I was wondering who in the state, especially up in the Northern part, who still runs out of traditional running offenses?
Who still runs the ball in traditional offenses (Wing T, Power-I, Wishbone)?
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While not their full time offense Morris still runs the "T" formation somewhat regularly. They used it for most of the playoff game against Morgan Park.
The 2017 4A title game between Rochester and Morris is available on YouTube. The Morris OL averaged 281 pounds. They also had a 260-pound TE and 250-pound FB. They ran the ball almost 50 times in the game, mostly between the Tackles, and wore down a pretty good Rocket defense.
I remember that game... The Morris kicker, while celebrating on the sideline, injured his knee pretty bad.
Moline, Byron, Le-Win, Stockton, Stillman Valley, Dakota, Seneca, Forreston, Rochelle, Geneseo...im sure there are quite a few more im missing. Just thinking off the top of my head.
I thought I read Geneseo went to a spread O in recent years? (I could be wrong).
I believe both Prairie Ridge and Cary Grove still run power run offenses in the larger schools.
As of last season, at least, Andrew ran the triple-option from "flexbone" sets.
They started running the Cary Grove offense last season.
Once in a great while, often after a head coaching change, you might see a couple or three seasons of a "double wing" offensive attack. You know the one - a TE or two, unbalanced line no splits, Q under C with a FB snug to him, late & hard wing motion for toss, frequent misdirection off the latter, mad OL pulling and play-action pass.
Wilmington runs almost exclusively out of the tight double wing, with super tight splits. They used to run it wide, and also mix in power I and I-Wing, but they rarely, if ever, do that anymore.
All.... Peoria Notre Dame. But they disguise it with moving offensive parts often to confuse the defense. Pretty cool... Ratsy
If I were still coaching I would run the Power-I especially with the look and see defenses use against RPO teams.
QND still uses quite a bit of power-I and what they call "Queens" which is essentially just power-I with a 3rd back offset the tailback or fullback. When Bill Connell retired a lot of the old traditional power running sets got ditched but current HC Jack Cornell still uses them often enough. Otherwise they run spread majority of the time now. We passed something silly like 16 total times in my 3 year varsity career. Not even hyperbole. It was incredibly rare. And I know 6 of those came against Rochester in '04 2nd round. We all joked hell must be freezing over after that one... Nowadays we toss the ball out wide a lot and let the athletes use their legs in space. Has it's advantages since we aren't stacked 260+ on the line like we used to be. But I do miss the old power offense we ran sometimes.
In school we ran Pro Set, double TE. We ran the ball mostly but the ball was in the air as well. Coaching wise it was the Power-I and the Wing-T with the small schools and RPO with large school. I know the Wishbone but getting hard nosed players today is extremely tough to do. Cary Grove must have a Old School Lineman farm somewhere because they get studs lol. QND should run the ball more especially in the playoffs. Chew up the clock once y'all get a lead. Last years loss to Maroa may not have happen if ya ran more. Just my opinion.
Love watching Richmond-Burton run their offense.
Joliet Catholic still uses double wing/wing t concepts and I would still largely characterize their offense as "double wing."
But it does look a bit different over the last 5-10 years. It is less ideologically pure than it was for decades before and much more adaptive now. Until about 2015 or so, every single play was under center and with three backs in the backfield, 2 wingbacks and a fullback with them either aligned symetrically in the double wing or in a wing-t with one wingback and the other two backs next to each other in the backfield. Over the last decade, we still see those alignments often. But there are years where the base is more of an I look with a wing. So there is a fullback and then the two wingbacks switch off dotting the I or being the wing on one side. There are also shotgun and 3-4 WR looks when the situation is appropriate. But the clear desire is still to be in an I look with a wing or even a true double wing at times.
RB runs the Wing-T. Coach Noll has his own version of it as does every program, but it's wing-t principals that've evolved over the years. Thank goodness the sandbagging privates have finally moved out of the smaller classes.. Dang Covid...That 2022 JCA team has to be one of the most talented 4A teams EVER. Since Noll arrived in 2018, RB has literally had private schools end their season EVERY year besides 2019 when the won it all in 4A. From most recent and what class they are in today, St Laurence (7A), Viator (5A), Provi (6A), and JCA (6A), and 2018 it was IC Catholic (3A/4A).
