Join ECU Athletics & the Pirate Club in Birmingham… Mississippi State coach Mike Leach’s passing hits home for NC State’s Ruffin McNeill; Mike Leach was college football, but The Spirit of The Pirate lives on forever … Jacksonville native Tymir Brown transferring to ECU

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Announce 2023 Lacrosse Schedule
• Join ECU Athletics & the Pirate Club in Birmingham

Mississippi State coach Mike Leach’s passing hits home for NC State’s Ruffin McNeill Miami Herald

Jacksonville native Tymir Brown transferring to ECU  WNCT 9

Pirate Football And Birmingham Bowl Coverage On WITN WITN 7

247 Sports

• PODCAST: ECU bowl talk, recruiting, and more as December chaos picks up
• North Carolina CB transfer Tymir Brown commits to ECU

ECU roundup: Pirates outline bowl activities Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Illinois football adds a pair to its 2023 class in Avery Jones and Collin Dixon St Louis Post-Dispatch

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Cincinnati, Memphis Secure Tuesday Road Wins
• Buzzer-Beater Lifts South Florida Past Northern Iowa
• Tulane’s Jones, Tulsa’s Young Pick Up Women’s Basketball Weekly Honors
• Memphis’ Davis, UCF’s Hendricks Earn Weekly Honors

AAC College Football Bowl Games: Live Stream and TV Channel Info ForTheWin

New Mexico Bowl features high-powered offenses in BYU, SMU CBS Sports

After taking 42-9 halftime lead, Spiders roll to 77-48 win over Knights Richmond

Tampa Bay Times

• Salary, contract details for new USF football coach Alex Golesh
• What’s the NCAA transfer portal window like? ‘Insanity’

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Tigers TE Prieskorn explains return for 2023 season
•  Kendric Davis’ 30 points not enough as No. 4 Alabama downs Memphis

Notebook: Tulane hopes to hand Caleb Williams a wraparound Heisman defeat NOLA.com

Dallas Morning News

• Fresno State DB transfer Cale Sanders Jr. becomes SMU’s eighth portal commitment
• SMU adds seventh transfer portal commitment in former DeSoto, Missouri OL Hyrin White

 UC TE Leonard Taylor opts out of Fenway Bowl, declares for NFL draft Cincinnati Enquirer

While Taylor Hendricks quickly becomes UCF’s go-to player, he makes AAC history Orlando Sentinel

Houston Chronicle

• Houston sophomore Ja’Vier Francis takes another big step
• UH bounces back with big win over N.C. A&T
• Rice football: Bowl trip is worth wait for sixth-year seniors

Annapolis Capital

• Bill Wagner: From Brian Newberry to Brian Bohannon, a list of potential candidates to become Navy football coach | COMMENTARY
• ‘I wasn’t ready for it to be over’: Ken Niumatalolo surprised by dismissal as Navy football coach
• Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo out after 15 seasons

Outside shots starting to fall for Wichita State basketball, as Shockers win again Wichita Eagle

UNT’s fast-moving football coach search concludes with Eric Morris Denton Record Chronicle

As expectations rise, UTSA aims for first bowl victory San Antonio Express News

‘We’ll build this thing from the inside-out’: Trent Dilfer embracing life as UAB football head coach AL.com

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Remembering the unique life of Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach ESPN

Mike Leach was college football, but The Spirit of The Pirate lives on forever FanSided

Washington State Daily Evergreen

• Legacy of Mike Leach
• Legacy of Mike Leach: generous genius

College football transfer portal tracker: Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall to explore transfer after bowl game YAHOO!

Coastal Carolina QB McCall enters NCAA transfer portal Ledger-Enquirer

Source: Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall to visit Auburn this week Sports Illustrated

Coastal Carolina backup quarterback arrested for assault and battery The Comeback

Raleigh News & Observer

• How Dariq Whitehead’s measured return to Duke basketball has impacted the Blue Devils
• UNC basketball empties its bench, Tar Heels pull away from The Citadel in 100-67 win
• NC State basketball flexes its depth in a 92-73 nonconference victory against Furman

Winston Salem Journal

• John Clay: Two architects of Kentucky football’s ‘Air Raid’ era have now died, both too soon
• Mac Engel: Mike Leach showed Texas Tech, and all of football, what is possible with a few passes
• Larry Stone: Mike Leach was brilliant, generous, stubborn — and never boring
• Clemson DE Myles Murphy entering NFL draft

Charleston Post & Courier

• Sapakoff: Captain Obvious thinks Gamecocks goofed on Loggains hire
• North Carolina dominates the boards, Bulldogs in easy win for the Tar Heels
• Citadel grad Maurice Drayton agrees to become Bulldogs’ football coach
• Charleston man feels family, national pride in Morocco’s World Cup run and anthem
• Clemson has rare opt-out for Orange Bowl, another starter sidelined with injury

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• ODU’s top wide receiver says he’s transferring to Virginia Tech
• Preseason trip to Italy, bonding experience help take UVA in new direction after missing last year’s NCAA Tournament