East Carolina Tabs Adler Augustin Head Volleyball Coach…ECU lays out fall return plan with new website, town hall…ECU faculty member makes $1.8 million donation…Transfers added as Pirates progress with plans…AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season …Former Navy football standout Jacob Springer transferring to Ole Miss…Montgomery setting example for COVID-19 precautions as players return to campus…Three SC minor league baseball teams among 15 plaintiffs in coronavirus lawsuit…New York City Marathon Canceled Because of Pandemic…America can’t act like a team, and it might cost us the return of sports

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

East Carolina Tabs Adler Augustin Head Volleyball Coach ecupirates.com

Augustin named new volleyball coach at East Carolina  WNCT 9

WITN 7

• ECU tabs Adler Augustin new head volleyball coach
• ECU lays out fall return plan with new website, town hall
• ECU faculty member makes $1.8 million donation

247 Sports

• ECU Player Outlook: How much better can Jayden Gardner get?
• What makes Oklahoma QBU
• ECU’s entire 2020 class formally added to roster
• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: CB Nigel Knott

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• Roster updated as Pirates progress with plans
• Transfers added as Pirates progress with plans
• ECU names volleyball coach

Around the American Athletic Conference

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Cincinnati Bearcats AD John Cunningham addresses athletics budget, 2020 football season
• AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season

University of Cincinnati takes Marge Schott’s name off its baseball stadium Washington Post

UCF reloading receiving corps with 2021 recruiting class Orlando Sentinel

AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season Memphis Commercial Appeal

SMU commits, targets on Dave Campbell’s offense super teams 247 Sports

Half-full or half-empty? Either way, limiting college football stadiums to 50% capacity is a big blow for athletic departments Dallas Morning News

TU football: Montgomery setting example for COVID-19 precautions as players return to campus Tulsa World

Annapolis Capital

• Navy football notebook: Wide receiver Chance Warren may audition at quarterback
• Former Navy football standout Jacob Springer transferring to Ole Miss

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Fayetteville Observer

• Duke’s Mayo takes sponsor role for Charlotte football games
• South View’s Emery Simmons set for bigger role at UNC

Huntington Herald-Dispatch

• Chuck Landon: WVU officials handled controversy well
• Marshall coaches, AD take pay cuts during pandemic

Columbia The State

• Is one part of USC’s offense ready to be ‘the best’ of Will Muschamp era? He thinks so
• South Carolina has picked up two O-linemen in the past week. Could he be a third?

College football players, long less powerful than coaches, finally have their voices heard Washington Post

This College Football Team Had No Coronavirus Cases at First. Then It Shut Down. New York Times

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Facing revenue shortfall, Georgia Tech implementing furloughs
• Colleges already showing they ‘aren’t up to the task’ of keeping athletes safe

In effort to improve sports teams, University of Delaware pays more than most Delaware Online

Appy State men’s soccer, tennis among college teams cut because of coronavirus pandemic Johnson City Press

UConn will eliminate women’s rowing team, men’s tennis, swimming and diving, cross country programs in budget cuts approved by Board of Trustees Hartford Courant