Army/navy not bowling

[CajunNation]

The only thing good about Army Navy game is nostalgia and tradition. The football played by less skilled players is the norm for decades. But still fun to watch.

The idea that option football is played by lesser talented players at small time schools is not grounded in reality.

If you have the right staff, that signs the right players, it is a beautiful and powerful style of play.

Army had not been very good for a while. Then, they hired Jeff Monken from the Paul Johnson coaching tree.

10 years
5 Bowls
3 P5 wins
1 win over ranked school


Either Paul Johnson or one of his students has been coaching at Navy for 22 years.

22 years
15 Bowls
19 P5 wins
5 wins over ranked schools


So, you say that offense would never work at a P5 school? Paul Johnson was HC at Georgia Tech for 11 years from 2007 to 2018.

11 years
9 Bowls
3 ACC Championship games
2 Orange Bowls
Finished as high as #8 in AP.

[CajunNation]

Georgia Tech should have never run off Johnson.
Georgia Southern should have never stopped running the option.
Nebraska should have never stopped running the option.

[NOCajun]

Remember the Wishbone options of Texas and OU?? And they were winning championships with it.

[Turbine]

Every offense that is seldom seen, and run correctly, can be extremely effective.

[CajunEXPRESS]

The idea that option football is played by lesser talented players at small time schools is not grounded in reality.

If you have the right staff, that signs the right players, it is a beautiful and powerful style of play.

Army had not been very good for a while. Then, they hired Jeff Monken from the Paul Johnson coaching tree.

10 years
5 Bowls
3 P5 wins
1 win over ranked school


Either Paul Johnson or one of his students has been coaching at Navy for 22 years.

22 years
15 Bowls
19 P5 wins
5 wins over ranked schools


So, you say that offense would never work at a P5 school? Paul Johnson was HC at Georgia Tech for 11 years from 2007 to 2018.

11 years
9 Bowls
3 ACC Championship games
2 Orange Bowls
Finished as high as #8 in AP.

I didn’t say anything you said I said. I did suggest their athletes are not among the best. As far triple option football? It’s been given up for the passing game for decades even before the safety rule changes. If it were all that good it would still be the dominant football.

[CajunNation]

I didn’t say anything you said I said. I did suggest their athletes are not among the best. As far triple option football? It’s been given up for the passing game for decades even before the safety rule changes. If it were all that good it would still be the dominant football.

Schools have been bullied into dropping it by boosters not because it isn't effective, but because the boosters are convinced that they will be become irrelevant. The opposite is true. Every school that has abandoned the option has never regained the same level of success without it.

If what you say is true that the offense is run be lesser skilled players, that just makes it even more impressive to me as a system.

It also offers insurance from NIL poaching and Coaching poaching.

[moorecajun]

Georgia Tech should have never run off Johnson.
Georgia Southern should have never stopped running the option.
Nebraska should have never stopped running the option.

Why did you stop, did you run out of options?

[Turbine]

Why did you stop, did you run out of options?

Nice pun

[ZoomZoom]

Why did you stop, did you run out of options?

Notice how many options was given…very subliminal humor.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Schools have been bullied into dropping it by boosters not because it isn't effective, but because the boosters are convinced that they will be become irrelevant. The opposite is true. Every school that has abandoned the option has never regained the same level of success without it.

If what you say is true that the offense is run be lesser skilled players, that just makes it even more impressive to me as a system.

It also offers insurance from NIL poaching and Coaching poaching.

Your last sentence is something I never thought about. This is very true. Would not be a bad idea for smaller struggling schools to implement.