Freeze option making a comeback?

[OburgOrange]

Without a doubt the best years of our program were running this offense. Interesting thread.

 

[Scooch]

A huge, and perpetually underrated, part of our success during the McPherson-Graves-McNabb era was that we were one of the few schools that recruited athletic, Black QBs. IIRC McNabb’s only big offers were us and Nebraska, which is insane in retrospect.

We really benefitted from the ignorance and myopia of the rest of college football. Coach Mac, P and DeLeone should get a lot more credit for their progressiveness.

 

[Bill Orange]

Take me back to the days of the "Whirly Bird Option" led by Buffalo Bill Hurley!

 

[SkyTopBus44]

A huge, and perpetually underrated, part of our success during the McPherson-Graves-McNabb era was that we were one of the few schools that recruited athletic, black QBs. IIRC McNabb’s only big offers were us and Nebraska, which is insane in retrospect.

We really benefitted from the ignorance and myopia of the rest of college football. Coach Mac, P and DeLeone should get a lot more credit for their progressiveness.

If you look at skill positions from that era many of the best players on both sides of the ball were also recruited as quarterbacks and ended up moving to other positions. This situation is another underrated part of our success during that era.

 

[sufandu]

Getting a SU mention is always cool, but I wish guys did their homework. As already mentioned, we used it for great success nearly a decade before McNabb. Then during the McNabb years we evolved away from it a little as we incorporated more pro concepts. Did Kevin Rogers even use the freeze option McNabb's senior year?

 

[NJCuse97]

Getting a SU mention is always cool, but I wish guys did their homework. As already mentioned, we used it for great success nearly a decade before McNabb. Then during the McNabb years we evolved away from it a little as we incorporated more pro concepts. Did Kevin Rogers even use the freeze option McNabb's senior year?

Graves and Mason epitomized the execution of the freeze option to me. Mason in particular because of his big arm. He would string out the D by moving down the line with runners in tow and then suddenly stop and unleash a bomb down the seam to a deep receiver like Marvin or Sir Mawn Wilson.

 

[TexanMark]

Haven't read the twitter thread yet...would blocking techniques for the option survive the new rules?

 

[CousCuse]

Haven't read the twitter thread yet...would blocking techniques for the option survive the new rules?

Army is ditching option football because of that rule change.

 

[TexanMark]

Army is ditching option football because of that rule change.

Yup...I'm no x and o guy but I thought the freeze option used cut blocks?