Coach Rating: Kevin Tidey at Davenport University

Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Davenport University Has Been Informed

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Everyone at Davenport University has been notified of toxic, unethical, rule breaking employee behavior and they aren’t doing anything about it. The athletic department is a mess. They play employee favorites and let certain people get away with things like sleeping and drinking with student athletes. They don’t like any coach that wants to have standards and an ethical culture or coaches that don’t abuse their resources. They will fire a coach for playing time but not one who drinks with players, sleeps with players, parties with players, changes stats for players, takes their husband out for dinner on Davenport’s dime (Ronda) it’s sickening. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Ronda Was Told He Was Drinking With Student Athletes She Did Nothing

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Would never leave to go anywhere else bc he gets away with murder at Davenport University. A record shouldn’t dictate unethical decisions and give you the ability to drink with student athletes. Ronda his good friend has covered this up and she was well aware of his actions and what he was doing. Ronda should be fired too. It’s honestly not funny they make a joke out of him being the deputy AD. Davenport will cover this all up I’m sure. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Gender Bias At Its Finest

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Is allowed to do anything he wants to do. He doesn’t need approval, he does what he wants to do because somehow he is the boss. Female sport coaches don’t get this luxury. That’s valid gender bias!"

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Encourages His Ga’s To Party With The Team Gotta Bond

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Let’s his Davenport GA’s party with his student athletes and sleep at their houses drunk. The entire sports medicine staff know of this and talk and gossip about it. Instead of doing the right thing. It’s WRONG. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

A History Of Wrecking Davenport’s Equipment. It’s Ok Someone Else Will Pay For It

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Let his daughter crash a golf cart at one of his summer camp tournaments. Think he paid to fix it?? Why is a none Davenport affiliate driving Davenport’s equipment and wrecking it. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Used Go Rout Device Paid By Davenport For His Son’s Travel Ball Team.

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Used GoRout device paid by Davenport for his son’s travel ball team. That’s a fireable offense at every school in the country. Davenport purchases should be used by Davenport members. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Pressuring Trainers To Drink With Him, Great Guy

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Tries to pressure his female trainers to go get drinks with his staff. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Taking Money And Cash From Events Should Be Fired

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Tidey runs baseball tournaments that he calls camps and lets his kids and himself pocket money made from those camps and takes parking cash. Thats a firable offense at every other school in the country!! "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Davenport Cover Up. Drinks With Athletes And Uses Davenport’s Money For Personal Gain

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Davenport Univeristy allows him to drink with student athletes and covers it up for him. They also allow him to abuse the softball coaches and field. He abuses his power and rents cars on Davenport’s dime to go to his son’s tournaments. Abuser. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Drinks With Female Student Athletes

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Kevin Tidey drinks with student athletes and has them over to his house. Wildly unprofessional. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

West Michigan’s Biggest Drunk Drivers

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Kevin Tidey and Ronda Varnesdeel have been covering up their own mistakes like you know doable offenses since they began at the school. They both personally benefit financially when it’s not warranted to use the credit card for themselves. They both have been very inappropriate and have drank with student athletes. They both have left bars after drinking too much and drove home, they both have a lot of covering up they have been doing. Just because you have worked at a place for a long time doesn’t mean you should be allowed to cover each others fireable offenses. The school should be embarrassed. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Has Players Getting Drunk And Running From The Police

Date: March 15, 2025

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"The Univeristy will no doubt let this man keep doing whatever he wants to do. They are winning again so slide it under the rug. He has players getting drunk and running from police but all is well if you’re a good player. He won’t help you if you aren’t a good player so. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Full Time Employee In Relationships With Student Athletes

Date: March 15, 2025

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"Tidey’s social media manager and photographer - even though her full time job is to do facilities - but doesn’t. Was in a sexual relationship with the starting qb last year and told everyone about it. Everyone was fine with the full time employee having a relationship with a student athlete. I’m assuming that was fine because baseball needs their photographer and Tidey makes her do whatever he wants. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

The Univeristy Is Aware Of Kevin Tidey Drinking With Softball Players And They Don’t Care. Not A Great Place To Send Your Young Female Athletes.

