Category: Football
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Burns and staff catch up on recruiting this past weekend
The Kent State football coaching staff was able to take advantage of the bye week and catch up on some recruiting this weekend. Kenni Burns and his staff hit the road and connected with members of their current class of 2025 verbal commits and also looked at future talent. I was at Avon, covering the…
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Good shines with KSU staff in attendance
I had a chance to cover the Avon vs. Berea-Midpark high school game Friday night as part of my freelance work with the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. That means I had a chance to watch Kent State class of 2025 quarterback recruit Nolan Good in person. Good didn’t disappoint as he went 12-13 for 230 yards, two…
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GFR Reflection: Kent State loses “Culture” game to EMU
Kent State welcomed in the Eastern Michigan Eagles for Homecoming 2024 Saturday in what ended up being a rainy, wet and sloppy game in the second half. And just like the Kent State hopes to pull an upset over Chris Creighton’s Eagles Saturday, it, and the rain washed away as the afternoon turned into night,…
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Olds Flashes for KSU
One of the bright spots from the Kent State football non-conference has been the play of defensive end Kam Olds and the front seven for Kent State. Olds, a 6-4, 245 pound Richmond, Virginia native stayed in the MAC after transferring from Buffalo. Olds prepped at Fork Union Military Academy and made an immediate impact…
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Creighton and EMU a blueprint for Flashes
Chris Creighton and his Eastern Michigan Eagle football team come to Dix Stadium Saturday for Homecoming. Creighton has been at Eastern Michigan for eleven years and they’ve become consistently consistent in the league after a couple of years of getting his program started. Since starting his first two years 2-10 and 1-11, the Eagles have…
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Flashes lose Kargman and Sherrod for season as Homecoming awaits
The 2024 Kent State football season as well as the KentGRIT era suffered a tough blow Monday when Head Coach Kenni Burns confirmed what was feared in that quarterbacks Devin Kargman and JD Sherrod were lost for the season due to injuries they suffered Saturday at Penn State. Kargman underwent hip surgery after the game…
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GFR Reflection: Flashes limp into MAC play
Well, non-conference play is over for the Kent State football program. Congratulations to the Flashes on a job…done. After a hopeful week one performance at Pittsburgh, Kent State followed with a woeful loss to St. Francis (PA) of the FCS. Then, KSU was blasted at national championship contender Tennessee 71-0, in a game that was…
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GFR Reflection: Flashes pummeled at Tennessee
The Kent State football program and their supporters had a rough night as the Golden Flashes were dismantled Saturday night at Tennessee 71-0, after the ballgame was 65-0 at halftime. I can’t remember a Kent State team being so outmatched in a game before going back over 20 years. Tennessee is a legit national championship…
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Flashes “stay the course” and prepare for Tennessee
The Kent State football season moves on this week with a trip to SEC Country to take on the #7 nationally ranked Tennessee Volunteers at 7:45pm in a game to be televised by the SEC Network. The Flashes will look to bounce back from their disappointing loss to FCS St. Francis on Saturday 23-17. In…
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GFR Reflection: Flashes waste opportunity
Let’s tell it like it is. The Kent State football program was out played, out coached, out competed, out toughed and ultimately beaten on the scoreboard against FCS St. Francis (PA) Saturday in the home opener at Dix Stadium by a score of 23-17 in a game that didn’t even feel that close. It was…
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Kent State welcomes in St. Francis for home opener
Kent State welcomes in St. Francis Saturday for the 2024 home opener at Dix Stadium. Kick off is set for 2:30pm. The Flashes will look to show progress and bounce back from their 55-24 setback last week at Pittsburgh. Offensively, the Flashes will look to establish a running game that was held in check by…
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GFR FLASHback Friday Volume 2: KSU throttles Howard for first win in FlashFAST era
Today in our GFR FLASHback Friday we go back six years to September 8, 2018. Kent State got their first win in the FlashFAST era under Sean Lewis with a 54-14 win over Howard at Dix Stadium. Jo-El Shaw ran for 105 yards and three touchdowns while Kent State scored 50 points or more for…
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Kargman earns respect, looks to continue to lead
Kent State quarterback Devin Kargman earned a lot of respect with his teammates, coaches and the fanbase Saturday after a tough performance Saturday at Pittsburgh in which the junior signal caller took big hit after big hit in the pocket, and bounced back up every time. As we wrote yesterday, the team broke down film…
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Flashes watch together to help accountability
Kent State Head Football Coach Kenni Burns and his staff did something different Sunday with the Golden Flashes, following Saturday’s 55-24 loss at Pittsburgh. They watched the game film together as an entire team. Typically teams will break off either as a unit, or as a position group to watch their specific unit. Watching as…
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GFR Reflection: The case for complimentary football
If Kent State has any chance to be competitive in and ultimately win games in the Mid-American Conference this season, they must play true complimentary, team football. This version of the Flashes will not win games the way the ‘FlashFAST’ Sean Lewis era did, with shootout scores of the 48-42 variety. This is the KentGRIT…