MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Rick Stockstill has a nickname for just about everyone associated with the Middle Tennessee football program. Some are trickier to figure out the origin of, like Associate AD for Communications Mark Owens being referred to as "AC" at every weekly press conference (short for Athletic Communications, so I've been told). Others, like "BB" for Director of Football Operations Brent Brock, are fairly intuitive.
After Saturday's 48-21 loss to Western Kentucky, Stockstill didn't coin a new nickname for his true freshman quarterback, Nicholas Vattiato, who was thrown into the fire with his first career start and tossed five interceptions alongside two touchdowns just north of the TN/KY state line.