The new Kent State blogs

With the launch of a revamped www.kentstatesports.com today, we are also introducing an updated blog experience for fans.

Hopefully you all enjoy it. We want to be more interactive, so please ask questions and comment. I missed some of that contact with Kent State fans last season with the limited blogging ability we had on the old website. Now that we've incorporated the Blogger format, we can do a whole lot more. 

This blog, "the Press Box," will include both a traditional format, similar to the blog I had when I was a reporter at the Record-Courier. I'll also be posting video blogs. I've spent quite a bit of time learning how to use our new HD cameras and to edit footage using Final Cut ... so darn it, I'm going to put those new skills to use.

The good news is I have more access to the Golden Flashes' teams as a Kent State employee than I did when I was a reporter. That means I'll be able to provide an inside look into what goes on behind the scenes in this blog. Unfortunately, it also means there are some things I have to avoid. I'd love to be able to talk about recruiting, but I can't do that here. There will occasionally be some questions I can't answer. But I'll do my best to answer everything I can and be as candid as possible. 

Preseason football camp is right around the corner. I'll be at practice just about every day and reporting back here much the way I used to in my reporting days. You can ask questions and comment below every blog post. I'll try to respond to every one. And you can still follow me on twitter @CarducciKSU.

I'm anxious to see if Colin Reardon can continue to push David Fisher for the starting quarterback job. Reardon is unusually poised for a redshirt freshman. I want to see what the offensive line looks like without Brian Winters and Josh Kline. I want to see how the Flashes have filled the holes at linebacker. There is help on the way from the junior-college ranks, and they'll need to fit in right away.

More on the blogs ... Linder's Look by the voice of the Golden Flashes, Ty Linder, is already live with a link available at the new www.kentstatesports.com.  In the coming weeks, we'll have blogs for every team featuring coaches and players, and a blog by Kent State's athletic administration featuring athletic director Joel Nielsen.

We'll also be introducing an email address where fans can directly ask questions of Kent State's coaches, players and student athletes. We'll pick the best of those questions and have them answered each week in a regular video feature.