Rick Stockstill
Rick Stockstill is most notably known around Rutherford County as the head football coach for Middle Tennessee University for the last 13 years. Football runs in the family, as his own father coached him during high school, and he carried on the tradition by coaching his son, Brent. The family tradition is living on through Brent who is now a coach at Florida Atlantic University, and his daughter, Emily, who is working for her alma mater, the University of Alabama, in the football office.
Stories from the Sidelines
There are sports fans, and then there are SPORTS FANS. The latter are the people who go out of their way to cheer on their team. Miles traveled adding into the thousands, a wardrobe heavily accented with a single color, and crazy adventures that land one in jail are the stories that “Big Fans” tell with pride. Something like the fisherman, the tales just keep getting bigger the later the season goes on.