Mike Houston: “Obviously, it’s not what any of us wanted for the way we ended the season. It’s not how we want to go out and represent East Carolina University.” With that, year one of the Mike Houston coaching era at East Carolina came to a close. This first year ended on a sour note, a 49-24 loss to a Tulsa Golden Hurricane team that came to Greenville with very little … [Read more...]

Four wins in a season doesn’t sound like that much. Five wins isn’t exactly a dream season either. After three straight 3-9 campaigns at East Carolina, that fourth win was a welcome sight for this program under first-year coach Mike Houston. ECU got win number four with a 31-24 win over Connecticut in East Hartford on Saturday afternoon. It certainly wasn’t a thing of … [Read more...]

East Carolina Coach Joe Dooley would have liked nothing more than to have come into this second stint in Greenville and won right away. That didn’t happen last year during a 10-21 campaign highlighted by the upset win over Cincinnati. This year, Dooley’s Pirates are off to a 1-3 start after falling to a big, experienced Liberty team at home on Saturday afternoon. After … [Read more...]

Last week Pirate quarterback Holton Ahlers became the first East Carolina player in history to throw for over 500 yards in a game. This past week at Southern Methodist he came within two yards of duplicating the feat. One of Yogi Berra’s greatest quotes was thinking something was ‘deja vu all over again.’ Ahlers performance was just that. He threw for 498 yards on a … [Read more...]