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Is there a reason teams don't run a little triple option every now and then?

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Twhizman said:
JJ was an assistant coach at Oklahoma in 71-73.friends there say him and switzer helped the head coach implement it then.it was derived from Darrell royals option offense at Texas .
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JJ knew how to defend it knew it's key reads.
 
Twhizman said:
JJ was an assistant coach at Oklahoma in 71-73.friends there say him and switzer helped the head coach implement it then.it was derived from Darrell royals option offense at Texas .
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Yeap. JJ ran wishbone as HC at OKS before getting the Miami job. He even joked about bringing it to the Canes but he had the brains to go with our pro style and change defense to 4-3 instead. See, he was a coach not just an ego. JJ saw chance to beat OU and NE option style attacks with Miami talent and speed and crush them with pro offense. Together, him and Howard changed college football.
 
I know we don't usually post stuff abut other teams but this is relevant. Nebraska didn't just run triple options all day. They had several other plays, shovel passes, play actions, screens, counters, draws etc. And they had very well coached and overall great athletes running their system.

 
When i was in highschool we played a team that ran one of the most unique offenses i can remember seeing in football. They essentially ran a triple option attack for about 70 percent of the game but then would randomly audible into a shotgun spread set from the triple option set and would start slinging it down the field. They won states that year and destroyed us it was literally so confusing defending them always wondered if i would ever see something similar in college but never have.
 
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Trescerocinco said:
When i was in highschool we played a team that ran one of the most unique offenses i can remember seeing in football. They essentially ran a triple option attack for about 70 percent of the game but then would randomly audible into a shotgun spread set from the triple option set and would start slinging it down the field. They won states that year and destroyed us it was literally so confusing defending them always wondered if i would ever see something similar in college but never have.
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Watch 1995 Nebraska vs Colorado. Nebraska lined up in a 3 wide shot gun set about 30% of the time and 2 wide receiver 1 back proset about 20% of the time that game and actually began killing them with short passes and QB draws. This is what I am talking about, People think Tom's Nebraska teams where all about the option but they adjusted to what a defense was trying to take away.
 
Teams all over the country run the triple option, just out of the spread. (and not as a primary offense)
 
3/4 years GT has a train wreck because they don’t have the perfect QB to run it right. The years they don’t they have so many stupid turnovers on last second handoffs and pitches. Every few years they get a QB who figures it out and they have a decent year.

But if you didn’t run it full time it would never be so fluid
 
Coach Macho said:
Teams all over the country run the triple option, just out of the spread. (and not as a primary offense)
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Correct. Absolutely comical to read so many posts pretending the concepts are obsolete and that Miami ran it out of business.

Pure wanna believe

One reason the shotgun version came into vogue is that fumbles are reduced. The quarterback exchange is deeper in the backfield instead of three feet from crashing defensive tackles. Also, the inside pitch is forward instead of backward, meaning it is a harmless incompletion instead of a fumble.
 
Twhizman said:
JJ was an assistant coach at Oklahoma in 71-73.friends there say him and switzer helped the head coach implement it then.it was derived from Darrell royals option offense at Texas .
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Texas was a fullback-based plodding wishbone. When Oklahoma debuted the wishbone in midseason 1970 against Texas as a surprise tactic it was an astonishing variance. The Sooners were flash around the corner with Greg Pruitt and Joe Wylie. Everyone watching across the nation was stunned. Yes, it was technically the same offense but taken to an entirely different level. Oklahoma was a huge underdog but jumped out to a 9-0 lead before Texas adjusted and won big.

Still, coming out of that game you could see which program would become the dominant wishbone force.

Jack Mildren was the greatest wishbone quarterback of all time. I realize not people remember him anymore. But he had the angles and the instincts and the clever fakes and running ability. None of the subsequent Oklahoma quarterbacks matched him. It was unfortunate that Mildren didn't have a full career as wishbone quarterback instead of merely the final season and a half. Otherwise it would be consensus that he was the best ever.

The 1971 Oklahoma team that lost the legendary game to Nebraska was only a moderate defensive team. And that is probably being kind. A year later the Sooners began a run of terrific defensive teams led by players like the Selmon brothers. But the quarterbacking was too a big dropoff after Mildren was gone and they lost a game at Colorado that the 1971 team would have won handily. Oklahoma allowed double digits only three times in 1972 but the high water mark was that game at Colorado, in a 20-14 defeat.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Texas was a fullback-based plodding wishbone. When Oklahoma debuted the wishbone in midseason 1970 against Texas as a surprise tactic it was an astonishing variance. The Sooners were flash around the corner with Greg Pruitt and Joe Wylie. Everyone watching across the nation was stunned. Yes, it was technically the same offense but taken to an entirely different level. Oklahoma was a huge underdog but jumped out to a 9-0 lead before Texas adjusted and won big.

Still, coming out of that game you could see which program would become the dominant wishbone force.

Jack Mildren was the greatest wishbone quarterback of all time. I realize not people remember him anymore. But he had the angles and the instincts and the clever fakes and running ability. None of the subsequent Oklahoma quarterbacks matched him. It was unfortunate that Mildren didn't have a full career as wishbone quarterback instead of merely the final season and a half. Otherwise it would be consensus that he was the best ever.

The 1971 Oklahoma team that lost the legendary game to Nebraska was only a moderate defensive team. And that is probably being kind. A year later the Sooners began a run of terrific defensive teams led by players like the Selmon brothers. But the quarterbacking was too a big dropoff after Mildren was gone and they lost a game at Colorado that the 1971 team would have won handily. Oklahoma allowed double digits only three times in 1972 but the high water mark was that game at Colorado, in a 20-14 defeat.
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That line with the selmon brother's has to be one of best of all time.especially lee Roy that's one big strong person.I've seen him throw offensive lineman around and take big backs down with one arm.I met him when I was kid he and his family are some the nicest people you'd ever meet.dad use to have a bbq place around lake eufaula Dewey runs it now.
 
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