MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Before each football team group's lift on Sunday, as Middle Tennessee Football continued its preparation for Saturday's game with Tennessee Tech, quarterback Nicholas Vattiato said Director of Strength and Conditioning Jamie Blatnick walked each group out of the weight room, past the vending machines outside the football coaches' locker room, past the equipment room and up the loading dock ramp, taking the groups into the Kennon Sports Hall of Fame.
In a glass case, sitting in the exhibit closest to Blatnick's office inside the building, sat the Totem Pole, known to those associated with MTSU as "Harvey" and to those associated with Tennessee Tech as "Shinny-Ninny", that will be played for once again on Saturday when the Blue Raiders take on the Golden Eagles at 6 p.