Like I said before. Florida's base play is the zone read option. They won an NCAA championship in D1. Illinois didn't run the option a "couple times" Saturday. They ran it (including the triple option from shotgun) throughout most of the game. The option is not only alive and well, it is thriving. SPEED DOES NOT COUNTER THE OPTION !!! IT IS DESIGNED TO NEUTRALIZE SPEED!!!! Facing an option attack forces your defense to play assignment football and tackle well. It helps your defense. Besides, teams don't practice against their own offense all week, they practice against what the team they play will run.
Is the Option Dead?
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Like I said before. Florida's base play is the zone read option. They won an NCAA championship in D1. Illinois didn't run the option a "couple times" Saturday. They ran it (including the triple option from shotgun) throughout most of the game. The option is not only alive and well, it is thriving. SPEED DOES NOT COUNTER THE OPTION !!! IT IS DESIGNED TO NEUTRALIZE SPEED!!!! Facing an option attack forces your defense to play assignment football and tackle well. It helps your defense. Besides, teams don't practice against their own offense all week, they practice against what the team they play will run.
The option make speedy, gap control defenses have to read and react, because they have to play responsibilities, not just run up the field to sack an immobile QB. I saw LSU run it for and easy TD vs Florida and South Carolina, and UT walked in vs KSU with an option pitch. Mixing the power game, the spread and the option would be a stapple of Osbournes offense.
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You can't base the whole offense on the option any more than you can base it entirely on the prissy dink pass. A good offense blends zone blocking, trap blocking, iso plays, draws, screens, short passing and vertical passing in a comprehensive package. This is what Ozzy's offfense did for many years; they simply executed the power running game so well that it was almost impossible to stop. The difference is that Ozzy, as opposed to many other coaches, would stick to something until it was stopped. He also adjusted to his personnel. Maybe you weren't alive at the time, or were still wiping the snot out of your nose, but NU led the nation in passing a couple of times in the 70's.
A 4.4 40 is the same speed as it always was, and there are very few who actually run it. Put pads on, and almost noone does. Football speed comes from desire, attitude and determination. Desire, attitude and determination are a product of motivation and pride. Motivation and pride come from two sources: from coaching and from the players themselves.
"Black outs", or "white outs", or whatever else you want to call them, are pathetic gimmicks employed by drunken losers to try to feel important and to disguise their lack of knowledge about the game.
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I would sure hate to have a defense stocked with the "slow plodders" that you mentioned. If they are so average, how come many of them have been all-pro for many years? Poor, little, slow, untalented Will Shields...all-pro his entire career. Just retired. You don't have a clue what you're talking about.
You can't base the whole offense on the option any more than you can base it entirely on the prissy dink pass. A good offense blends zone blocking, trap blocking, iso plays, draws, screens, short passing and vertical passing in a comprehensive package. This is what Ozzy's offfense did for many years; they simply executed the power running game so well that it was almost impossible to stop. The difference is that Ozzy, as opposed to many other coaches, would stick to something until it was stopped. He also adjusted to his personnel. Maybe you weren't alive at the time, or were still wiping the snot out of your nose, but NU led the nation in passing a couple of times in the 70's.
A 4.4 40 is the same speed as it always was, and there are very few who actually run it. Put pads on, and almost noone does. Football speed comes from desire, attitude and determination. Desire, attitude and determination are a product of motivation and pride. Motivation and pride come from two sources: from coaching and from the players themselves.
"Black outs", or "white outs", or whatever else you want to call them, are pathetic gimmicks employed by drunken losers to try to feel important and to disguise their lack of knowledge about the game.
:asshat :bang :dunno :laughpound :boxosoap :LOLtartar
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LOL just to let you know that was a :sarcasm post. It was just pointing out that players are no bigger faster now then they were back in the 90's no matter how many people claim they are. I take it I can't get you to join the black out? :lol:
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Well was Nebraska really getting the all the big high profile recruits before under Osborne or just getting some and getting players that fit the mold for their offense and could play.
I can't remember to many of the Husker Line men getting 4 or 5 stars but some how some those guys became All American. I rather have the 6-1 290 guys that plays like a gorrila then the 6-5 330 guys that look like Tarzan and play like Jane.
Hard time thinking that Running backs arent going to get noticed that he would gets just as much of a look from the NFL running for 1400 - 1500 yards under the power I then he would playing for a Pro Set in college.
I can't remember to many of the Husker Line men getting 4 or 5 stars but some how some those guys became All American. I rather have the 6-1 290 guys that plays like a gorrila then the 6-5 330 guys that look like Tarzan and play like Jane.
Hard time thinking that Running backs arent going to get noticed that he would gets just as much of a look from the NFL running for 1400 - 1500 yards under the power I then he would playing for a Pro Set in college.
sorry about the prior, man...just frazzled.
Agree wholeheartedly with your feelings. I think a lot of these kids simply don't understand the dedicatoin and determinaton it takes to be a the top levels.