Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates fuel anticipation

ecupirates.com

• Coach Houston’s Weekly Press Conference Quotes
• Pirates add Brown to Women’s Basketball Staff

The East Carolinian

• Football looks to take the Monarchs’ crown
• ECU soccer prepares for possible fifth consecutive shutout
• Volleyball to compete in the Quest for the Crown

WNCT 9

• ECU’s Houston discusses NCSU loss, Old Dominion
• ECU women’s basketball adds Brown to staff

WITN 7

• ECU football regroups after tough loss to N.C. State
• Aramark to make changes for ECU Old Dominion game following long lines and lack of water at season opener

247 Sports

• ECU AD tackles concession, fan experience issues: ‘It infuriates me’
• Houston updates status of OT Bailey Malovic, DT Rick D’Abreu
• NC State Snap Counts 2022: East Carolina
• ECU updates depth chart for Week 2 game against ODU
• What ODU coach Ricky Rahne said about ECU
• Pirates open as double-digit favorites over Monarchs

ECU football: Pirates learn from Saturday loss, look toward ODU Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Road to CFB: East Carolina Football Game Day Sports Illustrated

Chance Bates on first game at ECU: “The atmosphere was crazy” CBS Sports

NC State’s Christopher Dunn offers ECU kicker words of encouragement after Pack’s win Charlotte Observer

Around the American Athletic Conference

Tulane’s Gilliam, Houston’s Meyer Take Home Season’s First American Weekly Cross Country Awards American Athletic Conference

Sports Illustrated

• Weekly AAC Honors: Plumlee and Melville Headline Knights
• AP Top 25 Poll: UCF Knights Move Up Two Spots

Around the AAC: A rough first week for The American The Daily Cougar

 Memphis football RB Rodrigues Clark no longer on team Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tigers offense goes back to work after dreadful 1st half in loss to Mississippi State WREG

Tulane DT Adonis Friloux likely out of the season with knee injury NOLA.com

Practice like you play: Rashee Rice is ready to become SMU’s next great receiver Dallas Morning News

TU bouncing back emotionally, needs to improve running game this week Tulsa World

 Fickell challenges UC Bearcats ahead of home-opener vs. Kennesaw State Cincinnati Enquirer

Luke Fickell challenges Cincinnati Bearcats following season-opening loss at Arkansas USA Today

How Louisville football plans to counter UCF’s up-tempo offense and defense YAHOO!

Analysis: Questions for UCF football entering game vs. Louisville Orlando Sentinel

Houston Chronicle

• After surviving scare, UH looks to clean up before trek to Tech
• Why a broken finger couldn’t keep UH’s Derek Parish out of opener
• In homage to JFK speech, Rice to wear special NASA uniforms

Navy football has positive defensive film review after strong season-opening performance vs. Delaware Annapolis Capital

UNT press conference notebook: DE Tom Trieb made key steps forward in loss to SMU Denton Record-Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State’s Christopher Dunn offers ECU kicker words of encouragement after Pack’s win
• NC State coach Dave Doeren not second-guessing decisions on goal-line offense at ECU
• UNC defense searching for answers after fourth-quarter ‘implosion’ against App State
• N&O’s college football picks for North Carolina schools and Tennessee vs Pittsburgh

No. 18 NC State fixes to flex on Charleston Southern CBS Sports

Winston Salem Journal

• No. 8 Notre Dame looks to finish strong against Marshall
• Coaches reunite when No. 7 Oklahoma hosts Kent State
• No. 2 Georgia promises no letdown vs. Samford
• No. 10 USC puts up new look against pesky Stanford

Columbia The State

• What Vegas Thinks: South Carolina trending as two-score underdog against Arkansas
• Freshman QB Cade Klubnik shines, and creates a lot of buzz, in Clemson football debut
• ‘People just bounce off of him’: USC defense prepares for Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson
• South Carolina receives a vote, Clemson drops a spot in latest AP Top 25

Charleston Post & Courier

• Sapakoff: Clemson’s biggest area of improvement? Team speed.
• 5 Clemson takeaways from win over Georgia Tech, including the QB situation
• Oceanside Collegiate’s Monroe Freeling latest top prospect to head out of state
• Gamecocks get special-teams boost from Spring Valley players against Georgia State

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• ‘You have to find the positives.’ Virginia Tech attempts to move on after disastrous season-opening loss to Old Dominion
• ODU is on a hot streak dating back to last season. How? ‘Plugging away.’
• William & Mary beats FBS opponent for first time since 2009, overcoming Charlotte in Tribe’s season opener

Group of Five power rankings: UAB, Marshall, Coastal rising in Week 2 Saturday Blitz

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• 5 takeaways from Georgia Tech’s loss to No. 4 Clemson
• Kirby Smart rips No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs’ practice performance