Pistol Offense?

[Fuzzy]

While writing a term paper for my Composition II class, i decided to write a comparison essay on Pro-style offense and Pistol offense. And i started to think would the Huskers benefit with such a offense. Now i don't know much about Tim Beck and his offensive history except at NU. But I'm wondering would he implement such a system and would it work to the advantage of the players on the offensive side of the ball. It seems to me that you can still run the zone-read with the pistol based offense and I've always heard that it based around the use of dual-threat QB's like Taylor Martinez, Cody Green and Bubba Starling. So I am curious if other Husker fans feel the same way? Could Nebraska run a Pistol based offense in the Big Ten and be successful with it?

[Ringer02]

They ran out of the pistol a few times in the spring game

[Fuzzy]

I didn't really notice it too much during the spring game. Truthfully i think they would be pretty good running the pistol as a base offense, especially since Bo likes to go after dual threat QB that are fast and shifty.

[huskerjack23]

I think Nebraska should run the Hawaii Run and Shoot Pistol.

[Enhance]

I think Nebraska should run an offense where we score a lot of points often.

[walksalone]

Tread lightly gents, or Blasted Imposter is gonna go all Charlie Sheen on ya...

[Blaze1up]

I don't care for that Nevada style offense, much rather see some ground-N-pound and spread them out.

[Saunders]

I don't care for that Nevada style offense, much rather see some ground-N-pound and spread them out.

Uh, that's what the Pistol is. Nevada (running the pistol) had 1,000 yard rushers at QB, HB, and FB... all in the same season.

[RedDenver]

Didn't we run out of the pistol quite a bit last season?

[The Dude]

I say we put Cody in the shotgun and throw bombs to KC Hyland for 4 quarters.

[Forge]

single back, smash mouth would be my preference. But, I would be happy with any style as long as it puts up points and takes the pressure off our defense.

[BIG ERN]

Yes, we can definitely be successful using this offense. Its like running a simple Ace formation, but in shotgun. I love the pistol.

[kchusker_chris]

Didn't we run out of the pistol quite a bit last season?

That's kind of what I was thinking. Currect me if I'm wrong, but the pistol is more of a formation than an "offense" with the back directly behind the QB, and the QB a couple yards closer to the line than in a standard shotgun passing down. That way he can read (zone-read) the defense better, and the play can move to either side of the field because of the position of the back.

 

Missouri uses it and everyone considers them a "spread" team.

 

I think you might have been comparing apples to oranges for your Comp II paper - hope that turns out OK.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

One of the better paper ideas i've ever heard of.

[Landlord]

This isn't a new idea. We did a ton of stuff out of the pistol last year, and will continue to do a ton of stuff out of the pistol next year. Some people have even referred to the new offense as a pistol offense.