MURFREESBORO, Tenn -- Richard Kinley loves his mornings.
The routine he's established — waking up and downing the two bottles of water he keeps on his bedside table, opening his phone to the two bible verses his app has given for him to read that day, hopping in the shower, and eating breakfast — gets his mind right for the day.
"You start in the morning," Kinley said. "If you start off bad, your whole day is going to be bad."
That mindset has helped turn Richard Kinley into one of the younger leaders on the Blue Raider defense this fall.