Blue Raiders head coach Derek Mason was hired for the 2026 season, but the program has lost three assistants since the beginning of November. Mason hired Reeder as OC when he accepted the Blue Raider position in December 2023.
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Wide receivers coach Cornelius Williams was fired on Nov. 11 with three games left in the season. Just a week earlier, the team announced that offensive line coach Kendall Simmons had decided to step away from the game for personal reasons.
Prior to the emergence of redshirt freshman quarterback Roman Gagliano, MTSU’s offense was inconsistent during the 2025 season.
The Blue Raiders, who finished 3-9 for the second straight season, averaged just 17 points in the first six games and finished the year averaging 22.4 per game.
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Behind Gagliano, who started the final three games, MTSU averaged over 29 points and finished the season winning its final two games.
For two seasons, MTSU’s offense averaged just over 20 points per game under Reeder.
Reeder spent the 2022-23 seasons at NIU as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Prior to that, he was interim quarterbacks coach and offensive analyst at Auburn in 2021, offensive coordinator at Utah State in 2020, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Texas in 2019 and offensive coordinator at Eastern Washington from 2017-18.
He has also coached at Oklahoma State, Wisconsin-Stout and Eastern Illinois.
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As a player, Reeder began his college career at Wyoming in 2005, then transferred to Eastern Illinois, where the 2010 graduate had 3,741 passing yards, 23 touchdown passes and 356 career completions in 30 games.
While searching for a new OC at MTSU, the Blue Raiders will likely enter the 2026 season with Gagliano behind center, but will lose leading rusher Jekail Middlebrook (1,162 rushing/receiving yards), who will reportedly enter the transfer portal.
Riverdale product DJ Taylor rushed for 199 yards (second behind Middlebrook) and two touchdowns, while adding 54 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Cecil Joyce covers high school sports and MTSU athletics for The Daily News Journal. Contact him at cjoyce@dnj.com and follow him on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @Cecil_Joyce.
This article originally appeared in the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal: MTSU football fires offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder | Report