Question for Bobby Bowden Historians

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:37 pm

Went to see We Are Marshall today. Fair flick.

The movie has a scene where Bobby Bowden shares his knowledge of the veer offense he was running at WVU at the time.

Bobby Bowden, offensive genius, ran the VEER??? The veer is an option offense used by high schools. Doug Barfield was run off from Auburn due to running the veer, even though he had THREE future pro running backs at the time. Better still, can you imagine having Terry Bowden as a running back in the veer? I would love to see some old game(or practice) footage of his midget ass getting slammed by linebackers every play.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:24 am

a lot of the old SWC schools ran the Veer. it's been a college O. in jr high school and high school in the 80's and early 90's my high school ran the so-called "Houston Veer"...and this was at Oklahoma's highest class level: at Norman High. and NHS won the state championship a couple years after i graduated.

Bill Yeoman, former coach at Houston, is credited with the Veer we ran. and he had some good teams in the 70's...it's not that outlandish. the Veer and the base triple option/wishbone share a lot of similarites...and OU, NU, CU, Bama all won NC's with the option. more than 7 total i'd guess.

maybe some UT posters can help out....'cause the Veer was nothing to sniff at.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:34 am

I heard 1995 was a pretty good year in CF.

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:20 pm

Dick Vermiel used the Veer - T offense at UCLA....with pretty good results....