have interchanged the terms so frequently that it has gotten to the point where the definition of each term can be fuzzy. I can tell you this much; Ralph Friedgen was the OC at the time. He ran an offense that combined the option with very complex timing routes. I don't think he ever gave a name to his offensive scheme, but most experts would say that it falls in the family of the flexbone option.

The reason I answered the way I did is because when people (including myself) say "triple option," they could mean flexbone, veer option (a member of the flexbone family), or Paul Johnson's version of the spread option (which is really a version of the flexbone and not the true spread option which is used by Urban Meyer). I don't think HCs are using any other versions of the flexbone. If they are using another version, then I am not aware of it. So there is the possibility that I have forgotten a few other versions of the flexbone that people also call the "triple option."

Clear as mud?