The Option Offense - Making a Comeback?
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irafreak
All-American
To me it all boils down to coaching. Our defense will always be a force because of Bo. Just like TO's offenses were so refined by the end of his tenure. So as long as Bo is HC our D will be fine even if Carl and other's move on. The beauty of those TO teams was the entire coaching staff being together so long. Now the money is out there and people want opportunity to move up the ranks so keeping a great OC on our staff would be difficult.
Notre Dame Joe
All-Conference
Could you have kept Callahan's O with Bo's D or are the two mutually exclusive?
Callahan's offense was still inept at times. If I'm not mistaken, we were 0-19 every single game we were down at half in.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
If having Bo at the helm has proved nothing else to us, it's proven that NO OFFENSE is impervious to a proper defensive scheme. The Spread was so much the next great thing on offense that half of Div1A went to it - and Bo promptly shut it down in nearly every game he played against it.
The Option was a hell of an offense, yet time after time after time we saw a team capable of shutting it down. The biggest flaw in the Option, as we saw demonstrated so well by Iowa in the Orange Bowl. For every offense you run there's a defense capable of shutting it down, just like for every defense you run there's an offense capable of exploiting it. Sometimes a team just out-executes a great offense.
Returning to an Option-based offense wouldn't solve any problem Nebraska has now, it would just be a return to what we're used to. Just like on defense, we need a system we can execute and the personnel to do it. Once we have those, it won't matter what system we use, we'll score.
The Option was a hell of an offense, yet time after time after time we saw a team capable of shutting it down. The biggest flaw in the Option, as we saw demonstrated so well by Iowa in the Orange Bowl. For every offense you run there's a defense capable of shutting it down, just like for every defense you run there's an offense capable of exploiting it. Sometimes a team just out-executes a great offense.
Returning to an Option-based offense wouldn't solve any problem Nebraska has now, it would just be a return to what we're used to. Just like on defense, we need a system we can execute and the personnel to do it. Once we have those, it won't matter what system we use, we'll score.