Is the option coming back/ already back in style?

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I feel as if that offense is coming back in style, with all these spread and zone option read offenses springing up. You have Tebow winning the Heisman runningin a option zone offense. LSU going to the title game with using Perrilloux as a change of pace running QB. Oregon and Dixon Illinois and Juice and Eddie McGeeMizzou and Chase Daniel GT hiring Paul Johnson to run the option with Nesbitt and Dwyer at RB More and more teams are using their QB's as running backs,and even more will after Tebow's success last year. I think it's going to be here for awhile. Basically every team in the SEC has a running option atthe QB position, and the Big 10 and ACC are slowly adding more and more running options at QB too. Is this going
 
It's not going to be as prevalent as it once was, defenses are better prepared for it. But some schools with the right players can definitely have successwith it. I hope more teams run it, college football is a lot more fun to watch with the option word to T. Frazier.
 
My HS only runs a Triple Option. You really do need the right players to do it right. I think only a select few schools ill do it. You need a really disciplineteam to run an option offense.
 
Like said, you need the right players to do it. Florida has the right players to do it. The problem is, any great defense will be able to stop it. Take a lookat what it is Georgia did to the Gators earlier this season. Great preparation with great players equals great success if executed greatly.
 
Nah I don't think a full option attack will succeed, but something like what Florida did last year and what LSU and VTech is doing this year. A two QBsystem where in alotta times the key is the ability of the backups ability to run the ball.

Plus alotta teams are utilizing their QB's as RBs. Idk I see more and more teams using this option read in their offense. Like in the SEC, the only teamsthat don't have some variant of the option is Kentucky and Georgia, and UK will probably go back to it if Pulley is the QB next year.
 
I would say it's a different kind of option.

When you have players like:

Dennis Dixon/Jonathan Stewart/Jeremiah Johnson
Pat White/Steve Slaton/Noel Devine
Juice Williams/Rashard Mendenhall

It's hard not to utilize the players you have. I may be an Oregon fan, but I am being completely honest in saying that Dennis Dixon ran the spread-optionto perfection. His ball fakes were ridiculous and half of the time I didn't know who had the ball.

The option of today's game is far more effective and allows for an array of options. The triple option is too predictable IMO. The zone-read allows for thequarterback to either:

1. Hand the ball to the RB
2. Fake one hand-off, then either pitch it or hand it off (to either a RB, WR, TE)
3. Fake the hand-off and throw it downfield
4. Fake the hand-off and pass and run it.

I really am amazed at how Dixon could read the entire defense and decide between those options and sometimes more. I commend all spread-option quarterbacksthat can effectively run that offense.
 
Here are some examples of how the spread-option is tearing up opposing defenses. And let me say this, I want to put more highlights in from other teams, but Idon't know what happened during what game or anything, so please don't get the idea like I'm trying to turn this into an Oregon thread, becauseI'm not. I'm just showing examples of what I know and how it's been utilized. So please, post more videos and stuff!

In this first clip, look at how the players are lined up on the field. Then notice how the RB (Johnson) is lined up at wideout and motions into the backfield.Watch and see the options that Dixon has as soon as he snaps the ball and ultimately scores.



This second clip is a highlight reel of the Oregon @ Washington game earlier this year. There are MANY great examples of how this new option is being used.There are some really great fakes in this clip. I recommend just watching some and see how it works and stuff.
 
It's coming back in style but if you don't have variety from year to year well disciplined teams can blow it up.
 
this kind of offense is easy to destroy if carefully planned for, VERY EASY to destroy

or if its run by this man....
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the option is only gonna work if you have a passing game to complement it. i dont think fran got that memo, this fool would run it damn near every play.
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Originally Posted by tmay407

this kind of offense is easy to destroy if carefully planned for, VERY EASY to destroy
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or if its run by this man....
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the option is only gonna work if you have a passing game to complement it. i dont think fran got that memo, this fool would run it damn near every play.

that's what i was trying to say. you have to have the passing aspect for it to work, but more and more teams are bringing it out.
 
My spread/Freeze-option game is mean on NCAA 2008...

For those who say it is a gimmick or it is easy to stop.....Why do you think that????
 
