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To criticize the Rebel coaches after their first loss in 29 games is ridiculous. Best player had screws put in his hand 4 or 5 weeks ago, breaks same hand last week again, using a freshman DLinmen, one starting DE didn't even play last year and as a soph was a WR. With the exception of Roller our LB's look to be about 155-170 lbs. Bartleson, the second biggest offensive weapon has been about 60% for the last month. Did you know Bartleson has like 10 carries and maybe 3 receptions in the last 5 or 6 games combined !!! These ARE NOT excuses. The better team won the game. But I think this coaching staff has an outstanding job finding someone to fill in when someone went down, to figure out who would run the ball when your top 3 rb's are all less than 75 percent. Boyle calling card on defense has always been run stopping and run stopping with extreme prejudice !! Didn't have that this year. You think they forgot how to coach run defense ???? Had a couple of Olinemen who really weren't ready to be starters this year but they had no choice. You think anyone is going to feel sorry for the Rebels? Of course not but with the depth issues at many, many positions I think this is actually one of the better coaching jobs I've seen in the last few years.