Here is a good article written by Michael Weinreb for Vice Sports, with some quotes I provided.
The roots of option football are at least seven decades deep, and run back to a coach at the University of Missouri named Don Faurot, who invented a system known as the “split T” largely because he didn’t have a back who could throw an adequate pass. Such is the overarching stigma of the option in 2015: It is viewed as an antiquated and over-the-hill offense utilized by programs whose insufficient talent leaves them no choice, by the service academies and Division III programs and small high-schools in rural areas who simply don’t have the players to install a more modern system with a strong-armed quarterback.
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