Coach Darrell Hazell wasn't kidding when he said all jobs were open on this season's team.
The Golden Flashes players made that discovery when spring practice began on March 27. Hazell's words on signing day in February rang true on the first day of drills.
"Competition is good for everybody," offensive coordinator Brian Rock said in the Kent-Ravenna Record Courier. "We needed to create some of that."
Kent State finished 5-7 in Hazell's first year as head coach—the third straight season they've finished with that record. Hazell and his staff are trying to develop a new culture in a program that
hasn't finished above .500 since 2001 and has had two winning years since 1987.
"There is no entitlement around here," Rock said in the Record Courier. ...More