ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- James Perry had been Bryant University's football coach for less than a month when his new players came to him with a combination of a request and a suggestion. There was a lacrosse player on campus -- possibly the best athlete at the school -- who expressed interest in playing football.
Would Perry reach out? Would he even be interested? Perry, still learning his team and preparing to install a new offense, figured it couldn’t hurt. So he inquired. Tom Kennedy was interested, which is how Perry ended up sitting next to Kennedy’s parents at one of Bryant’s first lacrosse games of the 2017 season, telling them he wanted their son to play two sports for the second time in his college career.