Option Responsibility

Hey Coach-
I have played a team that has run this offense 2 times and ran the same scheme against them both times...the first time we gave up 9 points (TD was on a short field after a turnover by our offense), this season with significantly less talent than I had the first go round with them we gave up 15...one of the TD's was a short field, the other was an assignment breakdown by our linebacker...

Here was our alignment was pretty basic:

Nose in a 0
Ends head up the tackles
Mike Stacked behind the nose
"Bats" behind the Ends
Spurs or Dogs in a walk off 3x3 off slot backs
Ran Cover 3...

Here was our assignments if we called "Pinch":
Nose in a 0 tech- Bullrush the center (my nose guard is pretty good), find the ace back and tackle him
Ends head up the tackles- Slant into the B gaps and tackle the ace back
Mike- Stacked behind the nose- reads the ace back and crashes whatever side he goes to and tackles him
"Bats"- Cross key the slots-motion at you= crash the c gap- tackle QB No motion at you= cutback
Spurs or Dogs- Motion at you= Pitchback on option
Corners- secondary pitch back
Free safety- QB to pitch

If we called Base-
Nose- Same as Pinch
Ends- slant C gap- Tackle the QB
Mike- Same as Pinch
"Bats"- Cross key the slots- motion at you= crash b gap and tackle Ace back No motion at you= cutback
Spurs or Dogs-Same as Pinch
Corners- Same as Pinch
Free- Same as Pinch

We called pinch most of the night because we wanted to keep the ball out of the fullback's hands and if they are reading your end they will pull everytime...if you would rather the fullback it and keep the ball between the tackles, then I would go base...we kept our ends head up the tackles just so that they wouldn't know what way we were going...i did call base some to keep them off balance...

We had to sell to our ends that even though they are pinching down into the B gap they can't get "washed down" they have to hold that piece of real estate and tackle the fullback...

We also had to obviously sell to our kids that "assignment football and discipline" was going to win this game...Everybody has to do their job and not try and do somebody elses...your dogs or spurs will want to attack the QB...THEY CAN'T!!! Your Bats will want to tackle the Fullback if you run Pinch...THEY CAN'T!!

I had to sell to the kids that if they did their jobs that was enough...they didn't have to make the play...

I like the gameplan because it assigns at least two defenders to everybody involved in the option play and there are 3 defenders assigned to the fullback...

This is what worked for us- but i know there is more than one way to "skin a cat"...I'd like to hear others...

Good to see there are not many opinions on how to "stop" the option.

AS A LONG TIME COACH OF OPTION FOOTBALL, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT ARA PARSHEIGAN'S OKIE DOG PINCH WILL GIVE ANY OPTION RUN OUT OF 2-3 BACK FORMATION REAL FITS!!! I'M NOT TAKING SIDES, I COACHED THE TRIPLE FOR A LONG TIME (ISV/OSV) OUT OF BOTH THE BONE AND THE "I", JUST STATING FACTS.

Coach Easton-TIGER ONE