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

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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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Drinks With The Soft BA Ll Team

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Why did you think you are cool drinking with softball girls. In one occasion you had a senior over to your house and drank with her. Is this ethical? Responsible? Morally correct? "

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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

Date: March 14, 2025

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"Why is it ok to drink with softball players and why would you even want to do this? Aren’t you married? "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Roll Title Ix, Roll Title Ix, Rollllllll Title Ix.

Date: March 13, 2025

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"Roll title IX, roll TITLE IX, ROLLLLLLLL TITLE IX. Take a look at the differences in everything softball and baseball related. Take a look at what Kevin Tidey is even ALLOWED to do compare to the counterpart of softball. These sports should be equitable and THEY ARE NOT. NCAA needs to start an investigation. We won’t even get to all the unethical stuff Tidey does. These FEMALE athletes deserve more. "

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Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Kevin Tidey Has Committed So Many Fireable Offenses At Davenport University

Date: March 13, 2025

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"Ronda Varnesdeel and Kevin Tidey have been bullies since their employment at Davenport University. Ronda Varnesdeel is highly unprofessional and is a hot head. She makes student athletes cry and holds her title and power over them. If you befriend her son who isn’t very good at his sport or at school or really anything. Case in point he went to 3 different high schools bc he couldn’t make the starting line up for football. What a great road map for other less than average student athletes to follow. That’s her soft spot for you to get whatever you want. Can’t make the starting line up - go complain to her, don’t work very hard at your sport - go complain to her she will have sympathy for you because that has been her life through her son. Kevin Tidey has committed so many fireable offenses at Davenport University but a blind eye is turned to it because he has been employed so long. He must have a running list of those in charge because they let Kevin get away with providing alcohol to student athletes, use Davenport issued equipment for his family and let his family benefit financially from events that the baseball program and university should be benefiting from. The list could go on and on. Two humans that shouldn’t be allowed to coach or be around student athletes. Creating future monsters the rest of the world will soon have to deal with. Entitlement U. "

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Men's Baseball

Kevin Tidey

Men's Baseball Head Coach

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | MIAA

Davenport University Athletic Cover Up

Date: March 13, 2025

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"The Davenport Athletic department has been covering up horrible acts committed by employees of Davenport. From the baseball coach allowing his players to drink during games, the baseball coach drinking with the softball team, a facilities full time employee bragging and boasting about dating a football player- disgusting. Rules and standards here only apply to certain people but the ones who are buddies get away with everything. Someone should take a deep dive into the entire athletic department to see ALL the terrible acts they let their friends get away with. "

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