Essentially The RPO is just choosing an OPTION to either Run or Pass.
Louisville and the Tennessee titans run an rpo that allows the qb the option to run as well.
youll see the qb read the perimeter. pull the ball and act like hes going to take off, then when the corner bites he throws it to the wide open wr in the flats.
So, although originally, its not a zone read or triple option its become more of a hybrid with athletic qbs.
I actually started a thread last season asking why we couldn't do that exact same thing and was told by many a X's and O's guru here at CiS "That's not how it works"
fkn lulz
To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with this concept at all. I think it's a fantastic scheme when you have the personnel to pull it off. But you did recognize that it's a hybrid, and I think all they were trying to establish is that if this RPO/Read Option hybrid is what we're referring to, I wish they'd call it something else because it get's confusing.
To all of the above, there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the RPO is supposed to do. As I mentioned in Cane Dynasty's thread last year, what he's asking for is primarily an RPO with a built in
scramble at the end. Sure. QBs have the option to scramble on any pass play anyway.
YES, there are some teams that add the QB option run at the end and turn the RPO into a triple option, but the RPO by and large is optioning off a totally different defender than the zone-read (optioning off a DE). What Canezum described is the triple option type play Clemson and Auburn sometimes run. For whatever reason, there is just a continued misunderstanding of the RPO, why it exists and what it's supposed to really do.
Always ask yourself "who is the player being option'd off?"