If one watches College or High School Football you quickly observe that EVERYONE uses the one-back Offense, either as a RPO or basically as an Air Raid attack.
NO ONE uses The Houston Veer. Zero. As in the 1960’s it would catch opponents off guard. No one ever practices against it. Never.
Dana is headed for a losing season 3 out of 5 seasons here. Someone has to,literally, start over. A killer running game might be the ticket.
Navy and Army have been running triple option run offenses for a long time because of players they have available. But it is very hit or miss depending on the defenses. You can have some winning seasons but won’t win a conference championship today with it.
The Veer was a refinement of the single wing offense while the Wishbone was a refinement of the T offense.
It might work if we had a Billy Willingham to coach our OL and a Qb like Moon Mullins or Danny Davis.
I have an NCAA records book that I bought about 20 years ago. At that printing there were nine 99 yard TD passes; three of them were by Houston with the Veer offense. Two of them were from Terry Peel to Robert Ford, one was Bo Burris to Warren McVea.
This is how I remember it.
The veer created mismatches from a basic dive play. There we’re basically two options and left two players unblocked. One being by leaving the DT in front of a pulling guard unblocked and whoever was on the end of the line, DE, LB or even DB, whoever. If DT went with pulling guard, QB left the ball in FB’s gut otherwise continue down the line with a trailing HB. QB would keep or toss depending on the unblocked player. Passing after the first fake was used rarely but lethally. Elmo would feast in the secondary on those but I doubt he caught more ten passes in a game very often. He got YAC!
Anyway, the guys who were supposed to be blocked were usually blocked and that’s how we moved the chains but we could score quickly too. We had guys who could take it to the house on any given play. Our OLInes back then were very very good at run blocking. I digress. I’m old. Sue me. 
Bill Yeoman’s ‘Veer T’ offense is the basis for all option oriented offenses including the current ‘Run Pass Option’ or RPO. It requires excellent vision and decision making by the quarterback. The best we had to run it were Moon Mullins and Danny Davis. The service academies are as close to running the veer as any now. As another poster mentioned, once defenses catch on, it is easier to defend. But that is not to say it could not still be used in certain situations. My two cents.
The veer in those days was revolutionary. It’s not today. The key for KSU offense last week was run first (a lot). Then pass occasionally. They have the personnel to do that. When they did pass, the passing was effective. UH doesn’t have the personnel to do that.
Imho I think we have to pass first and often (then run occasionally). We have a capable QB as far as throwing arm and 3-4 good receivers. I don’t really have an answer. I just know we don’t have the players to be a power running team.
The good sized QB with the great arm and hordes of little teeny receivers that could catch a ball and run 9 flat hundreds all day (1/2 step and–goodby!) always made me smile–especially when they matched up with the Hulks on other teams.
The Veer is the granddaddy of them all.
Danny Davis was a flipping magician, riding it in to the dive back, and pulling it out. That was so beautiful. Something slowed down time for him.
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