MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – For over 40 years, not much changed around Middle Tennessee's baseball program, at least at the top.
Coaches with prior familiarity to the program were at the helm since the early 1970s before the summer of 2018 brought a new manager, creating plenty of intrigue around an unfamiliar environment with the baseball season getting ready to kick off on Feb. 15.
New coach brings new everything
After 25-year head coach Steven Peterson retired in 2012, Jim McGuire, who'd spent 20 years as an assistant on Peterson's staff, took over and guided the Blue Raiders for the next six seasons until last summer.