re: Short side option & play calling in general

That's what I was saying, but when you game plan, you know that not every play will score. You game plan with the thought of a certain play taking advantage of defensive schemes, whether that be numbers, 1 on 1 matchups, or a boundary/field advantage. That's why LSU and many other teams run speed/ stretch option into the short side of the field, to make the defense commit bodies and scheme somewhere and the use the same formations after that defensive commitment to attack the defense else where. Of course you design each play to score (when executed properly with the defense doing exactly what you KNOW they will do) it just doesn't work out that way because of the human eliment. You can get a lot of tendencies off of film, but the other staff is game planning you just like you are game planning them. Anyone that has played ball understands this.