MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — On a sunny August day in Murfreesboro on the campus of Middle Tennessee, you can hear a lot as you walk by.
Parking your car outside Dean A. Hayes Track and Soccer Stadium might have you hear the traffic of Greenland Drive zoom by. Walk a little farther to hear the crash of pads and helmets and the shrill blasts whistles of fall camp on the practice grass behind Reese Smith Jr. Field.
But a little farther, through the iron gates of Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium, and all of the sound of the outside fades away.