Howdy, Jon!
Welcome to Jetcareers!! We're glad to have you!!
MTSU is a pretty good school, and if you attend MTSU, you can do your tailwheel work as a lab with MTSU. As a matter a fact, their primary tailwheel CFI is a friend of mine, another MTSU transfer guy, and is a JC member (with like 3 whole posts!!!)...lol. I was a transfer student, and also couldn't really get the MTSU "stamp of approval", so i majored in Aero with an emphasis in Flight Scheduling & Dispatch.
I hear that there's a pretty good flight school in the area with locations in Nashville and Smyrna...PM me if you want more info. . .