Joe Kennedy, a former Holy Cross assistant men's basketball coach, is now executive director of All Vote No Play, a non-profit focused on getting college athletes registered to vote.
As a child, Kennedy remembers his father watching C-Span and reading newspapers to follow what was going on in the political world, but no one in his family had run for office. He first started seriously getting into politics as a student at NorthwesternDuring the summer of 2006, Kennedy worked in Washington, D.C., in the office of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Craig Robinson, an assistant coach at Northwestern with whom Kennedy had grown close, is the brother of Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife.
“I decided to jump on that opportunity,” said Kennedy, who was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection in college and a team captain as a senior. “Basketball was always my first love. Going back to my alma mater, it just seemed like a unique opportunity.” That day, June 3, 2020, after consulting with Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner, Reveno sent out the followingTwitter: “Federal election day, Nov 3rd, needs to be a NCAA mandatory off day. We must empower, educate and guide our athletes to be part of the change. We need action. There is symbolism in every holiday and it’s powerful.”
Shortly after sending that Tweet, Reveno reached out to numerous coaching friends, including Gonzaga’s Mark Few, who was immediately aboard with the idea and got the National Association of Basketball Coaches involved. Reveno’s wife suggested he name the initiative All Voice No Play, and it stuck. He added: “Like any NCAA thing, it’s a little bit jumbled up and not as clean as you’d like because there’s so many cooks in the kitchen. But the fact that it’s in there and people talk about it, and the fact that they even argue about it, I love. The fact we’re talking about it is great.”
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