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The history of the Kent State Golden Flashes is full of missed opportunities, real-life tragedies, and lots of losing—never more than in 2024, when Kent State had one of the worst teams in college football history. Why is the program perennially so bad? To answer that question, Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard for a deep dive into the Flashes.

* A long history of great, memorable players on bad teams

* Separating the challenges that come with being a MAC school from the ones that are specific to this MAC school

* A string of tragedies that affected the football program, led by the fallout from the killings of four students by national guardsmen in 1970

* More than one missed chance to hire alum Nick Saban

* The program’s best case-scenario over the next 10 years

* Should Kent State stay the course, drop to FCS, or do something else?

Read Rodger’s recent newsletter on Kent State’s miserable 2024, and join the thousands on his mailing list to get more of his one-of-a-kind writing.

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