Some dude on here tried to tell me RPO doesn't mean that Kayaks running the ball....WRONG! Good God people can sure be dumb!
That was me and no it doesn't mean Kaaya is running the ball. Our design of RPO is a RB handoff or quick pass. There's no option for Kaaya to keep it. You can incorporate that but then it's called a read option which everyone gets confused with RPO.
so what I saw on Saturday didn't really happen? Oh ok I see. Neither was all the faking like he had the ball and running didn't exist either...oh ok cool.
Kaaya *can* keep it and it would be effective for him to do it maybe once or twice, like he did vs Pitt to keep the defense from going all out for the run stuff. However that's not the design of the play. No OC in their right mind is going to call a play for Brad to run the football. If he does, it's his decision.
As for the Duke QB, Cutcliffe runs a zone read/read option where it's designed. Totally different concepts.
We have a section of RPO and another section of read option in our playbook where I coach, we designed our RPO package based on a clinic taught by James Franklin when he was at Vanderbilt. RPO, when done right is going to get you 6-7 yards a play and allow you the potential to bust big plays if you've got the playmakers to do it. It's designed to benefit average teams that are mismatched in terms of talent. Hence the reason Vanderbilt utilized it and we're using it. Extremely simplistic numbers game, simple OL assignment, no post snap reads, etc.