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Triple Option Obsolete?


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It's finally got too hard for the NCAA to allow this to continue and then to say they were concerned about player safety. With the new rules, I would hope when we go against any school with a history of using them, the staff would be all in the referees' ears from the time they step on the field. 

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I believe that the service academies are the only ones in Division I that still use it.  The coach that is now at Tulane used it when he was at Georgia Tech but I don't believe that he is using it at Tulane. 

The service academies have usually been over .500 with that formation over the last 10-15 years.  It seems to work for them and I'm a little surprised that Army is trying to change it.  It's too early yet to know if it will be abandoned totally.  

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Very few teams actually read the triple option anymore and most of the concepts can be run from the spread.  The midline from the spread is still a lethal play.  If you are willing to play a two back spread, you can still do most of what you want.

It was a good fit for the service academies for the type of athletes they have to play.  Spreading the field and matching athletes with others will not work out well for them.

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