It wasn’t a good weekend to be an East Carolina fan. On Friday, the Pirates’ basketball team, filled with promise thanks to an almost complete overhaul of its roster, saw a strong effort turn into a 62-57 loss at Navy thanks to one ill-timed second half scoring drought. It was a hauntingly similar scenario to… [ More… ]

Ever wonder what coaches mean when they say that their teams need to learn how to win? Wonder no more. The East Carolina football team provided a classic example of it Saturday on a night that turned out to be both exhilarating and gut-wrenching. For 51½ glorious minutes, the Pirates took their fans on a… [ More… ]

Sisyphus is one of the most tragic figures in Greek mythology, a former king doomed for eternity to push a large rock up a steep hill only to have it roll back down to the bottom every time it gets tantalizingly close to the top. It’s a fate, it would seem, that is currently shared… [ More… ]

We’ve seen the movie before. Many times, in fact, over the past three seasons. And it doesn’t end well. After 30 minutes of play at Central Florida on Saturday, the East Carolina football team trudged toward its halftime locker room with a 35-6 deficit weighing on its collective shoulders like an overloaded barbell waiting to… [ More… ]

The East Carolina football team has reached the midway point in its 2019 season. While its 3-3 record isn’t exactly what new coach Mike Houston had hoped, it’s still the best the Pirates have been after six games since 2015. Now the task becomes building on that promising start, getting even better over the final… [ More… ]

Reid Herring announced recently that he is entering the NCAA’s transfer portal with plans to leave the program for his final season of college eligibility. It’s a decision that was hardly earth shattering considering that Herring has been beaten out for the East Carolina starting quarterback job by Holton Ahlers in each of the past… [ More… ]

Baby steps. That’s what it takes to build a successful and sustainable college football program from the bottom up. You can’t microwave things, as former East Carolina coach Ruffin McNeill used to say, or try to turn things around with one giant leap with a roster full of graduate transfers. It has to happen organically… [ More… ]