MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — These days in college athletic departments, Senior Day ceremony preparations can occasionally come with a bit of a surprise.
Not in the timing, of course, which is set months in advance. Nor in the specific pageantry of the day itself, which is meticulously organized by both the teams themselves and the various all-sports support staff that make so many of our games on campus possible. But rather, the surprise can come in who is being honored on Senior Day.
With so many players transferring into Murfreesboro and/or having extra years of eligibility due to COVID, the old method of just adding up the years a player has played in the college to figure out who will walk on Senior Day is less and less fruitful.