Hip, hip for trey
September 6, 2013 by Mike CasazzaHard to say Dana Holgorsen’s offense was missing anything last season with all the success the team had scoring the football with three NFL draft picks. But the truth, even one he’ll confess, is West Virginia was not itself without its three running back set last season.
You’ll remember the set, known also as the diamond or the trey because that’s so much more clever than three-back set, from Holgorsen’s first season with the Mountaineers. He invented it with offensive line coach Joe Wickline the year before at Oklahoma State and he used it with some regularity in 2011 at WVU when he had three running backs. Which was not a exactly regular, but still often enough to be a little dangerous with it.
Nor was it regular, or even close to it, last season when WVU rarely had three healthy at once and more often than not only handed it to two backs in one game.
“It adds a lot,” Holgorsen said. “I wish we could go back in time.”
Well, he kind of has because he has three running backs again. He actually has four and he put the diamond on film against William & Mary for nine snaps. It’s not about giving Oklahoma an inconvenience as much as it’s about giving WVU an edge, though.
If you act like you forgot about trey, let’s review.
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