Posted on 11/09/2023 9:54:27 AM PST by wgmalabama
This is an entire series about the wishbone offense, creation, adoption and I assume it’s demise as I am still watching the series. Each is a boy 20 minutes long.
I never played sports growing up. Both my sons have state championships in a sport at different ages. Mainly because I believed athletic competition was as important as other things. I might say that was wrong now but was right at the time.
Anyway, this was a great but low volume series on the college wishbone offense and I found it informative and entertaining. I have no OCI with this video.
I miss the Wishbone.
Back in the day when college football was different than the NFL.
Now CFB is just an NFL Farm League.
I always wondered what happened. It worked so well, and then..... it didn’t.
I think there’s a lot of history in both football and baseball that smart coaches and managers will bring back because of forgotten effectiveness.
The wishbone - 1940s T formation for the 1970s.
Difference from the T-Formation is the Fullback moved up closer to the quarterback.
I think defenses learned to string it out to stop it push the back towards the sideline
Defensive players got quicker and more athletic.
There wasn’t as much emphasis on speed back then with defensive line players. Now they can pretty much come close to running backs in running the 40-yard dash.
The Miami Hurricanes pretty much ended the Wishbone, they owned Oklahoma in the 80s, and that signalled the end of the Wishbone.
Pretty much a re-invented single wing.
The Wishbone is an “equalizing” offense for smaller quicker teams.
Part of the Wishbone are wide gaps in the offensive line that create natural holes where a smaller lineman doesn’t have to overpower anyone as much as occupy them for a moment.
My late father and his friends(With NO children on the team), took a team in youth football for several years and thru several weight classes and taught them the Wishbone offense. By the time they topped off at 125lbs and ran the offense for 4 years they were unstoppable, went undefeated, and traveled to play teams designated as “unlimited” in weight but confined to an age. They literally ran these larger teams right off the field.
Of late it was used by the military academies(Navy, Army, Air Force) as an equalizer.
It’s still widely used in High School.
I remember one did for awhile .
Also your quarterback gets pretty beat up playing the wishbone.
They cover that and I didn’t know about the T.
I’m on part 6 now. I didn’t know if others might be interested.
That's right. I'd say big, mobile linebackers in particular effectively ended those old-fashioned run-option offenses.
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