Full Hog Backfield

[Leroy Lizard]

Anyone remember it? Switzer had planned to stack the backfield with offensive linemen in the closing minutes of blowouts. Did he ever run it?

If we were to implement it, who would we select?

Would be a great recruiting tool. "Come to OU and you will even get to carry the ball."

[yermom]

that would be cool to use early in the year for blowouts and later on the goal line :D

of course, you'd need to have extra OL for that to work...

[Leroy Lizard]

How about safeties and WRs on the OL!!! (Would need to swap numbers)

I bet the D would burn a timeout on that one.

[oudivesherpa]

Da Bears did something similar with the Refig back in the early 90's.

[kbsooner21]

I'm more of a ninja type guy myself :D

[SoonerObsession]

I use to love it when Refrigerator Perry use to come in and run on goal line situations. Why don't more teams do this?

[KantoSooner]

Well, you could have just had Gresham go in motion, stop in the backfield and take a handoff up the middle in short yardage sitchs.

[BoulderSooner79]

I use to love it when Refrigerator Perry use to come in and run on goal line situations. Why don't more teams do this?

Lots of teams do put an OL guy in as a fullback for blocking. But big guys tend to fumble when they get the ball.

[Frozen Sooner]

Lots of teams do put an OL guy in as a fullback for blocking. But big guys tend to fumble when they get the ball.

Alabama puts Terrence Cody in the backfield in goal line situations. Saban promised him a carry if he can beat Saban in a foot race.

Hasn't happened yet. But it's pretty amusing to see Cody taking on an LB.

[Jacie]

Lots of teams do put an OL guy in as a fullback for blocking. But big guys tend to fumble when they get the ball.

Thinking of linemen and the football, before the Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas there was a clip of memorable moments. One they didn't show was Leon Lett slipping on the ice and fumbling a blocked field goal attempt that would have been the Dolphins last shot at victory. If you are too young, look it up. It is a textbook definition of why coaches don't let linemen anywhere near the ball.

[OUinFLA]

do we have any linemen left?

[setem]

How does that work I thought you had to have certain number to carry the ball! Anyone remember Mike Alstott I used to love watching him play!

[soonerborn30]

I think we should let Gerald McCoy play fullback in goalline situations.

[yermom]

Thinking of linemen and the football, before the Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas there was a clip of memorable moments. One they didn't show was Leon Lett slipping on the ice and fumbling a blocked field goal attempt that would have been the Dolphins last shot at victory. If you are too young, look it up. It is a textbook definition of why coaches don't let linemen anywhere near the ball.

:(

[yermom]

How does that work I thought you had to have certain number to carry the ball! Anyone remember Mike Alstott I used to love watching him play!

in the NFL you can just talk to the ref and tell them you are playing out of position

in college, i think you have to change jerseys

[Leroy Lizard]

Does anyone know the rule, because I thought anyone could carry the ball in college football.

[OUmillenium]

Stockar McDougle 1999

[Tulsa_Fireman]

All you have to do is report as eligible prior to the play.

[Leroy Lizard]

Are you sure you even need to do that? I can find rules about ineligible receivers, but nothing on ineligible rushers. Never heard of such a thing.

[Leroy Lizard]

BTW, the full hog is supposed to employ OL, not tight ends.

[SoonerAtKU]

You don't have to change numbers unless there's already someone on the offensive side of the ball that has your number. You don't have to report as eligible to run the ball, only to catch one.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

An eligible receiver is just that. ANYONE eligible to catch the football, not just to actually catch the football. In other words, two ends and four backs as opposed to the five interior lineman who are ineligible receivers and wear a number range to assist in identification on the field.

It's no different than if you overload a side. The offense has to declare the tackle eligible if he's wearing a number within the 50-79 range.

[Leroy Lizard]

I assume that "catch" refers to forward passes only.

[SoonerAtKU]

Yup, anything else is a lateral or a hand-off and those don't count as forward passes.