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In looking at your diagrams, aren't you showing flood patterns rather than triangles?

The two aren't mutually exclusive though. Almost all flood patterns can be broken down into triangles.

The patterns you're showing don't have a vertical concept to them

I disagree. All the patterns have a vertical concept, just not necessarily a "down the field" concept to them. I've just ingested two rails from TOTS, but i'll try to clarify the difference. Let's look at this play here, my personal favorite example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n3eDd8mVT2o#t=533s

Here's a diagram of the play.

This play only works BECAUSE there is a vertical concept. The two inside receivers, layer one, take up the attention of the LBers and force them to stay shallow in coverage. This increases the size of the hole in between the safety and LBers. Layer two is the key, as the third receiver runs into the vacant space. The defense isn't able to cover him because he gets more vertical than the other two WR's, he just doesn't get vertical enough to run into the deeper coverage.

Isn't the premise of triangles to be effective against man and zone? so the patterns would look like a snag, a flat and a corner route, or a scat, flat, and go route, etc.?

I'm not sure I understand, all of these routes would work against man coverage. Maybe not PRESS man coverage, if the defense had better athletes. If a team lined up with straight man-on-man, no safety, bump-and-run coverage Loeffler wouldn't turn to triangles to defeat that though. He'd be looking to isolate the mismatches and hit them up with double moves.

Loeffler relies on the triangle concept when the defense is stacking the box against the run and playing it safe against the deep ball with deep coverage. Does it matter if a CB is in a deep Cover-3 look or just giving a large cushion with man responsibility? No. Either way, the Curl will be open and he'll take that throw.

My guess is that Hand ends up at Michigan.

Great article, but i have some questions:

In looking at your diagrams, aren't you showing flood patterns rather than triangles? The patterns you're showing don't have a vertical concept to them.

Isn't the premise of triangles to be effective against man and zone? so the patterns would look like a snag, a flat and a corner route, or a scat, flat, and go route, etc.?

Even if he doesn't qualify directly out of H.S. he can prep and still wind up on our roster.

Win the ACC.

This is why #allmarooneverything needs to come back. ASAP.

I'll take losing to Bama and winning the ACC. After last year, that'd be one heck of a first year for our offensive coaches. I'll take it any day of the week.

I'd venture to say you're correct.

Now that is a conundrum no person should be faced with.

That is a great point. I guess I would rather see an effort to create a new developmental league to accommodate athletes who want to bypass college and get paid than see collegiate athletics defiled. But maybe I'm just overly sentimental and old-fashioned.

This has to be one of my favorite VT games of all time. It was my freshman year, and we had that stupid athletic card system, and I couldn't get a ticket. I was pretty much alone on my hall during the game. I lived in Lee with a view of Lane Stadium, so I popped open my window (for proper ambience) and watched it on TV.

Besides the "give it to me, Roscoe" moment, this had to be my other favorite play of the game:

ESPN was on about a 7- or 10-second delay, so I pretty much knew what happened before the ball was even snapped.

"Probably the final really big game in the history of the Big East Conference"

Truest prediction regarding conference realignment I've ever heard.