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The Triple Option

leftybuff said:
To me, that is the small difference that makes Frazier the best of the group of Hagan, Holieway and Frazier. TF broke a lot of arm tackles. Any of the three were phenomenal.
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I'd think Miami and Florida would agree with you. Florida was the second right? It was like 62-24 or some ****.
 
OU had an epic trick play (9:23 on video is the start of that play) against the Cornheads in their 1985 game. Will post the exact times of notable plays later today.

 
Sometimes I will lurk at HuskerMax and this article caught my eye: http://www.omaha.com/huskers/footba...cle_328172e0-ee1d-5111-ac2a-3a2366a45abb.html

Very good read.

Good description of Frost's offense...think of it as a cross between physical football of the 1990's and Chip Kelly's offense at UO. I didn't watch UCF football last season but you could read about how Frost was concerned with how soft UO at the time was while UCF was able to manhandle Auburn who manhandled UO in that BCS championship game.
 
https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo.../tulane-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster

Added Tulane to the list since I watched Willie Fritz's offenses during some of those FCS playoffs for Sam Houston State and they could be explained as a modernized version of the triple option plus he coached at Georgia Southern.

This will be Fritz's third year in New Orleans and this looks like a possible breakthrough season for the Green Wave.

https://www.underdogdynasty.com/ame...-fritz-james-ruse-adkins-daniels-wright-joyce

Recruiting appears to be going well as well.

Fritz on the difference between Navy's triple option and Tulane's triple option below.

 
Jalapeno said:
And here's a treat for everyone:

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My folks came to town that weekend and I took my dad to that game. Somehow, he had no recognition of CU going undefeated the previous season and losing to ND, costing the team the national champsionship. It was this game, seeing it with his own eyes, that he suddenly respected the CU football team.

While silly, it was worth not calling him out. It got my dad to overrule my mom and drop a couple of hundred bucks to send me to the Orange Bowl game for the second year in a row!
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*bump*

Keneesaw State is tied with Georgia State at the half with 14. Going to be fun to watch some triple option.
 
I grew up in San Angelo, TX. Our high school in the mid 60’s was coached by Emery Ballard. He took the triple option and parts of Bill Yeoman’s Veer and developed the beginnings of The Wishbone.

With it, he took a team that was often overmatched in size and won the State Championship. I was at the championship game held at the University of Texas stadium in Austin.

Of course Coach Ballard was hired as an assistant at UT where he instituted The ‘Bone. Cool story, eh?
 
8Jah said:
People knew how to beat the triple option by the mid 90s. I think it's effective now because it is so rare that defenses don't scheme for it, and can't do much with a week to prepare.
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Or the run and shoot...
Love,
CSU
 
SI article trying to explain how Army almost beat Oklahoma, but goes into an extensive history of the triple option. CU is mentioned several times.
DeBerry helped Bill McCartney and Colorado install the triple option in 1985, three years and five wins into McCartney’s tenure there. “He called and said, ‘Things aren’t going so well. Would you help?’” Big Ten Network analyst Gerry DiNardo, then McCartney’s offensive coordinator, remembers the reaction in ’85 when his head coach announced the offensive switch during an alumni gathering. Someone in the crowd raised his hand. Coach, please tell me the first play of the game won’t be dive, the man said. “Bill looked at him and said, ‘I suggest you get to the game for the second play.’” Four years later, the Buffaloes won a national championship.
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The I bone would rock it in today's game with so many dual threat QBs...ie Kordell. In the old days we'd bet on how many fumbles, bad pitches and if there would be more than 10 passes in a game.
It was fun to watch if executed correctly, greasy fast backs that had zero catches in 4 yrs.
As I recollect few of the RBs that came from the wish did very well in the league...they couldn't catch a ball to save their life.
 
leftybuff said:
I played in a triple option offense. We were less talented than a lot of teams we beat the ever living daylights out of. It is an awesome machine when run well. It is negated by the speed at the NFL level, but it can still be effective in CFB.
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We did too. Started in a dead T formation but the fullback moved up eventually and ended in a shallow wishbone for almost the whole season. Our QB was also our starting strong side LB (most of our players went both offense and defense, small school challenges), and was more likely to win hardest hit than any offensive helmet award. No lineman was over 190# and most were under 170#.
That said we were undefeated in league play. Would never have been able to do it in another offense.
 
leftybuff said:
I played in a triple option offense. We were less talented than a lot of teams we beat the ever living daylights out of. It is an awesome machine when run well. It is negated by the speed at the NFL level, but it can still be effective in CFB.
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I'm willing to bet the OU NFL level middle LB was extremely tired of Army's non-NFL level fullback by the end of the game.
 
Versions of the spread use triple concepts. Those spread offenses simply replace the advantage of blocking angles with athletes in space, but the concepts are similar.
 
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