MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — If you're a college football coach, you hope you don't have to create a sense of stakes around the Spring Game. If you're Middle Tennessee Head Coach Derek Mason, you hope the benefits that come from consistency, from putting up good tape, from making the most of your chances now to ensure you get more chances in the future is enough to motivate your players as it's done all spring.
"Your playing time is not between me and you, it's between you and you," Mason relayed as a message to the Blue Raiders early after he was hired this past December.