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Akron RB Dennis Kennedy (official thread)

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All I can think about are the recent hardships that Dennis has had to overcome. This kid has done nothing but impress me with his passion and heart. Although it may be of little consolation...this kid IS a Buckeye in my mind. I wish him all the luck in everything he pursues. I hope that the obsticales that he's run into will make him a stronger person instead of weighing him down. I'll cheer for Dennis Kennedy no matter where he ends up. Stay strong DK!
 
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This is to DK if you ever get to read it...

I don't know much about you except reading bits and pieces of information posted here. My heart does go out to you when I learned that you father has passed away; for I know how that feels as both of my parents have passed away. I am very blessed to have guardians and semi-adoptive parents to look over me...most importantly, God is my true Parent, and that brings great peace. Please keep your head and heart in the right direction and God will guide you to a better place for your life...and I don't mean money and fame.
I appreciate what HH is doing for you, and I certainly understand his frustrations toward the OSU Admin office and the football staff. Sending an assistant to your home is indded not professional, and it does not sound like coach Tressel will do that; may be it was done before he had a chance to act??? Never the less, I hope coach T will pay you a personal visit and explain his heart away. Thanks for being a great sport, and I hope to see you do well in your life...football or not!

To the rest of the BP readers...

May be this is why many talented recruits (Ringer and others) are not getting their schollies right now is because the coaches don't want to have to go through this kind of head/heart aches of pulling away their schoolies. As you all know these kinds of actions do not look good for us in the national recruiting limelight...whether we have legitimate reasons or not!
 
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to me....this just fucking blows....his father dies....yet his mother still comes up to the spring game (iirc).....both of them know that beinig in cbus and playing for the bucks is the best thing for the entire family....

i could see it if the young man had to go to fork union for a year and then come back....what sucks is that he, morgan, morris and others have ZERO difficulty being cleared for other schools....

i dont like this at all....this will come to kick us in the ass soon....
 
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I feel sorry for this kid but, I dont want to set him up to fail, if he is taking freshman level high school classes what is going to happen incollege? seems the toughing up of admissions has trickled down to athletics.

Didn't we pass up a real real good player to get DK another good rb i think, who was it and where did he end up?
 
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OSU is a lot bigger than me. If the kid sees value in going there, he will.

Although I went to OSU, and love the University, my first priority is to the kid. It will always be that way.

Everything is a learning process. With Cooper things went one way, with Conley another, with Peterson & Tressel another. One thing is for sure, the education, the time playing at OSU, and the family that you become a member of, by having a degree and playing for OSU, is <!--EZCODE BOLD START-->absolutely<!--EZCODE BOLD END--> the best thing a kid and adult can experience.

So, if a 330lb, 5.0-40, 435lb bench press kid, can see the value of going to a school where Orlando Pace, and over 75 NFL former/current linemen went, I am all for it!
 
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I've been amazed at some of the posts on BN saying that OSU is free of blame in the situation and that Dennis should have made the grade etc...

I can not emphasize this enough...College admission standards are not publicized for a reason...it's because they are intended to allow admission to be determined based on individual circumstances. People can make the argument that the DK situation should be black and white statistics, but I think that's bull crap. Life isn't black and white! Some people are born in poverty, some in riches...Some people have birth defects and others are given gifts to play sports at high levels...Some people grow old with their parents, others lose them at a young age. Personal circumstances should merit additional consideration. When OSU offered Dennis, we obviously thought that he had the intelligence and ambition to make it as a Buckeye. He has been through some of the worst trials any young man should have to endure, and he has bounced back to do everything our staff asked to play here. This kid bleeds scarlet and gray! I hate to see ungrateful, "me-first" punks like WW in Miami and a few of the players that have been suspended here. They get breaks over and over and continue to blow their second chances.

I just wish Dennis would be given a break somewhere...If there is justice anywhere in this world, this kid deserves it.
 
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this will be my only post on this thread:

Tressel and the Football Staff had better get on the same page as the Admissions Office or this shit will get out of hand... actually, IMHO, it already HAS... to me, for some strange reason, this smacks of sabatoge...

Find out what the f-- is going on in the Admissions Office, and get this sh-- straightened out, PRONTO... two schollies yanked for no clear reason is just mind blowing... at least when Coop lost 6 recruits in '99 , we KNEW they didn't make the grade...

something is rotten in Denmark...
 
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the only thing rotten are grades, scores, and school rankings. Let me ask you this: If DK or ANYONE had gotten say a 3.5 with a 30 ACT and say been in the top 25% of his class, do you think he would have gotten in? Answer is OF COURSE! The simple fact is - if these kids are offered schollies AND they have great ACADEMICS to back it up - they get in. PERIOD. So who is to blame here. The administration. The student. The teachers. The coach. ? who? I say the ultimate responsibility is on the student. I screwed off in high school. I CHOSE not to excel. I couldn't have gone to college if I wanted. I ended up around 70% in a class of 880. I went into the military. After I got my shiat together, I went to community college. Graduated with high honors because I was much more mature at that stage in my life. I then transfered to a university and ended up with honors. I wasn't an idiot, I was just young and dumb and didn't care. My choices. I dealt with them.

I think things might have been handled better only from a coaching staff position, but I am not privy to what transpired and for what reason. I would have called if I was a head coach, but who knows what reasons there are behind that.

The very simple fact for me is if Dennis had done better (not saying he did terrible), but if he had done better and made it a no brainer, he would be in. I think too much blame gets placed in the wrong spots. Mind you, just as I had 4 years to get my stuff together, so did Dennis. I think, and its been said on here before now, that sometimes people wait until their last year to "fix" things. If I knew I had Division I talent to do ANYTHING...water polo or track or tiddly winks... my butt would be doing everything on the field AND OFF!!!!
 
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Ok, it is really time to let this one die out.

But first, I was there when Cooper had the problems with the kids. NONE of them made it through the NCAA Clearinghouse. HUGE DIFFERENCE. IMO Cooper/Conley were very good recruiters.

Dennis school ranking was above the OSU requirement.

Dennis will be fine. He has talked to 5 diffrent schools and will be on plane to cinci today, then Pitt, then Akron, then NC State, then UF. He will not sit out a year, and that is the most important thing from my perspective, regardless of how it was handled. All 5 schools have looked at his grades and feel he is OK.

From a recruiting perspective we will learn from this mistake, know what signs to look for when dealing with staff, and advisor our S-A's accordingly.

And with this "moving on" mind set, I have Ronnie "TAZ" Wilson hanging around here. You guys make him want to be a Buckeye! I'll get Carlton Jackson over here too...

GO BUCKS
 
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We are just going to listen to each Coach this week. Mark knows what he can do, as he helped recruit him. The problem is they are stacked at RB. Not that Dennis can't win the starting spot.

Personally, I would like to see him stay somewhere in Ohio. I know the other schools aren't as big, but the quality of life and the experiance is really good there.

My friend Jason Taylor, who plays for Miami is really pushing him hard to go to Akron. Everyone feels he would start this year there in the new west coast offense.

UF is still talking and wants to sit down with him, along with my "good friend" doc holiday.

He and his Mom just need to ask a bunch of questions, listen, pray on it, then make a selection all in the next 7 days!
 
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