East Carolina’s second-year running backs coach Re’quan Boyette was roaming around his old stomping grounds in Durham late last year when he dropped into Hillside High School. Although a native of Wilson in Eastern NC, Boyette spent 14 years of his life in Durham as a player and then coach at Duke University. And Hillside… [ More… ]
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THE SPORTS OBJECTIVE
Pirate Football Playback
Watch this “Pirate Football Playback” episode of the The Sports Objective‘s series of podcasts and YouTube clips. The Sports Objective team of David Richmond, Bubba Rosenbaum, Kyle Barber and Matt Semenza break down East Carolina’s Saturday night shutout of Gardner-Webb, touch on some other highlight games from around the country and glance ahead at the… [ More… ]
Inside Game Day
Pirates post soggy shutout
GREENVILLE — Needing a win for confidence and momentum going into the start of the American Athletic Conference schedule, East Carolina put together a thorough 44-0 victory over Gardner-Webb on Saturday night. The Pirates recorded their first shutout since a season-starting 38-0 win at Duke in 2000. The Bulldogs were limited to 107 total yards,… [ More… ]
Football Feature
Game Day Weather
Tropical storm conditions during the morning should subside and transition to more favorable conditions before the 6 p.m. kickoff between East Carolina and Gardner-Webb at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. There will be a chance of rain before 8 p.m., then a chance of showers until midnight. It will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 60 as… [ More… ]
Al Myatt & Kevin Monroe
Bonesville Pregame Show
Join Al Myatt and Kevin Monroe for the Bonesville Pregame Show as they preview East Carolina’s Saturday, Sept. 23, game with reigning Big South Conference champion Gardner-Webb at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville (6 p.m., ESPN+). Myatt and Monroe analyze the Pirates and their opponent ahead of kickoff each week. With decades of experience as a… [ More… ]
VIEW FROM THE EAST
Pirates need first ‘W’ vs. G-W once more
East Carolina and Gardner-Webb have one win between them this season and that lone victory is not on the Pirates’ side of the ledger. After three matchups with favored teams, including road trips to No. 2 Michigan and Appalachian State, the schedule appears to give the Pirates a break with a contest at home against… [ More… ]
THE SPORTS OBJECTIVE
Pirate Football Playback
Watch this “Pirate Football Playback” episode of the The Sports Objective‘s series of podcasts and YouTube clips. Pirate Sports Network color analyst and ECU Hall of Famer Andrew Bayes joins The Sports Objective team of David Richmond, Bubba Rosenbaum, Matt Semenza and Kyle Barber to break down East Carolina’s 43-28 road loss to Appalachian State… [ More… ]
Inside Game Day
Three comebacks lift App State over ECU
BOONE — Appalachian State overcame deficits of 7-0, 21-10 and 28-22 before a record tying crowd of 40,168 at Kidd Brewer Stadium for a 43-28 win over East Carolina on Saturday. The Pirates slipped to 0-3 for the first time since 2017 with losses from teams whose combined record is 7-1, including No. 2 Michigan… [ More… ]
Football Feature
Game Day Weather
East Carolina visits Appalachian State today for a 3:30 p.m. kickoff. The temperature in Boone is expected to be 70 degrees at the start of the game with a 34 percent chance of rain and wind from the west at five miles per hour. By game’s end the temperature will drop to 64 degrees, the… [ More… ]