COLUMN: Taking a Middle Moment and Making it Happen

Football 1/14/2024 9:22:00 PM Sam Doughton, MTSU Athletic Communications MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Even when school is not in session on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, the Murphy Center is never quiet.

There's always a basketball being dribbled, a coach on the phone with a student-athlete or recruit (depending on the time of the year) or, since the beginning of construction of the Student-Athlete Performance Center this summer, the clang of weights being lifted in the temporary weight room of Dance Studio A.

But this Friday, that symphony of activity was joined by the sounds of power drills, metal locking in with metal, Defensive Coordinators reading furniture building…