped him land a job as the offensive coordinator at Arkansas in 2006.
But at Springdale High School, Malzahn had also used a variation on the single wing, a play that dates to Pop Warner, in which the tailback does everything from run to pass to punt. Malzahn’s single wing 2.0 — tailored for a talented quarterback and wide receiver — helped him win a state championship at Springdale and outscore opponents, 664-118, in 2005.
“I’m just like any other coach, I’ve always tried to steal ideas,” said Malzahn, now the offensive coordinator at Tulsa, which entered Saturday with the highest-scoring offense among major college teams. “We were looking for ways to get the best players on the field.”
At Arkansas, the Wildcat became the formation it is today. McFadden had played some quarterback in high school, and Arkansas had another elite running back, Felix Jones.
“I said: ‘Come on. Yeah, right,’ ” Houston Nutt said. “Here’s what I’m worried about: the snap count. You play in front of 100,000 people. He’s not going to be able to do the snap count or control the motion and worry about the play clock. Now you’re going to put it on him?”
Yes.
“It didn’t take off until you put a great, great player in it,” said Houston Nutt, who as Mississippi’s coach now uses the Wildcat about 10 plays a game.
In 2006, Malzahn said, Arkansas ran the Wildcat 80 times with McFadden, the Razorbacks’ equivalent to the Dolphins’ Ronnie Brown.
In this offense, a tight end and a guard line up to the left of the center, and to the right is a guard and two tackles to form an unbalanced line. The quarterback is sent out wide as a flanker. One running back lines up in the shotgun behind the center while the other lines up as a receiver on the left side and goes in motion before the snap.
The running back (McFadden at Arkansas and now with Oakland, Brown with Miami) takes the snap and can hand off to the other running back. He can also fake the handoff and run the ball himself, or, as Brown has done once this season, fake the handoff, roll to the left, then take advantage of the misdirection to throw a touchdown pass to the tight end.
Lee took the Wildcat to Miami from Arkansas — he inherited it from Malzahn. Desperation was the mother of this offense because the Dolphins lacked the firepower to scare opponents. Their coaches were determined to get their best players — Brown and Ricky Williams — on the field at the same time.
NY TIMES
This post was edited on 9/9/09 at 10:37 am
Posted on 9/9/09 at 11:08 am to DCRebel
I thought I settled this argument yesterday when I posted this:
All this shite was invented back in the Coliseum days when Christians were being fed to wild lions. Romans frequently played a game similar to "keep-away" with the hungry cats called "Your Nutts or Mine", but many times, they actually used wild boar nutts instead of a football. The elusive techniques used in "Your Nutts Or Mine" evolved into what is now referred to as "The Wildcat". The term "Wild Rebel" is actually a misnomer with the exception that a few wild rebels did survive with their nutts intact during those times. Subsequently, they adopted the surname of Nutt. It does get somewhat complicated from then on...but stranger than fiction, could ancient surviving ancestors of the Nutts perhaps have played some kind of role in inventing some of this shite? I doubt it. Those Nutts were better known by their texticular prowess and for their victorious exhuberance, many times maniacally waving small wooden bats known as "da wood".
All this shite was invented back in the Coliseum days when Christians were being fed to wild lions. Romans frequently played a game similar to "keep-away" with the hungry cats called "Your Nutts or Mine", but many times, they actually used wild boar nutts instead of a football. The elusive techniques used in "Your Nutts Or Mine" evolved into what is now referred to as "The Wildcat". The term "Wild Rebel" is actually a misnomer with the exception that a few wild rebels did survive with their nutts intact during those times. Subsequently, they adopted the surname of Nutt. It does get somewhat complicated from then on...but stranger than fiction, could ancient surviving ancestors of the Nutts perhaps have played some kind of role in inventing some of this shite? I doubt it. Those Nutts were better known by their texticular prowess and for their victorious exhuberance, many times maniacally waving small wooden bats known as "da wood".
This post was edited on 9/9/09 at 11:15 am
Posted on 9/9/09 at 11:58 am to DCRebel
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The only 100% correct statement that has been said here is that Arkansas and Darren McFadden brought this formation into vogue in 2006.
ftw
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