Welcome to 25 Years of Option Central !
For a number of reasons, we decided not to wait another "Ten Years" to celebrate another milestone.
Arguably, in recent years, much of the buzz around the "option" has become the RPO, or Run/Pass Option. A modern implementation and expansion of the decades old "Veer Pass" and "Tight End Dump Pass", today's RPOs leverage the Shotgun formation and Zone/Read action to create difficult and varied "conflicts" for a Defense.
When we announced that we were adding an entire video collection from one of the first clinics devoted to the RPO to our Members Video Library, we opened with this quote from Bill Belichick :
"When a guy gets a key, and two different plays look like the same play, if he’s right on one, he’s wrong on the other. A lot of those plays are run by the quarterback, so both plays are in play and the quarterback makes a decision on what to do as he reads the defense. You can’t be right defensively, is the philosophy there.”
Bill Belichick
As we began publishing RPO clinic videos in 2019, our Chalk Talk series, produced in collaboration with Coach Tony DeMeo had also turned to the Passing game that complements the Option. Totalling 15 Chalk Talks, a number of plays from that Triple Gun Passing Chalk Talk series were included in CoachTube courses that followed.
Our focus in 2021 and 2022 turned to our CoachTube courses, many of which focused on Attacking Defenses with Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense. The courses, which combined both presentation and Chalk Talk video were offered free of charge to active Members at the time of publication as a complementary Option Central Member benefit.
Later in 2023, we added a Play of the Day Index page that included a description and link to Coach DeMeo's daily blog posts, many of which included an introduction by Coach DeMeo. Coach DeMeo's Play of the Day posts had recently moved to an Option Central affiliate site, adding new features such as a High School Play of the Day that highlighted a team running plays from his Triple Gun Offense.
For much of 2024, we collaborated with Coach DeMeo extensively as he finished his newest book, Tony DeMeo's Triple Gun Offense: An Evolution of Option Football. The book was initially available in a Digital Version which was released in the Spring of 2024, and a Paperback version that was released a few months later. We worked with Coach DeMeo to produce this Video Preview of the paperback edition.
As we look ahead, our focus continues to be on offering one of the great values in Option Football education, although what that means 25 years after Mike Schuster created Option Central continues to evolve. Stay tuned.
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