My spread/Freeze-option game is mean on NCAA 2008...

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that's what i was trying to say. you have to have the passing aspect for it to work, but more and more teams are bringing it out.

yep, and youre exactly right. a lot of the teams are lucky though and have a qb that can strictly pass, and a qb that can strictly run so their two qb sets areperfect for the option/pass game. i think theres really only one disadvantage of the two qb set though, it kinda lets the defense know what youre intending todo. for instance (ill use lsu), when perilloux comes in to the game, chances are hes gonna be running and scrambling, so the defense knows to adjust for that.when flynn comes in, chances are hes gonna be passing the ball, so the defense can adjust to that as well. if you have a man like dennis dixon, who can doboth, its pretty tough to stop though.
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i think true option offense just about stopped after the 2002 rose bowl....like someone said you have to have a passing game these days.
 
how is this offense easy to destroy? the spread option is dominating college football right now. don't be suprised if 90% of offenses are using this in thenext few years.

if executed correctly with the right personnel, there is no stopping it.
 
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how is this offense easy to destroy?
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if we're talking about the option, just have the defensive ends keep outside containment while mirroring the QB, than keep a linebacker mirrored overthe pitchman. I was watching the California state championship over the weekend, and De La Salle used this defense against a team that ran the option and De LaSalle had that QB and offense looking so disorganized. De La Salle won by the way
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the spread option is dominating college football right now. don't be suprised if 90% of offenses are using this in the next few years.
90% of offenses, aren't we getting a bit too carried away here?
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You think the spread is unstoppable, go ask Pittsburgh (of all people) what they did to West Virginia.
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Originally Posted by MART1N PAYNE

90% of offenses, aren't we getting a bit too carried away here?
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You think the spread is unstoppable, go ask Pittsburgh (of all people) what they did to West Virginia.
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I know, right? Not like Pat White missed half that game or anything... OH WAIT, he did!

And Illinois beat some team that's going to the national championship by using it, also.
 
i think it can work as a trick type of play every now and then, but once defenses know it's coming regularly, its gonna get blown up every time. NFL endsand olb's will shade outside and work their way in.

the jets caught us off guard once and ripped a decent gain, but every other time, our def got to the qb or rb in the backfield. their only gains came becauseof missed tackles. but it was pretty useless.
 
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i think it can work as a trick type of play every now and then, but once defenses know it's coming regularly, its gonna get blown up every time. NFL ends and olb's will shade outside and work their way in.

the jets caught us off guard once and ripped a decent gain, but every other time, our def got to the qb or rb in the backfield. their only gains came because of missed tackles. but it was pretty useless.
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I thought we were talking about college? I know the option gets blown up in the league... them dudes are all professionals.
 
I thought we were talking about college? I know it gets blown up in the league... them dudes are all professionals.


Correct me if I'm wrong...but don't the Packers use some spread in their offense?
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Originally Posted by dr funk 13


Correct me if I'm wrong...but don't the Packers use some spread in their offense?
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Yeah, they use quite a few 4-5 receiver sets. I was talking about the option being used in the pros, though, my bad.
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Originally Posted by Chester McFloppy

I know, right? Not like Pat White missed half that game or anything... OH WAIT, he did!

And Illinois beat some team that's going to the national championship by using it, also.
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so what you're saying is, an offense that relies on one person is the future of college football?
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i would've thought that oregon fan would've learned his lesson by now.When Pat White was in that game, they still weren't effective. And OSU just had trouble against mobile QBs, not the option in particular. Ask Jake Locker
 
Originally Posted by MART1N PAYNE


so what you're saying is, an offense that relies on one person is the future of college football?
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i would've thought that oregon fan would've learned his lesson by now. When Pat White was in that game, they still weren't effective. And OSU just had trouble against mobile QBs, not the option in particular. Ask Jake Locker
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It's not that it *relies* on a certain player, but when a certain player knows how to run the offense almost flawlessly it's nearly impossible tostop. I'm not saying it's unstoppable by any means (see Oregon Ducks after Dennis Dixon went down), but it's coming back in style because certainplayers / teams can make it very, very effective.
 
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