Change is coming to the MTSU Blue Raiders coaching staff on the heels of an incredibly disappointing 3-9 second season for the program under Derek Mason, the former Vanderbilt head coach.

Sources tell FootballScoop that Mason is parting ways with offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder, who had four times coordinated offenses before joining Mason’s inaugural Blue Raiders staff.

Reeder, also the quarterbacks coach, helped the MTSU program produce multiple All-Conference USA selections in 2024 — highlighted by Holden Willis, a Greenback, Tennessee, native who earned multiple all-conference and All-America selections at wideout.

Previously, Reeder coordinated offenses at Football Championship Subdivision programs Eastern Washington and Northern Iowa; those stints book-ended work at the Football Bowls Subdivision level at North Texas and Utah State.

Beginning his playing career at Wyoming, Reeder concluded at Eastern Illinois and also started his coaching career there at his alma mater. Four years later, he landed his first Power Conference post as an offensive analyst for Mike Gundy’s Oklahoma State program.

While Reeder’s final Blue Raiders offense struggled early in the season and finished with a 22.6 points-per-game scoring average, the unit showed strong improvement late in the year as it averaged 28.25 ppg for the final four contests, when MTSU posted two of its three wins. 

Mason’s tenure atop the MTSU program thus far has been a disaster. He has posted back-to-back 3-9 campaigns, won just four C-USA contests and saw this past 2025 season open ominously when his team was dominated by Jeff Faris’ FCS-resident Austin Peay Governors program, an in-state school with vastly fewer resources.

Overall, Mason — still a well-regarded defensive mind — has seen his head coaching overall record plummet to 33-73 in nine years as a head coach.