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Time to bring back the Wishbone?

CapstoneTider

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:biggrin2: Bring back the Bone in 06! Send all emails to Coach Shula and be sure to tell em you heard it on Tidefans.com!

Seriously, when was the last time Alabama lined up and ran the Triple Option? Was it during Stallings tenure with Palmer at QB? Seems like Dubose and co. may have lined up in the formation but did not execute the triple option. Just out of curiousity, if anyone happens to know.

By the way, I am just kidding about bringing back the BONE. Although in it's day, it was a thing of beauty.

Tebow might not appreciate the change in philosophy.
 
CapstoneTider said:
:biggrin2: Bring back the Bone in 06! Send all emails to Coach Shula and be sure to tell em you heard it on Tidefans.com!

Seriously, when was the last time Alabama lined up and ran the Triple Option? Was it during Stallings tenure with Palmer at QB? Seems like Dubose and co. may have lined up in the formation but did not execute the triple option. Just out of curiousity, if anyone happens to know.

By the way, I am just kidding about bringing back the BONE. Although in it's day, it was a thing of beauty.

Tebow might not appreciate the change in philosophy.
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It's all about "blocking schemes" Capstone. Doesn't matter if defenses are faster! :p

I say we put Johns, Castille, Darby and Coffee in the backfield and run the Notre Dame "Box" Formation or the "T" Formation!
 
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It would be interesting to see how the old wishbone attack of Bear Bryant would fare against todays defenses! I predict the Bear would have just as much success now as he did way back then!
 
GaBullDawg said:
It would be interesting to see how the old wishbone attack of Bear Bryant would fare against todays defenses! I predict the Bear would have just as much success now as he did way back then!
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I think that Coach Bryant would realize that defenses today are too quick and he would find something else to beat people with. I mean the he only used the wishbone for about a decade or a bit more. He was still winning without it. His big innovation was recruiting and he could get the best!
 
ldlane said:
I think that Coach Bryant would realize that defenses today are too quick and he would find something else to beat people with. I mean the he only used the wishbone for about a decade or a bit more. He was still winning without it. His big innovation was recruiting and he could get the best!
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Well, if defenses are quicker today, wouldn't it also make sense that offenses are too? Coach Bryant would win with the Bone today. You can win with any offense if you have the right personnel and they execute.
 
Well, Tommy we could say that athletes make the difference and the fact is that is true. However, I think the WB has gone the way of the "Notre Dame Box" and "T" Formation. AP found out how to defense it and I think that it is an basic part of every defensive scheme today.
 
Does anyone know the answer to my trivia question? When was the last time Bama executed, or attempted executing the Triple Option in a game?
 
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Remember when MSU beat Bama because they ran the wishbone offense?Just so happen's the man who invented the play beat the play remember?If you didn't catch it in the Jackson Clarion Ledger I'll try to find the story and post a link.
Could not get the article but it was MSU over #1 Alabama 6-3 in 1980.
 
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We ran it last year.

I can't remember exactly which game it was, but it was in the latter part of the schedule. (possibly Miss. State) We were inside their 30 and ran it two or three times. We didn't get much out of it, maybe a field goal.

The most vivid memory is of me grinning ear to ear at the sight of it.
 
I would grin too.

If we ever have a throwback day, I hope we run a few wishbone
formations. :) I wish there was a way that it could be effective in certain situations with our team but I suppose it doesn't cut the muster these days. Seems like we always have at least three SEC caliber running backs and two fullbacks on the roster, even during probation. Bet Jimmy Johns could run the heck out of it.

Anyway, enough about the Wishbone from me. I predict Shula and the Tide will land Tebow and start the tradition of Shula having a blue chip passing qb under center. We are hurting on the offensive line thanks to fRAN and once this predicament is remedy through continued great recruiting then Shula's offenses will become extremely potent(see Florida game for example). Right now, the QB and receivers are out of sync due to bad blocking. I can't imagine this not being correct over the next couple of years.

Also, Nikita Stover and a few more recruits at WR will help the situation along with the maturing of Bama's current stable of Receivers. We also need to get the TE involved more.

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As for the question, we did not run the triple option last year. We lined up in the wishbone formation and ran a dive play with Prothro vs. Auburn.

I don't know when the last time was that BAMA ran a triple option play. That is, where the qb fakes to the fullback, pulls the ball down the line and either pitches it to a trailing halfback or keeps it himself. It is probably way back in the early 80s before Coach Bryant retired.

I remember a few times that Coach Stallings ran a simple option pitch (without the fullback dive option), and fRAN ran the option several times. I don't know if the true "triple option" was ever used by fRAN.
 
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Does anyone know the answer to my trivia question? When was the last time Bama executed, or attempted executing the Triple Option in a game?
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I would have to say 1981 or 82. I know Perkins wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole.
 
Thanks for the replies fellas, so we probably haven't run the triple option since Bryant's last year, in all it's glory which included the fullback option.

Just think, there is a play somewhere, probably in the Liberty Bowl, where we ran it for the last time. Little did we know that I would bring up the occasion 23 years later to a gigantic yawn from the Bama community. :conf3:
 
Shula, like Perkins, is a dyed in the wool rock-ribbed believer in the pro-set offense and basically believes the wishbone and/or option attacks are the work of the devil. You can forget about any option plays being incorporated into our playbook. It's too bad, we've probably got the personnel(like Jimmy Johns) to execute some triple/double option plays....
 
ldlane said:
.. I think the WB has gone the way of the "Notre Dame Box" and "T" Formation. AP found out how to defense it and I think that it is an basic part of every defensive scheme today.
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Football rule changes and increased scholarship limitations were factors as well. Changes in the shifting rules hurt the ND Box. Limited number of players make the wishbone triple option attack not viable long term. It takes multiple quality QBs and backs.
 
Double option

rtrcam said:
I remember a few times that Coach Stallings ran a simple option pitch (without the fullback dive option), and fRAN ran the option several times. I don't know if the true "triple option" was ever used by fRAN.
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They used the double option. The FB went to the outside blocking for the pitch back.
 
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