KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Numerous defensive coaches look upon the triple option offense with disdain. To stop it, you must play assignment football. You must be disciplined. You must fend off cut blocks. You must have eye discipline.
When John Chavis was Tennessee’s defensive coordinator, he despised going against the triple option. But Brady Hoke, UT’s first-year defensive line coach, has a different outlook.
“I embrace it,” Hoke said in a recent interview. “I love it.”
When Hoke was coach at Ball State, he faced Navy’s triple option twice. At San Diego State, he went against Air Force’s “flex bone” each year and battled Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl.