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I was joking with my boy the other day that we should've run the triple option this year. I was joking but then I thought about it seriously.

Think about it...

Our OL is trash
We have a QB that cannot throw (Rosier), and his biggest asset is his running ability
Our receivers a very good blockers
Mork could call all the fullback dive plays that he wants
Mork could also use his archaic plays that have "worked for the last 30 years)
We could go for it on fourth and short more often to keep out atrocious punters off the field
We have a lot of very talented running backs

These are the types of thoughts you have when you're team is 5-4 coming off three straight losses to UVA, BC and Duke :6fps6:

Just thought it could be an interesting topic, since this would obviously never happen
 
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There was a legit thread a while back calling for Miami to switch to the triple option offense.

Good times.
 
I use the Wishbone/Flexbone/Maryland I formation all the time in NCAA 2013.

It would be entertaining to say the least
 
A trash OL isn't going to make a Triple Option offense successful. You need different linemen for that system, not just crappy ones.
 
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MichiCANE said:
I was joking with my boy the other day that we should've run the triple option this year. I was joking but then I thought about it seriously.

Think about it...

Our OL is trash
We have a QB that cannot throw (Rosier), and his biggest asset is his running ability
Our receivers a very good blockers
Mork could call all the fullback dive plays that he wants
Mork could also use his archaic plays that have "worked for the last 30 years)
We could go for it on fourth and short more often to keep out atrocious punters off the field
We have a lot of very talented running backs

These are the types of thoughts you have when you're team is 5-4 coming off three straight losses to UVA, BC and Duke :6fps6:

Just thought it could be an interesting topic, since this would obviously never happen
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I always enjoy a well run triple option offense. I’m not saying I want it here , but I am curious to see a team like Ohio state , Oklahoma, or bama run it . Imagine if Paul jouhson landed a gig at a top program like that . Your offense is designed for playing with less talented players . I wonder if he would have 4 nattys if tech was full of 4 and 5 star recruits.
 
ilovetheoption said:
A trash OL isn't going to make a Triple Option offense successful. You need different linemen for that system, not just crappy ones.
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Even Bar Milo can dive at somebody's knees. If Paul Johnson was coaching this team and running the option with the exact same roster, I have zero doubt that we have, at most, 1 loss. Think about how much better the D could be with more than 30 seconds between series. That's how pathetic Ricks offense is. A 60 year old offense would crush his 30 year old offense.
 
SoGacane said:
I always enjoy a well run triple option offense. I’m not saying I want it here , but I am curious to see a team like Ohio state , Oklahoma, or bama run it . Imagine if Paul jouhson landed a gig at a top program like that . Your offense is designed for playing with less talented players . I wonder if he would have 4 nattys if tech was full of 4 and 5 star recruits.
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The entire offense is based on being able to compete with undersized/lesser talented players. Execution is a 100% premium in the triple option because if you make the wrong read, no amount of athletic ability is going to save you. If anything, playing this type of offense with a team loaded with talent would be a huge waste. There's a reason why all the service academies run the offense. It masks lack of athletes and requires total discipline to run. Not to mention, no quarterback in his right mind is signing up to play in that style offense. You're essentially a running back who gets hit on every play.

You guys do realize, every time Georgia Tech loses or gets shut down, Paul Johnson blames it on execution, right? He is more married to this offense than Richt or anybody is to theirs. In Paul Johnson's head, if his players executed the way he wants them to, they would be undefeated every single year.
 
SoGacane said:
I always enjoy a well run triple option offense. I’m not saying I want it here , but I am curious to see a team like Ohio state , Oklahoma, or bama run it . Imagine if Paul jouhson landed a gig at a top program like that . Your offense is designed for playing with less talented players . I wonder if he would have 4 nattys if tech was full of 4 and 5 star recruits.
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If Gag Tek was full of 4* and 5* kids they would be running a high octane spread attack.

Like everyone else that has 4* and 5* kids.
 
skillydoo said:
Maybe these last few games we get to see Realus George in on some plays.
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Don't think you will ever see him play. During practice when he first got here he got smashed by a LB and realized he was not as tough as he thought, never to be heard from after that.
 
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SoGacane said:
I always enjoy a well run triple option offense. I’m not saying I want it here , but I am curious to see a team like Ohio state , Oklahoma, or bama run it . Imagine if Paul jouhson landed a gig at a top program like that . Your offense is designed for playing with less talented players . I wonder if he would have 4 nattys if tech was full of 4 and 5 star recruits.
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4-5 star kids won't go to a triple option team. The NFL doesn't want Olineman that only cut block. They don't want WRs they are essentials extra linemen that catch a pass once per game. They don't want a QB that has 15 completions per year(99%of the triple option QBs that go pro end up as RBs). Even the RBs don't really transition well to the NFL unless they are just a beast athlete. The triple option RB has much different duties compared to an NFL RB. Even defensive players don't really want to go to a triple option school because if the offense is good they will rarely be on the field and not have much tape and if the O is trash they will be on the field all game long.
 
SoGacane said:
I always enjoy a well run triple option offense. I’m not saying I want it here , but I am curious to see a team like Ohio state , Oklahoma, or bama run it . Imagine if Paul jouhson landed a gig at a top program like that . Your offense is designed for playing with less talented players . I wonder if he would have 4 nattys if tech was full of 4 and 5 star recruits.
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It would fare extremely well. Maybe not multiple national titles but certainly effective. I have to laugh every time someone knocks Georgia Tech via the criteria of not winning a national title or thereabouts with this offense. They aren't threatening a title with any offense, given the personnel realities of that program. This isn't 1990 and lots more wiggle room including a bowl game against a down Nebraska team, and a split vote.

The option had its era. I still enjoy memories of Canes fans relentlessly mocking Tom Osborne after 1988 and especially 1991, when Osborne remained calm in the Orange Bowl postgame questioning and insisted there was no need to change his offense as opposed to simply fortifying the roster with better athletes everywhere. SAMs were none too bright, then as now, so they flooded the Miami-area sports radio shows with hours of ridicule at Osborne's expense. I was visiting from Las Vegas and called Hank Goldberg to agree with Osborne. Naturally Hank was so brave he cut me off and then spent minutes ridiculing myself and the idea that the option could still be successful at highest level.

BTW, one time I saw Hank Goldberg at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, drunk out of his mind late one night and basically stumbling around near Cleopatra's Barge. I mentioned some game and he waved me off, insisting that he had given up gambling.

Jimmy Johnson was a cool guy, though. I saw him several times in Las Vegas when he coached the Canes. In the early years not many people knew who he was. He would walk around barefooted and casual from blackjack table to blackjack table. He never stayed long at each one. Later when he coached the Cowboys, Johnson was so famous he couldn't make that walk without 10-20 people following him around. Of course, he generally was in town during weekends of big fights so it was jammed anyways.
 
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