It's not about making it seem like anything...fact, in first half he was averaging over 8 per carry. So why the F did he only have 8 carriers on the game? Because Navy 'shut him down'...nah sorry, only 8 carries and 2 over 10. Law of averages says if he gets 16 carries he probably has 4 over 10 with another big gainer.
But it's not even about that, we are spider webbing...we ran the ball consistently and effectively enough in the first half to open up the pass and we scored on every possession except when we missed a FG. The only reason the second half was different wasn't because Navy shut down our run, it's because we stopped running. Rees fell for the shiney object and came out trying to be a drop back passing team in the second half. We abandoned the run, as Rees' Mentor was so renowned for doing, which along with the defense forgetting how to play pass defense is why the game became close in the second half...not because Navy's mighty defense stymied our run game as you're trying to sell it.
Rees showed his true incompetence as an OC and played right into the hands of what Navy wanted us to do.