Oregon state to run the option?

[JJacket]

We've been on the national radar ever since 2008. We have a national identity and nobody can say GT without also mentioning the TO. If nobody has considered our offense up to now, they never will. I dont even think anybody in the group of five runs our offense outside of the academies?

That first year, 2008, was so confusing. I didn't know who had the ball or where it was going or what we were doing. My dad would complain that Johnson was the incorrect pick for the job. Thankfully, Josh Nesbitt, Jon Dwyer, Roddy Jones.....(I could name the entire team) were there to win us over.

Nowadays, I try to make reads from my endzone seats before the play and after the snap. On the 2 point conversion against Tennessee, I yelled "PITCH!" as soon as defenders bit on TaQuan. I guarantee you he is 2X the QB today he was in the first game, and he was nearly lights out first game. You can see B-Backs (all of them) confidence growing. You can see the tosses to AB's and WR's looking more fluid. Run blocking looks solid with a few breakdowns here and there on the outside plays. Pass blocking needs a bit of coaching up.

 

[BigDanT]

Honestly and truely what reason would they have not to do it?? They recruit at just a slight disparity compared to us. And we all know them PAC 12 folk don't know how to defense anyway.

 

[johncu]

My favorite quote from the comments:

NO. Oregon State needs to run the spread like Purdue, Oklahoma State, Northwestern, Texas Tech and what Baylor did pre-sanctions.

3 of those teams ööööing suck, 1 improved because of a massive influx of cash, and the other is an outlier that I would argue inflated its stats against garbage defenses every week.

For every Oklahoma State team, there are 5 Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Syracuse teams that are awful. An offensive style is not a magic fix.

 

[ScionOfSouthland]

It doesn't have to be the triple, but when a team doesn't have the matchups they want the option is always what works. A couple years ago, the Packers lost just about everybody on offense except Aaron Rodgers. For 5 or 6 weeks, he was a $50m option QB. The Bears have been decimated by injuries this year. All of their starting WRs and TE were picked up on practice squad waivers. They needed a 2-point conversion to tie up the game on Monday. What did they dial up? An option.

A well coached option team makes up big time deficiencies, and it works at all levels of football. The biggest piece is the coach who knows how to run their version of it and adjust to what talent they can put on the field.

 

[txsting]

Honestly and truely what reason would they have not to do it?? They recruit at just a slight disparity compared to us. And we all know them PAC 12 folk don't know how to defense anyway.

One reason might be what offenses the high schools run out there. In GA there are still a fair number of running offenses....is west coast HS ball like we envisage it, with like 9 WR spreads?

 

[MeatWrench]

We've been on the national radar ever since 2008. We have a national identity and nobody can say GT without also mentioning the TO. If nobody has considered our offense up to now, they never will. I dont even think anybody in the group of five runs our offense outside of the academies?

We've had three strong to great seasons out of 9.

We've had one bad season out of 9 (even though we still beat top 10 F$U, which was excellent).

We've struggled to beat the big teams on the schedule over CPJs tenure.

I think there is absolutely room to improve the national perception of the TO if we can display some measure of consistency. I.e consecutive seasons of good to great football.

To that end, I feel like our o-line now is vastly advantaged over prior years when it comes to getting up to speed on blocking schemes. These last few groups came into a program where the o-line guys ahead of them had four years in the program with guys ahead of them that had also 4 years experience. Sort of like perpetual motion now with the knowledge transfer at the player level... or maybe I am crazy.

 

[southendzoneBEE]

We've had three strong to great seasons out of 9.

We've had one bad season out of 9 (even though we still beat top 10 F$U, which was excellent).

We've struggled to beat the big teams on the schedule over CPJs tenure.

I think there is absolutely room to improve the national perception of the TO if we can display some measure of consistency. I.e consecutive seasons of good to great football.

To that end, I feel like our o-line now is vastly advantaged over prior years when it comes to getting up to speed on blocking schemes. These last few groups came into a program where the o-line guys ahead of them had four years in the program with guys ahead of them that had also 4 years experience. Sort of like perpetual motion now with the knowledge transfer at the player level... or maybe I am crazy.

I agree that the national perception of the offense could get better as well. People know it exists, obviously, but most don't believe in it completely. I believe this offense can yield a final four appearance one day so until then I don't think it's peaked.