The Flex Option Offense

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Interesting Observations

The following quote is from Lou Cella, O-Line coach extraordinaire and co-owner of the great Flexbone Association site and Flexbone Forum (both of which I have been avidly following for years, btw.)

How many athletic scholarship players did Navy have on Saturday (23 Oct 2010)?
A: zero

How many athletic scholarship players did Notre Dame have on Saturday?
A: 85 on roster

What was Notre Dame's 2010 recruiting class overall rank as compared to all Division 1 schools?
A: #20 (on average)

What was the score on Saturday (I was there and for the press conference afterwards)?
A: 35-17

Oh yeah, and Army is 4-3--most likely 5-3 after Sat. afternoon (I'll be there).
How many athletic scholarships do they have?
A: 0

They (Army) start running triple option and all of the sudden they are up for their first bowl game since 1996...
I rest my case.

Food for thought.

Monday, September 27, 2010

I read the following post at Coach Hugh Wyatt's great Double Wing site, www.coachwyatt.com, the other day and just had to get his permission to repost it. I particularly like Coach Wyatt's reply (shown in bold text)

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*********** As a fan of Georgia Tech and Navy, I'm accustomed to reading derogatory comments about triple option-oriented offenses from fans even more clueless than me, and Tech fans in particular enjoy referring to Paul Johnson's offense as "our high school offense," primarily hoping that no one else in southern 1-A college ranks starts running it.

Anyway, I started googling around a bit for the weekend's college results. Looks like option-oriented offenses did pretty well this weekend.

Georgia Tech wins on the road;
Navy wins on the road;
Air Force loses, but pushes # 7 Oklahoma to the limit, 24-27;
Army wins;
Georgia Southern wins;
The Citadel wins;
Wofford's wingbone gets a victory; Div. 2 Brevard College wins; Div. 2 Lenoir-Rhyne wins;
Div. 2 Carson-Newman (still running the old split-back veer) wins; Div. 3 Maine Maritime wins (and "only" gets 615 total yards in the process);
Div. 3 Springfield College wins (with over 500 yards rushing);
Div. 3 Ripon College wins;
Cal junior college College of San Mateo wins;
and Shorter College from the NAIA ranks wins.

Just wanted to pass along the above, thinking you might get a kick out of it.

Dan Walker
Tallahassee, Florida

That is great. Really good research.

I don't think many opponents will take up unconventional offenses until Georgia Tech provides them cover by winning something really big, and even then I don't think too many guys at the college level will swing over, because it’s not politically popular to run the ball. And at the high school level it gets the quarterback's father on your ass, and sometimes that's all it takes to get your fired.

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Coach Smith

Saturday, September 11, 2010

01/11/01

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

No Football For You!

Well, it looks like I'll be sitting out this season. It wouldn't be appropriate to go into it now, so I won't.

If anyone on an option staff needs any help, you can contact me at coach.steve.smith@gmail.com . If nothing else, I can throw some ideas out there.

Coach Smith

Monday, June 28, 2010

Cumberland University Flexbone Camp A Success

Players from Middle and East Tennessee and Central Kentucky were on hand for a hot but productive camp. Sorry about the low number of pics – it’s hard to snap ‘em and coach, too. (Anyone game for creating a hat-mounted “Coach-Cam??” On second thought… probably not a good idea!)