Tom osborne type football team

[Allworld]

How would i build 90s type nebraska team with tom osborne

[wryly]

First, you'll need to implement a preferred walk-on program.

Second, steroids.

Before long, you'll have around 200 uber buff roided farmboy preferred walk-ons on your team. Mix them with some scholarship skill players and let the winning begin.

That's how it worked in reality, anyhow. Since the option doesn't work in NCAA, you won't be able to recreate those Nebraska teams of yesteryear.

[Allworld]

Quote: Originally Posted by wryly

First, you'll need to implement a preferred walk-on program. Second, steroids. Before long, you'll have around 200 uber buff roided farmboys on your team. Mix them with some skill players and let the winning begin. That's how it worked in reality, anyhow. Since the option doesn't work in NCAA, you won't be able to recreate those Nebraska teams of yesteryear.

you know nothing first thing Nebraska didnt have a option offense it was a run heavy offense like Wisconsin but they mixed in option 25% of the time.

plus tom osborne players were not fuild on roids.

[wryly]

Quote: Originally Posted by Allworld

you know nothing first thing Nebraska didnt have a option offense it was a run heavy offense like Wisconsin but they mixed in option 25% of the time. plus tom osborne players were not fuild on roids.

95's Nebraska team (the best Nebraska team) with Frazier was undoubtedly a power option offense. I'm pretty sure that's how Osbourne himself described it. You might want to watch some videos of that team, since it seems like you haven't seen them play.

Everyone in the Big 8 knew Nebraska did roids. Most notably, Barry Switzer accused them of it over and over again. Here's an article where Osbourne admits it: "Osbourne says Cornhuskers have used steroids."

[KWCaneFan2013]

Quote: Originally Posted by wryly

95's Nebraska team (the best Nebraska team) with Frazier was undoubtedly a power option offense. I'm pretty sure that's how Osbourne himself described it. You might want to watch some videos of that team, since it seems like you haven't seen them play. Everyone in the Big 8 knew Nebraska did roids. Most notably, Barry Switzer accused them of it over and over again. Here's an article where Osbourne admits it: "Osbourne says Cornhuskers have used steroids."

That guys right....

[blkrptnt819]

Quote: Originally Posted by Allworld

you know nothing first thing Nebraska didnt have a option offense it was a run heavy offense like Wisconsin but they mixed in option 25% of the time. plus tom osborne players were not fuild on roids.

And what Nebraska team where u watching? They ran I-Form option.

[Allworld]

Quote: Originally Posted by wryly

95's Nebraska team (the best Nebraska team) with Frazier was undoubtedly a power option offense. I'm pretty sure that's how Osbourne himself described it. You might want to watch some videos of that team, since it seems like you haven't seen them play. Everyone in the Big 8 knew Nebraska did roids. Most notably, Barry Switzer accused them of it over and over again. Here's an article where Osbourne admits it: "Osbourne says Cornhuskers have used steroids."

i saw every single gamr they played 01 miami and 95 nebraska best teams i have ever seen

[PowerofRed25]

Some of you are horribly misinformed yet try really hard to pass it off as fact.

The 1996 Nebraska Cornhuskers ran 984 total offensive plays for 5484 total yards and 63 touchdowns. (For reference, the #1 offense in college football in 2011 was the Houston Cougars who ran 1102 total offensive plays for 8387 yards and 93 touchdowns in 14 games as opposed to the 13 Nebraska played in '96).

Of the 984 plays Nebraska ran in 1996, 733 were runs for 3782 of the 5484 yards and 49 of the 63 touchdowns (Just over 5 yards per run, 1 rushing touchdown every 15 carries). Of those 733 runs, only 163 were options. Option accounted for 16.6% of Nebraska's total offensive play calls in 1996 but accounted for just under 21% of its total yardage. Non-option runs accounted for 58% of Nebraska's total offensive play calls and accounted for 48.5% of its total yards. As a whole, rushing accounted for 75% of the play calls and 69% of the total yards.

Nebraska football under Tom Osborne may be known and recognized for option football, but option football accounted for only a small percentage of the offense (usually between 20% and 30% of the total plays). We were first and foremost a power run team. The option was to Nebraska what the pass was to other teams, it was our home run threat, Coach Osborne said as much:

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If things work right in the option, you’ve got a guy with speed on the corner and a couple blocking in front of him. We always felt our options plays should average more than seven yards a carry, and they usually did. That’s a pretty high average. You had a better chance for a 60- to 80-yard run than almost any play in your playbook. Some times people criticized us because we didn’t pass a lot, but what I often told people, where the traditional team would throw the ball, we’ll run an option. So if we threw 15 and ran 12 options, that would be the equivalent of some teams passing 27 times. It’s a high-risk play but sometimes it would get you those big gains.

In 1996, Nebraska averaged 7 yards per option as opposed to 4.67 yards per non-option run and 6.97 yards per passing attempt (attempt not completion). Option was our big play threat, we would go power, trap, pitch, iso and then all of a sudden option off you and we'd be down the field before you knew what happened. That is why we were known as an option offense but the simple fact is, option is only a quarter of the entire offense. In many ways, we were a 50-50 run pass team, 50% power run/50% pass and option which to us served the same purpose as a pass.