Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

VIEW FROM THE EAST
Pirates ready for preseason camp Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Foursome Of Golfers Earn GCAA Academic Honors
• Baseball Earns Sixth ABCA Academic Award
• AAC WBB Announces Schedule Pairings
• Bridges Earns Academic All-America Honors
• Snead Named To Paul Hornung Watch List
• The American Announces MBB Opponent Assignments
• Ahlers Chosen To Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
• ECU Earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award

Rivals.com

• Ahlers and Snead On Wuerffel and Hornung Watch Lists
• East Carolina Punter Jonn Young Named to Ray Guy Watch List

247 Sports

• Five second-year ECU players who could see a bigger role this season
• ECU 2021 Opponent Preview: Houston
• AAC updates testing protocol for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated
• Countdown to Kickoff: No. 34 Myles Berry
• Countdown to Kickoff: No. 35 Dre Terry
• Jonn Young named to Ray Guy Award Watch List
• ECU to open Myrtle Beach Invitational against Oklahoma

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• New energy, new names after ECU’s Gardner-Monk Era
• ECU ROUNDUP: Ahlers, Snead named to watch lists

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Houston’s Grimes Selected No. 25 Overall in 2021 NBA Draft
• East Carolina’s Bridges Named CoSIDA Academic All-American
• South Florida Softball’s Corrick Tabbed To CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
• American Athletic Conference Announces 2021-22 Women’s Basketball Schedule Pairings
• American Athletic Conference Releases 2021-22 Men’s Basketball Schedule Pairings
• Football Media Days to be Held Virtually August 3-4; Live Coverage on ESPN+

Cincinnati Enquirer

•  Cincinnati’s Gardner, Sanders named to Nagurski Trophy watch list
• Conference realignment: What is the future of the Cincinnati Bearcats?
•  UC cornerbacks Gardner, Bryant named to Jim Thorpe Award watch list

Tampa Bay Times

• As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football
• USF players capitalize on NIL law with special teams camp

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF coach Gus Malzahn talks conference realignment, fall camp and scheduling Florida
• UCF fans should applaud AAC’s Aresco for trying to ruin Big 12 | Commentary

Building momentum: Tulane’s early football recruiting class loaded with 3-star prospects NOLA.com

Dallas Morning News

• SMU, DeSoto product Feron Hunt among multiple undrafted free agents signed by Mavericks
• College football mock realignment: DMN columnists, writers create four 16-team mega conferences

While conference realignment swirls, let’s make college football about the football again | Giannotto Memphis Commercial Appeal

Thrive Academy hires former Donaldsonville, Tulane standout Devon Breaux as ihead football coach The Advocate

Guerin Emig: ESPN and American Athletic Conference enter realignment craziness and, well, maybe it isn’t so crazy Tulsa World

UH’s DeJon Jarreau to sign with Miami Heat Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Cary’s Claire Curzan had one last shot at an Olympic medal. Here’s how she did
• Randolph Ross, a Garner native and NC A&T track star, gets his shot on the Olympic stage

Winston Salem Journal

• ‘We all feel disrespected.’ WSSU selected ninth overall in CIAA in preseason coaches poll and fourth in Southern Division.
• Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says ESPN trying to break up Big 12
• WSSU to play in new Chris Paul HBCU Tip-Off tournament at Naismith Hall of Fame

The Associated Press

• SEC welcomes Texas, Oklahoma after boards accept invitations
• SEC invites Oklahoma and Texas to join conference — in 2025
• The Southeastern Conference has voted to invite Texas and Oklahoma to join the league, effective July 1, 2025
• Huskers open practice out to end streak of 4 losing seasons
• AP Top 25 Podcast: Big Ten preview and realignment is back
• Big 12 accuses ESPN of trying to ‘destabilize’ conference

EDITORIAL: College athletics a tsunami of change for BU, Big 12 Waco Tribune

Houston Chronicle

• Texas looking out for No. 1 in move to SEC
• Joining SEC ‘just means more’ than football for newcomers

The Oklahoman

•  Tramel: How will OU fare in the SEC? The playoff plan will matter
• Carlson: OU fans are all in on moving to SEC — except for this one thing
•  Tramel: Will OU and Texas be lame ducks long in the Big 12?

In new playoff landscape, conferences should think smaller Saturday Blitz

College football realignment: What should CU Buffs, CSU Rams do now? Denver Post

Steven M. Sipple: If college football’s muck gets to be too much for you, there’s always Netflix Lincoln Star-Journal

Sports column: SEC expansion will leave lots of unintended casualties The Vicksburg Post