Is this true? I would think an option offense is more complex than the I formation. It's the simplest offense you can run just about.
We ran the I on my middle school football team because it is an easy offense for young people to grasp.
They ran the veer or read-option becuase it played more into their strengths. They had smaller, quicker players with a converted wide reciever at quarterback. The power I is basically lining up man to man and seeing who wins. Marshall didn't have the players to do that so they ran the veer. Same offense that West Virginia ran with so much success as well as Texas with Vince Young and is now being implemented at Michigan (hence Mallet leaving since he is a drop back passer rather than a veer QB)
Yes, a Power I formation would have been much easier but would have been impossible for them to have any success with.
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If you have a team with big linemen and straight forward big running backs the Power I is the better way to go, but with smaller lineman and no really powerful running backs the veer is more suitable.
shareAny offense can be simple. In any offense, you can run the ball straight up the middle.
It's a matter of what's being emphasized, and as mentioned, that's why they went with the veer.
Veer can also be a broad term that applies to virtually any option offense.
Keep in mind the I formation can be an ideal option offense. This was the University of Nebraska's primary formation during much of Tom Osborne's tenure, and Nebraska was basically considered an option-based offense starting in 1980 (even though they ran option plays for many years before this).
The Veer features considerable 'brush-blocking' where linemen block the 'next man down the line' rather than trying to take the defensive line on head-to-head.
With a small and inexperienced offensive line, if you go straight up against the defensive line, you are going to get plastered most of the time.
The veer option CAN BE much more complex than a straight power-I, but only if the coach empowers the QB to make all the option reads on his own during the course of the play.
Many teams ran, and run, the option, but on many plays the QB has only one or two options as opposed to the three or more you have on an 'idealized' option play.
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