Bobby Petrino's offense.

Favorite of all time would be the Wishbone, Veer/split veer. I am old school and love the option offenses along with other running/ball control offenses (like the power I). My favorite line in one of my all time favorite sports movies (Remeber the Titans) is when the assistants questioned the coach (D. Washington) about the small play book. Caoch stated....."it's called the veer gentleman, 6 plays...it's kind of like novacane, may take a while but it is effective."

I agree with others in that this "spread option" of today is basically a varation from the old single wing and wishbone.

My favorite offense is the spread option offense, particular the zone read spread that Oregon runs. When Chip Kelley took over at Oregon as OC in 2007 that offense just began to click and watching Dennis Dixon and Jonathan Stewart run it to near perfection was great to watch. I also like watching all of the different schools that run variations of the Wildcat, IE: Wild Cat, Wild Rebel, Wild Duck, Wild Turkey, and Wild Tiger. Apart from Chip Kelley's offense, I really enjoy watching Houston Nutt's variations on Gus Malzahn's Wildcat offense. It was awesome to watch Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Marcus Monk run wild in that offense, just think, if they had a quarterback worth anything, they could have won a national championship.

 

And for the second part of the question, I don't think we'll ever see a national power like Oklahoma, Ohio State, Florida, Michigan or Ohio State run the Wishbone or the Triple Option, but I do think Georgia Tech will continue to flourish under Paul Johnson and we may see it used by other teams around the country. I just think defensive players are too fast, skilled and well-taught for the Triple Option to make a full comeback.

For me it was the wishbone offense when run well.

 

Texas invented in the offense in my childhood and their early teams were a machine to watch.

 

Oklahoma under Switzer perfected it in my opinion.

 

Watching Thomas Lott, JC Watts, Steve Davis, Jamal Holloway and others run the bone was a beautiful thing. The use of counters, rubs and pitches in a fluid dance was an awesome sight and terrifying for a defense that did not have the abilities to stop each aspect.

 

I know that the rise of more athletic defenses in the LB corp and secondary brought the wishbone to an end, the other offenses such as spread option (WVU, Northwestern) and Air Force's variations are fun to watch but tough to come from behind with.

 

I think it comes somewhat circle but will probably never be the full house wishbone again.

 

Very good post imo, I agree with you. One that you didn't mention though was Bear Bryant and his Bama wishbone.............."Bear could take his (team) and beat yours or he could take yours and beat his".......Bum Phillips (former Houston Oiler Coach).

Very good post imo, I agree with you. One that you didn't mention though was Bear Bryant and his Bama wishbone.............."Bear could take his (team) and beat yours or he could take yours and beat his".......Bum Phillips (former Houston Oiler Coach).

 

I remember Bama's wishbone but for me it was much more "power" oriented than the fluid speed of Oklahoma. Alabama's backfield & QB greats in that era were Johnny Musso, Major Olgivie, Jeff Rutledge, Steadman Shealey, Richard Todd, and Tony Nathan - none of who were quite the burners of say: Greg Pruitt, Joe Washington, Billy Sims, Peacock, Lott, Watts, Overstreet, et al.

 

Still, the bone was the staple of the 70's and into the mid 80's.

Reading most of the post it seems that most prefer the run oriented offenses. I think that is because it is easier to watch running teams on TV. Passing teams and passing systems are harder to understand because you can not see what the route combinations or concepts are and what type of coverage defenses are running.

I think that Auburn will surprise people this year. The only problem is they will probably be no better than 4th in their division. I think Malzahn makes anyone a much better offense, so at a minimum I think Auburn will have at least an adequate offense.

 

 

During SEC media days I think I remember Auburn's HC saying that they would be a more traditional I-formation team this year. Should be interesting to say the least.

Reading most of the post it seems that most prefer the run oriented offenses. I think that is because it is easier to watch running teams on TV. Passing teams and passing systems are harder to understand because you can not see what the route combinations or concepts are and what type of coverage defenses are running.

 

I don't know. In a perfect world I would love to have my team throw 100% of the time, throwing all balance and common knowledge to the wind. It will never happen, but that is something that I would find really interesting if it actually worked.

I don't know. In a perfect world I would love to have my team throw 100% of the time, throwing all balance and common knowledge to the wind. It will never happen, but that is something that I would find really interesting if it actually worked.

 

It would be fun to watch.

 

I like teams that have a philosophical system and stick to it, run or pass.

WVU

It would be fun to watch.

 

I like teams that have a philosophical system and stick to it, run or pass.

 

Yeah, but unfortunately Leach's Air Raid is about as close as we will likely get.