Middle Tennessee State football will not retain offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder, per a report by FootballScoop.com.
Blue Raiders head coach Derek Mason was retained for the 2026 season, but the program has lost three assistants since early November. Reeder was hired by Mason as OC when he took the Blue Raider job in December 2023.
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Wide receivers coach Cornelius Williams was fired on Nov. 11 with three games remaining 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 consecutive season, averaged just 17 points through the first six games and finished the year averaging 22.4 a contest.
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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.
Over two seasons the MTSU offense averaged just over 20 points a contest under Reeder.
Reeder spent the 2022-23 seasons at NIU as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Prior to that he was the interim quarterback 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.
Middle Tennessee Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks coach Bodie Reeder watches players during Middle Tennessee’s football practice on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, at MTSU.
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 the search is on for a new OC at MTSU, the Blue Raiders will presumably enter the 2026 season with Gagliano behind center, but will be losing leading rusher Jekail Middlebrook (1,162 yards rushing/receiving), who reportedly will be entering the transfer portal.
Riverdale product DJ Taylor rushed for 199 yards (second to Middlebrook) and two touchdowns while adding 54 receiving yards and a TD.
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.
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