After last night's game with Bowling Green, Coach Haynes said, "This was a tough loss. We knew Bowling Green was a better football team than their record, especially with their (ability) to score points. We knew if it was a high-scoring game, it would be tough to win...Our hats off to them. They played a good game. We had chances to put more points on the board and also to stop them, but we just didn't do it."
Haynes didn't have to call for a midnight staff meeting to figure out what went wrong with his football team. Anyone who saw the game could tell that the Falcons were faster and more talented than the Flashes.
True freshmen Jarret Doege and Andrew Clair led the Falcons in passing and rushing respectively. Doege threw for two touchdowns and ran for another. Clair surpassed 100 yards rushing for the fourth straight game. Doege went 14 of 18 for 174 yards and Clair picked up 111 yards on eight carries.
Doege and Clair are three-star recruits from the 2017 recruiting class. Altogether, Bowling Green had 11 three-star recruits on this year's recruiting class and Kent had only three. The gap in talent level on both sides of the ball was created not only by recruiting but by attrition from injuries and not having enough depth to overcome this year's injury issues.
Contrary to what some fans believe, it's really not a matter of X's and O's, but a matter of not enough Jimmy's and Joe's. The reality is who ever coaches at Kent will always have this problem. What I'm afraid of is Nielsen will hire another Pete Cordelli to replace Haynes after this season and he will be just as clueless as Cordelli.
Following a 42-7 loss to Akron in Cordelli's last season, Cordelli called a midnight staff meeting during which he asked his assistants to dig deep and figure out what was wrong with their football team. Recalling the incident, Jon Hoke, the defensive coordinator at the time said, ``I'm sitting there thinking, are you kidding me? I mean, we had good kids, they tried hard, but they were bad players."
Unless the new coach can somehow sign a plethora of three-star players, I don't see how even a sound X's-and-O's coach can come to Kent and change the school's football history. Not that it's not possible for a less talented team to defeat a more talented team. After all, Kent defeated Miami this season but I don't see that happening again next year. Actually, I see the new coach going 0-12 and when that happens look for all the 'fire Haynes' fans to advocate a shutdown of the football program. Then perhaps Kent State can become a basketball-only school like VCU. Maybe then they will be happy.
https://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-foot...reen-falcons-recruiting-mike-jinks-highlights
Haynes didn't have to call for a midnight staff meeting to figure out what went wrong with his football team. Anyone who saw the game could tell that the Falcons were faster and more talented than the Flashes.
True freshmen Jarret Doege and Andrew Clair led the Falcons in passing and rushing respectively. Doege threw for two touchdowns and ran for another. Clair surpassed 100 yards rushing for the fourth straight game. Doege went 14 of 18 for 174 yards and Clair picked up 111 yards on eight carries.
Doege and Clair are three-star recruits from the 2017 recruiting class. Altogether, Bowling Green had 11 three-star recruits on this year's recruiting class and Kent had only three. The gap in talent level on both sides of the ball was created not only by recruiting but by attrition from injuries and not having enough depth to overcome this year's injury issues.
Contrary to what some fans believe, it's really not a matter of X's and O's, but a matter of not enough Jimmy's and Joe's. The reality is who ever coaches at Kent will always have this problem. What I'm afraid of is Nielsen will hire another Pete Cordelli to replace Haynes after this season and he will be just as clueless as Cordelli.
Following a 42-7 loss to Akron in Cordelli's last season, Cordelli called a midnight staff meeting during which he asked his assistants to dig deep and figure out what was wrong with their football team. Recalling the incident, Jon Hoke, the defensive coordinator at the time said, ``I'm sitting there thinking, are you kidding me? I mean, we had good kids, they tried hard, but they were bad players."
Unless the new coach can somehow sign a plethora of three-star players, I don't see how even a sound X's-and-O's coach can come to Kent and change the school's football history. Not that it's not possible for a less talented team to defeat a more talented team. After all, Kent defeated Miami this season but I don't see that happening again next year. Actually, I see the new coach going 0-12 and when that happens look for all the 'fire Haynes' fans to advocate a shutdown of the football program. Then perhaps Kent State can become a basketball-only school like VCU. Maybe then they will be happy.
https://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-foot...reen-falcons-recruiting-mike-jinks-highlights
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