Formations

[Mr. U]

Just ask Jim Harbaugh for his playbook. Anyone that can run a HB dive out of 495833 formations with 4938 different motion schemes needs to pass his knowledge on to others.

 

[Ohio Vol]

When was the last time an option team won the NC consistently?

When's the last time anyone won a national championship consistently? Seems I remember the last team doing it was...Nebraska. And they were running an offense that had supposedly been obsolete for 25 years.

01-02' Canes would beg to differ...

Also, imagine trying to overhaul our whole system to implement a full blown triple option attack...We wouldnt be able to recruit the necessary players to run that offense effectively. The linemen on those Nebraska teams were monsters...

Nebraska wasn't an option team. They were an I-formation team who used the option to set up their primary offense, which was based around "conventional" offensive plays. Their big home run play was the fullback trap. But if the option was working, and the defense kept keying inside and they could option outside...

The beauty of watching West Virginia, or Texas, or Utah, or Bowling Green, or Kent State, or Georgia Tech, or Navy, or ANY school running the option is that they don't need these pachyderms up front. They're able to pick up the kid who's 6'2" and 240 pounds, then bulk him up to 270. No major college with a "conventional" offense would take a second look at any of them, which means a decided recruiting advantage.

Option offense is a disaster. Absolutely no need for anything gimicky...

Lots of 2 TE sets. Ace formations with 2/3 receivers. Shotgun with 2/3 recievers with a TE in there blocking or running a route.

Alot of what USC did during the Leinart/Bush years.

You know what's not "gimmicky"? Winning some ******* games. I don't care if it's resurrecting the single wing, or if it's something built around a diamond cluster of receivers out of the pistol set, or what...winning some ******* football games on a regular basis is a hell of a lot more important than whether someone considers an offense "trendy" or "obsolete".

 

[Ohio Vol]

But they dont score points...

For example a few weeks ago GT rushed for over 300 yards on UGA and lost 42-10...

In the last four years, Georgia Tech has scored 473, 338, 446, and 449 points.