Gameday: Pirates Set To Face Rival Seahawks; Lady Pirates Travel To William & Mary Tuesday Night…Big week begins for Montgomery, Pirates…Montgomery answers tough questions about job security at ECU…Football fight suspensions will leave NC State shorthanded against ECU …SEC coordinator mentioned in connection with possible East Carolina opening…In focusing on Mack Brown, UNC adding to recent moves to hire football coaching retreads …Experience Can Only Take Mack Brown’s Second Stint at UNC So Far…UCF vows not to let McKenzie Milton injury stop Knights from winning conference championship…South Carolina-Akron crowd could be historically low. USC doing its part to fill seats…Virginia Tech hopes to extend bowl streak with win over Marshall…This time Charlotte Hornets survive a close one, beat Milwaukee Bucks…Capitals present Barry Trotz his Stanley Cup ring before beating his new team

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Bonesville.net

• From the Anchor Desk
  More questions than answers
• Audio Feature
  Coach Mo Weekly Presser

ecupirates.com

• Gameday: Pirates Set To Face Rival Seahawks
• Lady Pirates Travel To William & Mary Tuesday Night
• Coach Montgomery’s Weekly Press Conference Quotes
• Morris Announces The Signing Of Sibel Tanik

Greenville Daily Reflector

• Big week begins for Montgomery, Pirates
• Monk has unique stealing skill

The East Carolinian

• ECU coming off busy holiday week
• Coach Mo Press
• Basketball ready to take on Seahawks
• Mo’ addresses future job security

Montgomery discusses future, Wolfpack, at weekly news conference WNCT 9

WITN 7

• ECU men’s basketball set to face rival UNCW
• Montgomery answers tough questions about job security at ECU

Nov. 26 6 p.m. sports: ECU coach testy during presser; UNC close to re-hiring Brown WCTI 12

247 Sports

• Ifedi’s status with Pirates unclear
• Montgomery fields questions about job security, future with ECU
• ECU releases depth chart for NC State game

On eve of ECU meeting, UNCW’s Gadsden proving team player Wilmington Star-News

Football fight suspensions will leave NC State shorthanded against ECU Raleigh News and Observer

SEC coordinator mentioned in connection with possible East Carolina opening Saturday Down South

Report links South Carolina’s Bryan McClendon to possible opening at East Carolina Garnet and Black Attack

Tiger Assistant Coaches Are In the Head Coaching Rumor Mills WLTX

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• UConn’s Collier and USF’s Harvey Tabbed Women’s Basketball Weekly Awardees
• Cincinnati’s Cumberland and Houston’s Alley Jr. Earn Weekly Awards
• American Athletic Conference Championship Coaches’ Teleconference
• Tulane, Cincinnati, Temple Players Take Final Weekly Honors of 2018
• Wichita State Hangs 90 Points on Rice

BCSNN

• AAC Daily: UCF and Memphis Set For Another AAC Championship
• UCF Knights Continue Climb, Rise to No. 7 in AP and Coaches Polls

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF vows not to let McKenzie Milton injury stop Knights from winning conference championship
• Josh Heupel: UCF QB McKenzie Milton a fighter, recovering smoothly from injury

UCF teammate: QB McKenzie Milton, still hospitalized with knee injury, says he “got to walk” ESPN

UCF football moves ahead with lazy river for players after gift 247 Sports

Memphis Tigers come back from 4-4 to AAC Championship Game Memphis Commercial Appeal

College football bowl projections: UC Bearcats to Shreveport? Florida? Birmingham? Cincinnati Enquirer

Tampa Bay Times

• After November swoon, USF hopes for December surge…in recruiting
• Most of USF’s 2018 signing class preserve redshirts

Tyler Polley making his presence felt for Dan Hurley, UConn men Hartford Courant

Which bowl game will Temple football play in? Philly.com

UT Arlington at Tulsa: Hurricane looks to bounce back from Las Vegas losses Tulsa World

Houston Chronicle

• UH fires defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio
• UH’s Kendal Briles to interview to be Texas State head coach
• Tilman Fertitta to be inducted into UH Athletics Hall of Honor

Bill Wagner: Business as usual won’t cut it if Navy wants to compete in AAC Annapolis Capital

Wichita Eagle

• Wichita State imposes its will for the first time this season in rout of Rice
• WSU takeaways: Marshall pleased with Shockers’ defense in rout of Rice: ‘They felt us’

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• Former North Carolina coach Mack Brown to be tapped to lead UNC football team again
• Mack Brown’s return to UNC a fever dream that could actually work
• Mack Brown returns to coach football at UNC. And everyone has something to say about it
• Football fight suspensions will leave NC State shorthanded against ECU
• Clemson aside, here’s the latest breakdown on the ACC’s muddled bowl picture

Washington Post

• North Carolina set to embrace Mack Brown, whom fans once were happy to be rid of
• Racist post about Florida State Coach Willie Taggart prompts outrage, a firing and an investigation
• College football coaching carousel: Mike Leach shuts down Texas Tech talk

Experience Can Only Take Mack Brown’s Second Stint at UNC So Far SI.com

In focusing on Mack Brown, UNC adding to recent moves to hire football coaching retreads USA Today

Les Miles at Kansas? Mack Brown at UNC? Are there really no new, young coaches out there worth hiring?  YAHOO! Sports

Back to the future: Report has Mack Brown returning as UNC football coach WRAL

Winston Salem Journal

• Mack Brown to be tapped to lead UNC football team again
• App State beats Winston-Salem State to snap a 4-game losing streak. Here are five takeaways from the game.

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• As staff shakeup continues at Old Dominion, coach Bobby Wilder vows improvement in 2019
• ODU coach Bobby Wilder fires defensive coordinator Rich Nagy, other assistants
• Virginia Tech hopes to extend bowl streak with win over Marshall
• Hobbled Hokies found a way to beat Virginia in a season of setbacks
• Hall, Thornhill, Zaccheaus among eight U.Va. All-ACC honorees

Columbia The State

• Gamecocks can’t stop Hoover, fall hard at home to Wofford
• How far has South Carolina’s offense come under Bryan McClendon?
• South Carolina basketball starter out ‘indefinitely’ with knee injury
• How Muschamp, Gamecocks have adjusted their recruiting plan this week
• Clemson has 18 players honored as All-ACC
• Muschamp’s first boss encouraged him to stay in football. Saturday, they face off
• South Carolina-Akron crowd could be historically low. USC doing its part to fill seats
• Clemson’s Brent Venables confirms it: He’s talked with Texas Tech

The Associated Press

• ACC issues 1-half suspensions to 7 players involved in brawl
• AP sources: UNC has agreement to bring back Brown as coach
• Alliance “protect or pick” draft: All about the QBs
• SEC fines Texas A&M $50,000 after Aggie students flood field
• For Northwestern, Big Ten title game presents big chance
• It’s must-win for Georgia, if not Alabama in SEC title game
• Duke freshmen look to bounce back after reality check