Question for Georgia Southern fans
Should GS make the move to FBS do you think they will be able to continue running the TO offense. I know no one is currently running it with any big time success. I know Georgia Tec uses it but is never really a contender for anything. Am I forgetting any other schools. Just wanted your point of view and good luck this weekend.....Its great to be a Mountaineer ( even though we aren't playing any more this year :D
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appstate91
Should GS make the move to FBS do you think they will be able to continue running the TO offense. I know no one is currently running it with any big time success. I know Georgia Tec uses it but is never really a contender for anything. Am I forgetting any other schools. Just wanted your point of view and good luck this weekend.....Its great to be a Mountaineer ( even though we aren't playing any more this year :D
Sure. It's all relative. There are only like 4 teams using the offense in I-A so you're comparing their relative success with everybody else running "conventional" offenses.
If as many teams ran the Triple option as run the spread you would see a few more having big time "success."
I have seen plenty of so-called spread teams or pro-style teams that really stink on offense. Nobody questions the legitmacy of their schemes though because everybody is running them...so they just blame the players.
If the option offense wasn't effective teams like Navy, Air Force, Army etc...would get blown out of the water every week. Hell, before we went back to the option we were TRYING to be an Air Raid team. It worked out for Troy and MTSU...not so much for us. There are plenty of sound offensive schemes. More than one way to skin a cat.
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I've had a theory for about a year now, and bear with me here:
The triple option is much more common/effective in the FCS because the officials at this level are grossly inferior and teams more frequently get away with holds and chop blocks.
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Tech won the ACC in 2009 so I wouldn't say they're NEVER a contender. I mean they later had to vacate that win due to other issues but they still physically won it. Tech's issues have pretty much been on the defensive side of the ball in the Paul Johnson era not the triple option. Heck with the way things eventually turned out they probably would've won the ACC this year had they even had a mediocre defense. The biggest challenge for T.O teams imo are bowl games and high profile games to start the season as the triple option doesn't have the greatest record against teams given more than a month to prepare for it.
If Tech can run it in the ACC, I'm not that worried about the Sun Belt. I'll worry about it in 50 years or so when they start talking about moving us up to the SEC or whatever is passing for the dominant Southern conference by then. (We'll all prolly be running the Chip Kelly jr. offense by then or something anyway xrotatehx)
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Honest question here. If GSU moves up, is anyone worried about recruiting since both GSU at Georgia tech run the option? Or do you think the recruiting will still shake out the same way it currently does?
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Uncle Rico's Clan
Honest question here. If GSU moves up, is anyone worried about recruiting since both GSU at Georgia tech run the option? Or do you think the recruiting will still shake out the same way it currently does?
Kids will still want to go to GT for the education and to play in a BCS school. But you'll get kids that want to go to GS that can't get into GT academically, but still want to stay in state. Plus, Paul Johnson is a ****e recruiter.
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Uncle Rico's Clan
Honest question here. If GSU moves up, is anyone worried about recruiting since both GSU at Georgia tech run the option? Or do you think the recruiting will still shake out the same way it currently does?
Thankfully we live in the middle of a High School football hotbed, and Georgia which has (in recent years at least) been out blue-chipping even Florida (though this kind of thing is very cyclical so who knows how long it lasts)
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Remember what happened the last time GSU went away from the TO? It's part of the program's identity. When you think of GSU, you think of the triple option, just as you think of ASU and the spread. They'll be fine.
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appstate91
Should GS make the move to FBS do you think they will be able to continue running the TO offense. I know no one is currently running it with any big time success. I know Georgia Tec uses it but is never really a contender for anything. Am I forgetting any other schools. Just wanted your point of view and good luck this weekend.....Its great to be a Mountaineer ( even though we aren't playing any more this year :D
I don't know what you mean by big time success, but I don't picture Navy winning a NC with any kind of offense. However they have played in bowls games every year other than last year since 2003, I believe. They have also dominated their bitterest rival, and won a large majority of the COC trophies in that period. I can't imagine they would do any better than that running any other offense.
As for Army and Air Force, 2010 was the first time in history that all three academies competed in a bowl.
If you include Navy in Sunbelt, CUSA and MAC teams, I would say they have big time success. I believe they will be in the big east soon. There are a lot of teams that run "conventional" or spread passing attacks that would never be considered.
GT, for as disappointing as they have been, did win an ACC title. One more than they had in some previous 20 odd years. They also played in a BCS bowl. Those memories are fleeting, but I believe it at least falsifies your statement.