Sean Lewis has a tough road ahead. He is inheriting a program that is not used to winning as Kent State has won 12 games in four years under former head coach Paul Haynes. The 2018 roster is lacking in size, which can be problematic against established MAC East programs like Akron, Miami, and Ohio. Lewis’s first recruiting class (which tends to be one of the more inferior classes of a coach’s tenure) was the highest-rated class for KSU since 2009. However, there are a few things in Lewis’s favor that can help facilitate the turnaround for the Golden Flashes.