Hardesty: This is the year to watch Flashes football, national oracles say

Dix Stadium and much of Kent State campus are in the city’s fourth ward. Photo by Gary McLaughlin

Hardesty: This is the year to watch Flashes football, national oracles say

- Tom Hardesty

Kent State football hasn’t tasted any kind of sustained national respectability since Don James patrolled the Dix Stadium sidelines in the early 1970s.

The Golden Flashes flirted with it in 2012 when they captured the Mid-American Conference East Division title, the program’s first championship of any kind since James’ 1972 team of Jack Lambert and company won the MAC crown.

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