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Thursday,
October 4, 2012
By Al Myatt |
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Holland: Visit by Tar Heels in
2013 unlikely
Al Myatt
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ORLANDO — The Atlantic Coast
Conference apparently will play eight league games in football next season
rather than nine as had been initially projected with the addition of new
members Pitt and Syracuse.
East Carolina athletic
director Terry Holland said Thursday night in Orlando that probably doesn't
mean a home game with North Carolina will be salvaged for the 2013 season as
had been contracted earlier.
"We worked hard to work around
the nine games," Holland said. "The rules have changed again. We had already
scheduled for the next couple of years, which is the critical time.
"We're kind of caught right
now. We have no room to mess around with it."
Holland said the Pirates will
have eight Conference USA games next season and are committed to matchups
with four non-conference opponents, which will be announced later. The
nonconference games at present, he said, do not include the Tar Heels.
"It's what we could do with
the ACC playing nine conference games," Holland said of ECU's nonconference
schedule next season. "It would have been nice if they had made that
decision (to play eight league games) earlier."
Holland has indicated that the
Pirates will continue to schedule N.C. State and North Carolina.
"The eight games may work in
our favor in the long run," he said.
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