Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

The East Carolinian

• AAC leaves college football untouched
• Coach Houston recaps football training camp’s first week
• Coach Weaver readies for 2020 season

247 Sports

• Each snap a learning experience for Mason Garcia
• Position change suiting Jireh Wilson’s skill-set well
• What Mike Houston said after ECU’s first preseason scrimmage

Jaguars see Gardner Minshew as a lot more than a quirky QB ESPN

Around the American Athletic Conference

Dallas Morning News

• ‘We should be in that room’: AAC commish Mike Aresco wants his conference heard as Power-5 decides fate of college football
• Aresco believes a football season can be played in 2020.
• Pressure is mounting for Big 12, SEC as college football’s 2020 season becomes increasingly unlikely

As season outlook grows bleak, USF veterans say they want to play this fall Tampa Bay Times

UCF football to play Georgia Tech, won’t face UNC during 2020 season Orlando Sentinel

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Memphis recruit ‘has only scratched 40% of his potential’
• Memphis football: Day 3 of fall camp
• Memphis focused on building depth, not ‘outside noise’

NOLA.com

• Tulane adds South Alabama, Southern Miss to 2020 football schedule, replacing Northwestern, Mississippi State
• Walker: From testing to scheduling, Tulane football doing all it can to return to normalcy

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley was right on 2020 season, and now we have to adjust USA Today

Players speak up as officials debate playing college football  Atlanta Journal Constitution

The Associated Press

• Players unite in push to save college season, create union
• As college leaders meet, football players push to play
• The Latest: Michigan State LB and OL opt out of season
• Pac-12 player group ‘disappointed’ after commissioner call

Five Wake Forest golfers will be in the field for this week’s U.S. Amateur Winston Salem Journal

Wolfpack Football 2020: Top Three Position Groups Sports Illustrated

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Justin Fuente prepares Hokies for start of season while missing starting defensive end and implementing pandemic protocols
• Column: Why are pay-to-play programs and club sports allowed to compete and the VHSL waits? It’s complicated.

Virginia football adds a pair of JMU graduate transfers for 2020 season WTKR

Players to UConn Coach: ‘There’s No Way That We Can Play’ New York Times

Huntington Herald-Dispatch

• Holliday shows support for players who opt-out due to COVID-19
• Former Herd DT Whyce passes away

Charleston Post Courier

• Trevor Lawrence, other Clemson football players: ‘We want to play’
• South Carolina probing racial allegations against Gamecocks football coach Mike Bobo

Columbia The State

• ‘We want to play:’ Clemson QB Lawrence leads charge to save college football season
• The lingering question of where to play one of South Carolina’s most talented defenders