Beck’s RPO offense and penalties

[thirtyfour-thirtyone]

Troy Taylor’s offense seemed to generate an “ineligible receiver downfield” call every few plays. This seemed to really hamstring the offense at times. The O-line was always down field run-blocking when they shouldn’t have been. I associated that problem with RPO offenses in general, and was a little nervous about us running an RPO scheme again.

I looked at New Mexico’s stats, and they had almost twice as many penalty yards as we did last year (chalk that up to Bronco, hopefully), but I looked through the Arizona game play-by-play on the Arizona athletics website, and didn’t see a single ineligible receiver penalty. I am optimistic that Beck will be able to do good things with the personnel we will have next year, and give the defense some much needed help.

[utefansince79]

That was a big problem here about 5-10 years ago here when Huntley was QB. Would appear ready to run, linemen would start downfield to set up blocks, but he would throw at the last moment resulting in the yellow hanky.

[jshame17]

It’s exactly why I don’t like RPO and refuse to run it in NCAA25.

Penalties always kill big plays, just like in real life and is often at the whim of the ref on what they consider “down field”.

[China Rider]

I think we all saw for ourselves that B12 officiating is the definition of “whim”.

[Hellhound152]

Yes, there will be penalties, the play requires the offensive line to behave in an unnatural way. Unless it is timed perfectly like Jared Goff at Cal the men downfield is a constant threat. 3 yards is pretty nebulous when you are supposed to be run blocking.

[UteNamedOg]

I think it’s best if everything happens in that first second. Alabama ran it extremely well (the four first round WRs, first round RB, and three starting NFL QBs on the roster may have helped) because Tua would either hand it off or immediately fire it to a WR. Offensive lineman might get downfield… but the ball is gone by their third step.

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