Filed under: Paul Johnson: The Triple Option Patriarch By Winfield Featherston Dec 11, 2009, 2:36pm EST Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Paul Johnson: The Triple Option Patriarch Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Whenever he gets the chance, Army Coach Rich Ellerson watches the football teams from Navy and Georgia Tech on television. He does so partly because of his long-standing friendships with those teams' coaches, Ken Niumatalolo and Paul Johnson. But Ellerson is also curious: His team, like Niumatalolo's and Johnson's, employs the triple-option offense.... There is no doubt that if this is a family tree, the patriarch is Paul Johnson.