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Lincoln Railsplitters 

COACH: Seth Bass (first season at Lincoln) 

2014 RECORD: 0-9 (0-9 in CS8)

TOP RETURNEES: Line Seth Gleason (17 tackles), DE Brayden Tanner (32 tackles), QB Garrett Aielts (613 passing yards), FS Alex Linares (90 rushing yards)
 

BIGGEST LOSSES: Will Cook, Ethan Kunkel, Chris Duong, Griffin Pollick, Brent Metelko

WHAT THE RAILERS DO WELL: Run the ball. The Railers have a solid stable of running backs in newcomers Kyle Crabtree and Titus Cannon as well as veteran Nathan Podunajec. Senior quarterback Garrett Aielts is back, and his top targets figure to be Koltyn Grant and Kegin Houghton. The line will be anchored by Seth Gleason. The defense figures to be more aggressive led by free safety Alex Linares  and a strong linebacking corps. The defensive line has been helped by a change of scheme. 

LINCOLN QUESTION MARKS:  “Our biggest question marks are the mentality and learning how to win, how quickly can these guys adjust to what we have thrown at them,” new coach Seth Bass said. The coach says schematically the players have adjusted very well, and there’s not a huge difference between what they ran before and the Bass system. 

WORTH NOTING: Seth Bass, 32, is the new Lincoln coach. He previously served as a student assistant at Tennessee Tech University and as an assistant at Culver-Stockton College and Cumberland University, and last year, he served as the defensive backs and running backs coach at Hermann High School in Missouri. . . . Since the late Gene McDonald ended his 20-year coaching run at Lincoln in 1978, the Railers have had 13 different head coaches. Lincoln has won 73 games in those 37 years and qualified for the postseason one time, in 1984 when it finished 9-2. . . . Lincoln enters the season with a 21-game CS8 losing streak dating back to a 2012 victory over Springfield High. . . . Early practice sessions attracted 65-70 players, more than twice as many as the Railers ended last year with.    

COACH SETH BASS SAYS: “They’re still feeling their way through having expectations placed  on them. We want them to really focus on doing their job and look at the small improvements rather than the overall big picture but to keep the big picture in mind. I knew when I took over, (the losing culture) was the biggest battle and longer battle to face. At the end it comes down to the kids and the fans and everybody in town believing we can win, how quickly they believe they can not only win but compete. That thing takes some time. We’re not focusing on wins and losses. We want them to go play by play, game by game to understand overall big picture.”

 

Date Time H/A Opponent Opp.
Record
Opp.
Enroll.
Aug 28 7:00 A Springfield (Southeast) 0-0 1333.00
Sep 4 7:00 H Chatham (Glenwood) 0-0 1385.00
Sep 12 7:00 A Springfield (H.S.) 0-0 1347.00
Sep 18 7:00 H Decatur (Eisenhower) 0-0 1041.00
Sep 25 7:00 A Springfield (Sacred Heart-Griffin) 0-0 1196.25
Oct 2 7:00 H Rochester 0-0 731.00
Oct 9 7:00 A Decatur (MacArthur) 0-0 1073.00
Oct 16 7:00 H Jacksonville (H.S.) 0-0 953.00
Oct 22 7:00 A Springfield (Lanphier) 0-0 1273.00

 

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