MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Wide receiver coach Shane Tucker never got the chance to take the field as a Blue Raider against Tennessee State when he was a player under Rick Stockstill.
The Tigers, who MTSU has played 20 times since the teams' first meeting in 1973, had not played the Blue Raiders since 1998 in what would be MTSU's last season in the Ohio Valley Conference, where the Tigers still compete at the FCS level today, when Tucker was a student athlete from 2013-2017. But, thanks to a 2019 home for MTSU and another scheduled for this year, Tucker joined Rick Stockstill's staff just in time to get a chance to be a part of the rivalry.