Senior nights are designed to honor those players whose college careers are coming to an end and to thank them for their contributions to the program over the past four years. That’s only partially what happened at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday. Because while the night clearly belonged to Trevon Brown, Garrett McGhin, Nate Harvey and the other loyal soldiers that have … [Read more...]

Bobby Petrino was fired as Louisville’s football coach on Sunday. While that bit of news doesn’t have a direct connection to East Carolina’s uncertain gridiron situation, it does open up a subject of particular interest to the Pirates as they decide on the direction they’ll go once their fourth straight losing season is officially in the books. Specifically, the effect … [Read more...]

It was painfully obvious from all the empty seats at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday — the announced attendance of just 29,127 was slightly more than half capacity — that a lot of East Carolina fans have given up on their football team. But because of the effort of the players on the field, it was just as clear that not everyone has thrown in the towel on the 2018 season — … [Read more...]

The search for East Carolina’s next athletic director finally began Thursday with the announcement of a 13-member committee whose job it is, in the words of chancellor Cecil Staton, “to bring on board an AD who will lead Pirate athletics into a new era.” This is welcome news and long overdue, considering that the athletic program has been in a virtual state of limbo since … [Read more...]

It’s beginning to look more and more likely that Scottie Montgomery will be back as the football coach at East Carolina again next season. This is neither an endorsement of the job Montgomery has done to date nor an opinion based on the team’s performance in Saturday’s 37-10 loss to undefeated Central Florida, though there were at least a few encouraging aspects to come out … [Read more...]