College Football

Getting To Know Cody Kennedy

Cody Kennedy 12-18-23




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Logan Lowery, Assistant Director/Communications






New Mississippi State head coach Jeff Lebby has collectively hired one of the top coaching staffs in all of college football.

In an effort to get to know Lebby’s assistant coaches a little better, they each sat down with HailState.com staff writers Joel Coleman and Logan Lowery for a series of interviews that will be released over the coming days.

The interview series begins with offensive line coach Cody Kennedy.

Q: What is your connection to coach Lebby and how did you figure out that Mississippi State is the place that you needed to be?

Kennedy: “It was really the story of coaching and the coaching world. The world kind of shrinks when you get through your career and you meet different people. Coach (Kendal) Briles was at the University of Arkansas and we had a lot of success there and once I was coaching O-line for him, that kind of carried on and created a relationship with coach Lebby. He was in town a couple of times over the summer and we were able to build that relationship.

“Once he got the job here it was a really exciting situation and opportunity for me to link up with one of the best and young offensive minds in college football that has had success that’s traveled to multiple locations. I think it’s a really exciting time to be here.”

Q: You’ve been in the SEC and are obviously familiar with what it’s like in the trenches in this league. When…

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