Education
Kennedy is a native of Keyport, New Jersey, and attended Red Bank Catholic High School.
Kennedy is a native of Keyport, New Jersey, and attended Red Bank Catholic High School.
He was previously the men"s basketball coach at Towson University, Iona College, Florida State University, DePaul University, Pace University and the University of Montana. He is a 1975 graduate of King"s College. After college, he became an assistant coach to Jim Valvano at Iona.
In 1979 when Valvano left for North Carolina State University, Kennedy took the head job at Iona at the age of 27.
In six years, he led the Gaels to two National Institute of Technology and two National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament appearances. He compiled a 124–60 record while at Iona.
After Iona, Kennedy went to Florida State. He would spend 11 years in Tallahassee, leading the Seminoles to 2 National Institute of Technology and 5 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament appearances including a Sweet Sixteen and Elite 8 appearances.
He was appointed to succeed Joey Meyer as head coach at DePaul on June 12, 1997.
In 2000, Kennedy led the Blue Demons to their first National Collegiate Athletic Association appearance in eight years. Kennedy was one of the youngest coaches to ever take three programs to the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. While in Chicago, Kennedy compiled the number one recruiting class in the country and took the team to the National Institute of Technology and National Collegiate Athletic Association in his second and third season.
DePaul was the first program to lose five underclassmen in a two year period to the National Basketball Association in 2000 and 2001.
In 2002, Kennedy was hired to coach Montana. While at Montana, Kennedy served as the President of the NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches).
His two year record with the Grizzlies was 23–35 before he left to take the head coaching job at Towson University in 2004. At the end of the 2010-2011 season, Kennedy was fired as Towson"s head coach ending 31 consecutive years as a Doctorate-1 head coach.
On May 7, 2013 Kennedy accepted the head coaching job at Pace, a Division II school who competes in the Northeast-10 Conference.
Kennedy parted ways with Pace on March 2, 2015.
During his tenure at FSU, he won 203 games and lost 130. During the Seminoles first year in the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination, he was the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Coach of the Year in 1992 and led FSU to back to back 2nd place finishes in the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination. The Blue Demons had won 5 games in the final Meyer season. During his second year at Pace, Kennedy won his 499th game against Stonehill College on January 10, 2015.
