First off, if you think BG had problems with Jinks? Man. Kent's previous coach had gone two seasons without winning an FBS game and then was fired because he took a $100,000 loan from a donor/vendor and mis-used his P-Card.
The firing was on April 11.
So in comes Mark Carney, a familiar name to Falcon fans. Carney was an All-American QB at Fordham when Clawson was the coach...he followed Clawson to Richmond and BG, when he was the WR coach. He didn't go to Wake, went sub-D1 for a couple years and then to Charlotte and Kent. He is an interim Coach.
They are better than you might think. I used MAC-only stats this week, because their overall stats are distorted by their ridiculous non-conference schedule, where they lost to Texas Tech, Florida State and Oklahoma by an aggregate score of 172-24.
In the MAC, it has been a little different. They smoked UMass, which you'd expect; but also, they did what you would expect. They were up on Buffalo with a minute left before losing. And they battled UT tough for a half.
I'm not claiming they're great or even good. But there are signs this isn't what we saw there the last two years and they are capable of beating us.
The matchup is tough. BG brings their "putrid" offense. The Flashes aren't great defensively, but they are good against the run and vulnerable to the pass. Unfortunately, that's a set up that will be tough for us to exploit.
BG is a 7.5 point road favorite, though that has been bet down a little.
Coach said he was going to challenge his coaches to figure out how to move the ball. If they succeed, we should be fine. Or, we could play a really tight, defensive game and get a narrow win that way. But this is not the normal Kent team.
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