Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Women’s Golf Announces 2022 Fall Schedule ecupirates.com

METTLEN: (ECU to SunBelt?) Hints Suggest SBC Has American In Crosshairs Daily News-Record

ECU women’s golf announces 2022 schedule WNCT 9

Whisenhunt signs officially with San Francisco Giants WITN 7

247 Sports

• ECU’s entire 2023 class – to this point – now rated by 247Sports Composite
• Carson Whisenhunt signs with San Francisco Giants for $1.8 million

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• AAC notebook: Ahlers set for many lasts
• College football: Realignment brings up more questions than answers

East Carolina baseball player shows promise after serious boating injury, NC mom says AOL

Around the American Athletic Conference

AAC commish: Coordinated response needed to stabilize FBS Raleigh News & Observer

American Athletic Conference

• The American Holds 2022 Football Media Day
• Houston Edges Cincinnati as Favorite in 2022 Preseason Media Poll

SB Nation

• AAC commissioner Mike Aresco warns about the consolidation of conferences in college football
• 2022 AAC Media Day Recap and Storylines

YAHOO!

• CFN Preseason All-American Athletic Conference Football Team, Top 30 Players: Preview 2022
• Cincinnati versatile athlete Ryan Montgomery named to watch list for Paul Hornung Award

AAC commissioner: ‘Something important is being lost’ in conference realignment The Tampa Times

Three-star recruit Ross commits to Tigers over Ole Miss, Miss. State Memphis Commercial Appeal

Notebook: Tulane football team out to prove 2021 was an aberration NOLA.com

Tulane tabbed 7th, Houston picked atop preseason AAC football poll Crescent City Sports

SMU lands commitment from 2024 4-star QB prospect Tyler Aronson Dallas Morning News

Throwback Tulsa: Ex-TU star Nancy Lopez wins LPGA golf classic on this day in 1989 Tulsa World

With cameras off, Drayton would ‘probably try to do a backflip’ 247 Sports

Stan Drayton is impressed with Temple’s growth and unfazed by preseason rankings Philadelphia Inquirer

Orlando Sentinel

• AAC commissioner laments realignment, supports break from NCAA governance
• USF’s Jeff Scott impressed with transfer QB Gerry Bohanon

UCF OL Lokahi Pauole Named to Outland Trophy Watchlist Sports Illustrated

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: UCF Knights Picked Third in AAC Preseason Football Poll Space Coast Daily

What UAB’s Bryant Vincent said at 2022 C-USA Football Kickoff AL.com

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• With QBs in spotlight, UNC football begins fall camp with emphasis on position battles
• NC dismisses aiding and abetting DWI charge against former Duke star Paolo Banchero
• UNC, Duke college football schedules changing due to Liberty’s move to Conference USA

Sun Belt Conference enters football season as possibly the strongest it has ever been The Advocate

Winston Salem Journal

• Donavon Greene’s back with Wake Forest football team after missing last season with knee injury
• Will UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten help recruiting? Big Ten players, coaches weigh in.
• Retired football coaches Rod Broadway, Bill Hayes to be honored at North Carolina game next month

Gamecocks kickoff recruiting weekend with 2024 commitment Charleston Post & Courier

Norfolk State is smiling as coach Dawson Odums oversees wholesale changes heading into his second training camp Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Tramel’s ScissorTales: Kirby Smart wants Georgia-Florida moved; OU-Texas has a better idea YAHOO!

‘No Pac-12 school is joining the Big 12:’ Pac-12 commish efforts to save a conference on the brink CBS Sports

Moore: Pac-12 should resist money-grab expansion sweeping college football Austin American-Statesman

Notre Dame preparing for opener against heavyweight Ohio State Chicago Sun Times