MTSU athletics director Chris Massaro has been leading the department since 2005.
During his tenure, MTSU has reached the pinnacle in school history in many sports, and helped guide the program into Conference USA in 2012. Since joining the league, the Blue Raiders have enjoyed success across the board.
Academic enhancement has also skyrocketed under Massaro's leadership. Massaro inherited a football program with a national-low score of 812 and saw it increase to 990 (on a 1,000-point scale) in 2009. In November 2014, MTSU's student-athletes posted a Graduation Success Rate of 87 percent, which set a new school record and matched that mark again in 2015.