Date: March 15, 2025

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"The univeristy is aware of Kevin Tidey drinking with softball players and they don’t care. Not a great place to send your young female athletes."

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Isn’t A Good Neighbor To The Softball Program

Date: March 15, 2025

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"As a former facilities worker here - it is indeed true Tidey really destroys the softball field and then takes no accountability. It was expected the coaches were to pick up his mess and fix everything. He wrecks their equipment. Everyone knew about it and they let him bully them. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Got Rid Of Male Trainer Bc He Told On His Team For Bad Behavior. It’s Fine Though During Winning Season All Slides

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Tidey was in full support of the beer Olympics we all did during Covid - even though we weren’t supposed to be in large groups. He thought it was funny and got our male trainer in trouble for telling people about it. The trainer thought it was wrong. Since then they have had all female athletic trainers. I guess he doesn’t like when a man stands up to him, he can manipulate “females” "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

No Accountability For The Baseball Coach

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Being one of the players that got alcohol from the baseball team I was first mad at my softball coaches for trying to hold me accountable - when I heard the baseball coach laughed with the boys about it - I thought I was getting mistreated. I now see they were just trying to do what’s best for me and help me grow as a person. I have countless other stories of the baseball coach doing this just like this. Their standards and what they get away with aren’t fair to other athletes. They get away with it bc of the baseball coach. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Applauded Baseball Players For Buying Under Aged Softball Players Alcohol

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Allows his players to vape, ZYN and drink in the dugout during games. Thinks it’s funny how players bought softball players alcohol - they were underage. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Same Strength Coach Softball Program Treated Like “Females”

Date: March 14, 2025

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"You and Ronda directly tried to ruin the program. I was on the team last year and Preston was our strength coach - he did none of the same things with our program. Baseball and softball have comparable movements- why were we treated less than. Because we are females? "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Ronda Varnesdeel And Kevin Tidey Wanted The Softball Coaches Gone

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Kevin Tidey and Ronda Varnesdeel both played a huge roll in dismantling the softball program. T***y gets away with unethical things year after year. The softball team had coaches that instilled accountability and were moving the culture in the right direction. Plotted against because they know the dark secrets about DU and they were only going on their 4th year. Imagine the cover ups at year 14 haha "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

I Feel So Bad For The Softball Coaches They Didn’t Deserve You

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Watched him abuse the softball coaches. Ronda Varnesdeel and Kevin T***y had a good laugh about it. They both intentionally tried to destroy the program and coaches reputations. Corrupt people "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Abuser Of Davenport Univeristy, The Softball Team, Coaches And Field

Date: March 14, 2025

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"As a member of the softball team we watched this man not even ride with his team on the bus - he rents an expensive car. This man literally stayed the night at a hotel when they played grand valley - less than 30 minutes away. Always wants to drink with his staff and pressures his athletic trainers to drink with them - they usually are female. Allows his GA’s to party with his team. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Abused The Softball Coaches In Multiple Ways

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Watched this man ruin the reputation of the softball coaches and program right before all of our eyes. He would take the Kabota - he has an all turf field - and hide it from the softball coaches - they even hand dragged the field multiple times. Not a good person. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Abused The Softball Coaches And Our Field

Date: March 14, 2025

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"I was a member of Davenport softball team and can confirm that he abused our softball coaches and he abused our field and locker room. He drank with members of the softball team at farmers athletic complex and he invited one girl to his home. A pathetic bully of a man. Please stop his abuse of female sports - specifically softball. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Drinks With The Softball Team Sick

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Ronda Varnesdeel covered up unethical behavior for years for this man, her aquanis buddy. Stop DRINKING WITH SOFTBALL PLAYERS "

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