Player meeting adds to Gilbert’s comfort level…Former Pirate Hollingsworth Qualifies For 2020 Marathon Olympic Trials…New AAC TV deal provides more money to ECU, but also challenges…ECU fall graduation set for Friday…Houston, Tulsa Pick Up Wins Wednesday…New USF coach Jeff Scott already knows how to beat rival UCF…Former USF coach Willie Taggart hired at Florida Atlantic…Navy linebacker leans on his faith to come to terms with a family tragedy…Adam Fuller to leave Memphis and be named Florida State defensive coordinator…Ricky Rahne’s credentials say he’s ready to rebuild ODU football…Source: Shawn Clark to be named App State head coach on Friday…Panthers quarterback Cam Newton’s surgery on left foot “successful”…Dale Earnhardt Jr. is helping turn NC speedway into a virtual track for online racing…Anthony Rendon leaves Nationals, agrees to seven-year, $245 million deal with the Angels…The Yankee Death Star Is Back

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

The Bradsher Beat: Enduring truths still hold one year later Bonesville.net

Former Pirate Hollingsworth Qualifies For 2020 Marathon Olympic Trials ecupirates.com

Player meeting adds to Gilbert’s comfort level  Greenville Daily Reflector

247 Sports

• ECU AD Jon Gilbert assesses Year 1 of the Mike Houston era
• Updating ECU’s future football non-conference opponents
• New AAC TV deal provides more money to ECU, but also challenges

ECU fall graduation set for Friday WITN

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Houston, Tulsa Pick Up Wins Wednesday
• American Athletic Conference Volleyball Release – Postseason Week 2

Tampa Bay Times

• If college football had a dating service, Jeff Scott and USF were bound to hook up
• New USF coach Jeff Scott makes ‘united from start to finish’ pitch
• New USF coach Jeff Scott already knows how to beat rival UCF
• Former USF coach Willie Taggart hired at Florida Atlantic

UCF basketball extends win streak with victory over Green Bay Orlando Sentinel

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Temple’s Matt Hennessy reflects on being a Rimington Trophy finalist: ‘It’s hard to fathom’
• Temple’s Jake Forrester isn’t smiling now … and that’s a good thing | Mike Jensen
• Temple 108, St. Joseph’s 61: Statistics, highlights and reaction from the Owls’ dominant win
• Navy linebacker leans on his faith to come to terms with a family tragedy

UConn’s loss to Indiana was disappointing, but it shouldn’t sink the Huskies season Hartford Courant

A look at why SMU and TCU aren’t playing in men’s basketball, with no indication the longstanding rivalry will return Dallas Morning News

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Adam Fuller to leave Memphis and be named Florida State defensive coordinator
• Memphis basketball’s Ryan Boyce enters the transfer portal

Tulsa World

• TU relies on defense to take down Boise State 69-56
• TU football: Philip Montgomery would like to see CFP expand to benefit AAC

Nate Hinton powers UH past UT Arlington Houston Chronicle

Annapolis Capital

• How come Navy’s Malcolm Perry is not in consideration for the Heisman Trophy?
• Army football slips after three straight seasons of success

Understanding the angles: How WSU freshman Tyson Etienne became a sharpshooter  Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Former NC State coach Mark Gottfried responds to the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations Raleigh News and Observer

Source: Shawn Clark to be named App State head coach on Friday Winston Salem Journal

Fayetteville Observer

• Advocates push NCAA schools to ban violent athletes
• NCAA looks other way as athletes punished for sex offenses play on
• Athletes overrepresented in sex cases
• Feds help star athlete hide campus rape charges

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Former Penn State offensive coordinator Ricky Rahne: “I’m absolutely ready” to lead ODU football
• Ricky Rahne’s credentials say he’s ready to rebuild ODU football
• Hokies promote Lechtenberg to running backs coach

Columbia The State

• What Ray Tanner said about change to Muschamp deal, adding Mike Bobo
• With Jeff Scott moving on, Clemson has its replacement for a receivers coach
• South Carolina adds another future series with traditionally strong ACC program
• How much assistant money Gamecocks could be on the hook for into 2021

Citadel’s 2020 football schedule includes six home games, payday at Clemson Charleston Post and Courier

Florida Atlantic looks set to hire ex-FSU coach Willie Taggart as college football carousel spins New York Times