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… ]

Are you a glass half empty kind of person or is your glass half full? How you answer that question will likely shape your perspective on East Carolina’s 19-7 win against William & Mary at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday. Either you came away encouraged by a victory earned primarily through the efforts of a stout… [ More… ]

As was the case with East Carolina’s season opener at N.C. State, Saturday’s 42-10 beatdown at the hands of Navy had an uncomfortably familiar look and feel to it. If it wasn’t already obvious before this weekend, it should be now. Turning the ECU football program around and restoring it to its past glory isn’t… [ More… ]

Mike Houston has spent the nine months since he was hired to rebuild East Carolina’s broken football program preaching values such as mental and physical toughness, perseverance in the face of adversity, character and, most of all, family. They are some of the foundations upon which most winning programs are built. But for all he… [ More… ]