Gun Option and what else??

Coach,

People run all sorts of other stuff out of the gun. Many of the I type plays like the leads, counters, traps, draws can be run out of the gun. You could conceivably line up with two rb's and run those plays. You could also line up with one back and run some of those plays with your QB acting as your tailback/Iback. Other teams are running Wing-T type plays such as the Jet Sweep, Buck Sweep. Still other teams are running zone plays as part of the QB read option. There is so much you can do. We also have a mobile QB and are going to be using more Gun next year to take advantage of his skills. I guess what I'm saying is doodle up some of your other I stuff in the gun and see if you can make it work. Let your imagination go a little bit and build the system to emphasize what your kids can do well. I think the gun offers a lot of opportunity to tailor it for your kids. Best of luck.

We used the gun spread the last 2 years as a major part of our offense. Our QB signed with Toledo. We did not have one OL over 225 lbs. Our WR were smaller and not the fastest, but had great hands. Two years ago, most of the offense was spread them out and throw it. We did have a burner then. This past year, we utilized more of our QBs runnning abilities. We did not use any zone plays because of our size. What we did do was use a lot of our traps, powers, and counters. We ran the gun very similar to our I backfield. We had the following plays.

HB trap
QB iso
option
sweep
QB power (looked like the zone read that Vince Young ran at Texas-but our QB wasn't reading anything)

We were probably around a 75-25 pass to run ratio when in the gun. I hope this helps.

The past two years we went exclusively to the shotgun offense, but kept our option philosophy.
Base play were:
Jet sweep

Passes off

The past two years we went exclusively to the shotgun offense, but kept our option philosophy.
Base play were:
Jet sweep

Passes off

Load
Lead
Speed
Triple
Counter Triple
Trap Option
Shovel

Trap
Jet Sweep
Buck Sweep
Rocket Sweep
Rocket
Down
Belly Slide

Coaches
I am very impressed with the amount of plays that most of you have in your offense. I would like to know how you get it all in? We take a play like the rocket and it has taken us 2 years to get it in and we are still working on perfecting it. Everytime I read a post I see so many plays that all of you coaches run. Please let me know how you are able to perfect it all? To run gun option, option stuff and then the entire rocket and jet stuff plus dropback game WOW!! We HAVE TO PERFECT all of our offense or we will NOT even compete. If our kids make an execution mistake (something small as not snapping the ball at the right time for rocket) the play is shot in most cases. We are overmatched in 6 out of the 9 games we play. Plus, what I noticed is the 3 games where we are better it only required me to run 2 offensive plays over and over and we won by 3 TD's or more. Please post a breakdown of your practice and the amount of time you spend on each area. We only have 2 hours and 15 minutes a practice and 10 minutes is stretching. A 20 minute period on Specials. This takes away a half hour. Then 5- three minute water breaks, this is another 15minutes. Because our kids go both ways, we alternate offense and defense days. This gives us 1 hour and 30 minutes for practice.
Thanks for your help
Karjaw

Almost everything we run, we run from the I and Gun.

Inside Zone (read bsde)
Trap
Iso
Counter (read bsde)
Zone Option
Lead Draw

We do run inside veer from under center and not the gun.