Gets lost in all this talk about 43-man transfer classes and 50 new faces at Oklahoma State and who bought the best roster this offseason? The option offense. I sat through that 1980 season watching Herschel run behind those pulling guards and I tell you what, there was nothing prettier in football than a perfectly executed triple option. Coach Dooley understood that you did not need five-star quarterbacks throwing for 400 yards every Saturday. You needed a fullback who could take a hit and a quarterback who could read one defender and make a decision in half a second. That is football. That is what made the old SEC special. Watching Auburn run the wishbone in the 80s, watching us run that power option with Garrison Hearst in the early 90s, there was an art to it that these spread offenses just cannot replicate. Now everything is about space and tempo and throwing the ball 50 times a game and I am supposed to believe that is better football. It is not. It is basketball on grass. Give me a cold November night in Athens with a fullback leading through the hole and a quarterback keeping it on the option and the whole stadium knows what is coming and nobody can stop it anyway. That is real football. That is what built this program. These kids today with their RPOs and their mesh points and their RPO tags do not know what they missed. I miss the days when you could watch a game and count the passes on one hand and still feel like you saw something beautiful. The option offense is a lost art and that is a shame.