Mark Carney received a significant raise when Kent State University removed the interim tag and hired him as KSU's football ...

Kent State football removed Mark Carney's interim tag on Oct. 30, making him the Golden Flashes' next head coach.

Kent State had planned a national football coaching search, but Mark Carney showed the university enough in his first eight ...

Kent State named Mark Carney the full-time football coach after he led the Golden Flashes to a 3-5 record so far this season ...

KENT, Ohio — Mark Carney was named Kent State's football coach Thursday, removing the interim tag he has had since April.

Kent State nixed the interim label and made Mark Carney the 24th head coach in the history of the program on Thursday.

For Mark Carney, the 2025 season has been fruitful. Taking up a perilous 1-23 record from his predecessor, Kenni Burns, the interim head coach led the roster to a 3-5 streak.

Carney was previously elevated to interim head coach in April 2025 following the termination of then-head coach Kenni Burns.

An evident turnaround from the year prior prompted Kent State University's athletic director, Randale L. Richmond, to call Carney into his office this week.

On Thursday morning, the Kent State Golden Flashes announced that they were keeping things in-house, removing the interim tag from Mark Carney, and naming him the new head coach of the team. Carney ...

Kent State didn’t have to conduct a national search in order to find its 24th head coach in program history. The Golden ...