Blue Raider Review (05/01/2020 - 05/08/2020)

The Blue Raider Review is GoMiddle's weekly column summing up all the coverage we provided to subscribers and non-subscribers as well as rounding up MTSU sports news of the last week.

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Matt continued his Signee Spotlight series, catching up with James Shellman, Bryce Bailey and Ralph Mency:

It is time again to rev up the signee spotlight for the 2020 football recruiting class. This edition is centered around James Shellman IV.

Shellman pledged to Middle Tennessee State on December 4.

https://middletennessee.rivals.com/news/signee-spotlight-question-and-answer-session-with-james-shellman-iv

We are trucking right along with the signee spotlight series. For this edition, we turn our attention to wide receiver prospect Bryce Bailey. Bailey is one of four guys in the 2020 class that projects to be a wideout at the collegiate level. Not counting Bailey, there is Demetric Hardin, Jaylin Lane and JaMichael Thompson.

https://middletennessee.rivals.com/news/signee-spotlight-q-a-conversation-with-bryce-bailey

Middle Tennessee State inked 20 new official scholarship signees for the class of 2020. There is only one guy in the class that is pegged by Rivals to be an athlete. Ralph Mency is that guy. Mency is a two-star prospect out of Jacksonville, Florida.

Mency signed with the Blue Raiders during the initial signing period, which took place in December.

https://middletennessee.rivals.com/news/signee-spotlight-ralph-mency

Tyler reached out to 2021 QB Prospect Matthew Geeting to get his thoughts on his recent MTSU scholarship offer:

"It was a dream come true! Growing up always playing football the goal ever since I really could think was to always to be able to play D1 football! It is crazy now that I’m given the opportunity to play football at the next level and to have an offer from such a great program! It was truly a blessing!"

https://middletennessee.rivals.com/news/q-a-with-2021-qb-prospect-matthew-geeting

The MTSU football staff handed out one scholarship offer this week to 2021 DT Sincere Littles:

With the State of Tennessee easing social distancing restrictions, it appears MTSU coaches are beginning to come back to campus:

And to round out the news, MTSU President Sidney McPhee announced the university is planning to be open as normal to the public/student body beginning in Fall 2020.