Category: Football
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kent State’s “R” better, but work to be done
Kent State fell 55-24 Saturday afternoon from Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh to the ACC’s Pitt Panthers. There were bright moments, flashes of building blocks and glimmers of hope. There were also things that reminded Kent State football fans of decades of losing and difficult moments. And a lot of moments where it was a Group…
Flashes prepare for Pitt pace
Kent State opens the 2024 season on Saturday at Pittsburgh with kickoff set for 12:00pm in a game that will be televised nationally on ESPNU. They’ll be facing a Pittsburgh offense led by a new offensive coordinator and a new scheme completely. Kade Bell, at just 34 years old is the new Panthers OC after…
Kent State heads to fertile recruiting territory Saturday
Kent State’s non-conference schedule has a distinct Pennsylvania flare in 2024. With games at Pittsburgh and Penn State, and a home game with St. Francis, the Flashes get three opportunities against the Keystone State. For Kent State, it’s a chance to make an impression in recruiting. To sell their brand of KentGRIT football in a…
Williams to get start Saturday at Center
Kent State will start true freshmen Elijah Williams at Center in the season opener against the ACC’’s Pittsburgh Panthers Kent State Head Coach Kenni Burns announced Monday at his press conference. Williams brings youth to an O-line that will also feature veterans on it this year after taking some bumps and bruises last year. Burns…
Kargman and Ulatowski both set to play Saturday
As reported a couple weeks ago by some national outlets, Kent State is going with Junior Devin Kargman at quarterback in Saturday’s opener at Pittsburgh and moving forward. The 6-3, 217 pound Camden, New Jersey native impressed Head Coach Kenni Burns this offseason after recovering from a minor injury that limited him in the spring.…
Garcia lost for season
The Kent State football program has unfortunately suffered a major injury before the regular season even began Head Coach Kenni Burns announced Monday at his weekly press conference as the Flashes prepare to open the 2024 season Saturday at Pittsburgh. Running back Gavin Garcia, who was expected to be apart of a two headed monster…
‘Rockstar’ Glass back to anchor kicking game for Flashes
Coming off a 1-11 season and 0-8 in the Mid-American Conference, it wasn’t surprising to say that Kent State had a lot of question marks heading into the off-season. Getting everyone in alignment, solidifying a coaching staff, navigating the transfer portal, as well as sorting out personnel issues were among the top priorities. One question…
Good relieved, ready and healthy for senior year with Avon
The first Friday night of the OHSAA football season is one week from Friday. Class of 2025 Kent State quarterback commit Nolan Good is gearing up for his senior season with his Avon High School football team. After missing the end of the OHSAA playoffs last year with a broken collarbone injury, Good is back…