Hear me out….. wishbone

#51
#51
OrangeTsar said:
Only halfway facetious here. With our three headed monster RB room. Throw a real curveball at Kirby on a play or two. At worst, Kirby probably burns a timeout when we break huddle with three backs
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I know you're not serious but the triple option requires impeccable timing and repetition...not something you just decide to do.
 
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#52
#52
OrangeTsar said:
Of course, it would have been interesting to throw it in against ETSU (where I am sure it would have enabled some impressive gains) just to give Kirby one more thing to worry about and prepare for. Even if we didn’t run it against UGA; just having to prepare for the possibility of it would have chewed up valuable game week planning and practice hours
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That's genius, Tsar. Don't need to risk it in a big game, just show it in a cupcake game and make the SEC worry about seeing it again all season long. lol, well thought out. That's valid for _any_ risk-reward trick play.
 
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Reminds me of the times Butch would run the RPO 99 percent of the time with little success.Opponents would run it once or twice for big gains.Knowing our defense practiced against it a lot.
 
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#58
wmcovol said:
Wishbone was a high turnover offense which was just one drawback. A lot of ball handling close to the LOS. I ran it in high school in the 70s. Alabama asst coach came in to our school & lectured our coach on it. Timing is critical.
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Today, you run the Wishbone if you can not run any other offense. If/when you get behind, you are in real trouble.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Only halfway facetious here. With our three headed monster RB room. Throw a real curveball at Kirby on a play or two. At worst, Kirby probably burns a timeout when we break huddle with three backs
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Defensive players are too athletic, big and fast for this to work in sec and big. Teams use this now when they are not as athletic as opponent, ie Army Navy. Wait that could be us against Ga.
 
#61
#61
jps2194 said:
Forget wishbone, run the double wing. We've already lined up in the formation a few times, now let's run some traditional double wing plays out of the formation. If you're not familiar - still have 3 back in the backfield - fullback essentially in same position and the two RB's are split out at the end of LOS and slightly in front of fullback. Some of the counter plays would work well against a team penetrating.

In the end, I trust our OC and JH to come up with some wrinkles.
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We won the 98 Sullivan County middle school championship with that offense at Ketron!
 
#62
#62
Virtually every offensive innovation will eventually be countered with reasonable success by a defensive innovation. Well-executed, the wishbone was a thing of beauty.

Oklahoma typically turned the ball over several times a game and still led the nation in total offense and rushing. If there is one record, besides our 1939 undefeated, untied, and unscored upon streak, that will never be broken, it is the series of rushing records established by the '71 Sooners. They "led the nation in both scoring (45 points average) and total yards (563 total yards average), and set an NCAA record by averaging over 472.4 (5196 in 11 games) rushing yards in a season. The team holds the current school record with 7.07 yards per rushing attempt and 7.6 yards per play as well as the records for 469.6 rushing yards (5635 in 12 games counting bowl game) and 566.83 yards of total offense per game. The team also holds the single-season rushing touchdowns record of 62 and rushing touchdowns per game record of 5.17."
 
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