Tracy Jackson knows what it means to wait his turn.
The 6-foot-1, 301-pound junior guard didn’t make his first start on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offensive line until the season opener at West Georgia in late August. He hasn’t come out of the starting lineup since.
So when Jackson talks about what the Mocs value as a team, what they think it takes to be successful, his perspective matters.
“The culture has been insanely great because each game we are not just going out just to fight for Chattanooga, but we’re fighting for each other,” Jackson, who redshirted as a freshman and appeared in six games last year, said after practice Tuesday. “We all know that we’re playing for the person next to us, and we all have one goal that we want to achieve.”
That culture faces a different kind of test Saturday.