One thing that might make us football competitive.......

[leeinator]

Go find a triple option coach and work into it a passing game. It can be done and if done effectively, would be difficult for SEC powers to prepare for in just one week. We could recruit a nice stable of RBs and only need 2-3 stud receivers and a couple good TEs. A well-oiled triple option is very difficult to defend against, And a QB who can run it well himself plus be a fairly decent passer would be dynamite. I think the situation we find ourselves in, a good triple option could produce 7-9 wins pretty much every year with an occasional 10 win season. I would be good with that.

 

[PhredPhantom]

That sounds like the same general idea when we decided to be an air raid offense with Leach.

I actually liked that idea when he was here. It made it easier to compete for players because the players we would go after for the air raid were not the same players every other team was going after for a “standard” offense.

Leach was the original inventor of the air raid, had been using it longer than anyone else, and was better with it than anyone else.

I’m not saying it was ever a type of offense that would win championships but it would allow us, with our limited budget, to get the kind of players needed for it because other teams were recruiting a different kind of players.

The same principle would apply with a triple option offense. The problem is that there may not be a triple option coach who is as good with it as Leach was with the air raid.

Just my two cents.

 

[leeinator]

That sounds like the same general idea when we decided to be an air raid offense with Leach.

I actually liked that idea when he was here. It made it easier to compete for players because the players we would go after for the air raid were not the same players every other team was going after for a “standard” offense.

Leach was the original inventor of the air raid, had been using it longer than anyone else, and was better with it than anyone else.

I’m not saying it was ever a type of offense that would win championships but it would allow us, with our limited budget, to get the kind of players needed for it because other teams were recruiting a different kind of players.

The same principle would apply with a triple option offense. The problem is that there may not be a triple option coach who is as good with it as Leach was with the air raid.

Just my two cents.

Maybe a service academy coach. And they usually like to field strong defenses too. Yeah, not many choices out there. I noticed Navy was incorporating more passing into their triple option and seemed to be very effective. I had a hard time telling when they might pass or not.

 

[Maroon13]

Pretty much the players that Rocky recruited and then Jackie and Watson Brown coached up in 91-92 is the blue print. We were mostly an option offense. However we keep teams honest with Harris and Truitt at WR.