[charlie22]

They are losing most of their starters, but there are many players coming back who saw significant playing time last year (Coach Mueller loves to rotate in a lot of guys).

In addition, the best player from last year's team (RB Josh Conner) will be returning.

Look for the 'Birds to enter the 2008 postseason with a 9-1 record (the loss coming to Cincinnati Colerain) and poised to repeat.

They have a decent number of starters returning except for the o line. On Defense, Collinsworth, Roller, Frank, Rosenhagen and Laber return. On O, Guidugli will end up starting and he started a couple of games last year and got a decent amount of PT. Conner of course returns (and by the way, Conner was NOT the best player on last year's team in my opinion). Dempsey returns as starter on the o line.

You are definitely right about Mueller rotating a bunch of people in getting them experience even when they don't start. One of the reasons why Highlands doesn't have the peak and valley syndrome.