Player Known For His Smile, TD In His First USF Game Skip directly to the full story. By MARTIN FENNELLY Published: Jan 18, 2007 Related Links: More Martin Fennelly Columns ADVERTISEMENT More from this channel: Search for more information: Site Search Archives Keyword TBO.com Site Search | Tribune archive from 1990 It never makes sense. It never makes any sense. All we know this morning is that his name was Keeley Dorsey and that in the first college football game he ever played in his short life, he ran 52 yards on one play, all the way for a touchdown. All we know is that a young man ran out of tomorrows on Wednesday during a workout in a University of South Florida weight room. All we know is a scrap or two of game video, his USF media guide mug shot, a short sketch of his college and high school career. We don't know much. We only know it never makes sense. Always Had A Smile Jim Leavitt, Keeley Dorsey's head coach at South Florida, said the freshman running back was "always, always happy." Kyle Rice, head coach in Dorsey's senior season at Tallahassee Lincoln High, described a kid who always wore a smile to school. "I have trouble talking about that smile in the past tense," USF running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Carl Franks said. Keeley Dorsey was one of the USF players chosen to host recruits last weekend. He gave them the full Keeley. "He was just a happy kid," Franks said. Franks cried with his players Wednesday. He prayed with them. He decided that when he saw his daughters, he'd hug them hard. "How do you explain this?" Franks said. "How do you explain why you lose people who are so young and have so much promise?" We don't know much this morning. We know that Keeley Dorsey carried the football 10 times in his first and last USF season. I know from the media guide that he and I shared a birthday. Only he was born decades after me. He was going to turn 20 this summer. His mom's name is Tammie. We've read this story before. We read it five years ago when a Florida State player named Devaughn Darling died during a workout. We read it when a Florida player named Eraste Autin collapsed after one. We read it last summer when two football players in Tampa Bay died in the heat, two children far younger than even Keeley Dorsey. We only know it never makes sense. Not on a field, not in a weight room, not on a highway, not anywhere. Parents burying their children will never make any sense at all. He Was Living A Dream Details will emerge. There will be a funeral. And then Keeley Dorsey will pass from the headlines, if not from a lot of hearts. Late Wednesday, someone on the phone asked Carl Franks what people should know about a kid they never knew. "That he was doing something he dreamed of, playing college football, something kids dream about from when they're 6 or 7. He was living a dream every day." How do you explain this? Carl Franks tried. "God needed him more than we did, I guess." http://www.tbo.com/sports/MGB8E43Q2XE.html