Jeff Blake never did it. Marcus Crandell and David Garrard never did it. Shane Carden also never did it. The ‘it’ was to throw for over 500 yards in a game at East Carolina. Pirate sophomore Holton Ahlers did ‘it’ Saturday night in ECU's 46-43 loss to No. 17 Cincinnati. Ahlers would have given back all of those yards to get a win against the nationally-ranked … [Read more...]

East Carolina fans filtered into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for Homecoming looking for their team to continue to build on the squad’s strong second half at Central Florida the week before. The day got off to the best of starts. Tyler Snead caught the opening kickoff on his goal line. He took his time to find a seam and then burst through the opening he found. Snead went 100 yards … [Read more...]

Pirate fans got a glimpse of the future in the second half of Saturday night’s 41-28 loss at Central Florida. The first half was all too familiar to the East Carolina faithful, as the Knights bolted out to a 35-6 lead. Absolutely nothing was going right. The Pirates could have easily folded their hand and limped home with a lopsided loss. This team is different under Mike … [Read more...]

East Carolina will open the basketball season in search of respect from the rest of the American Athletic Conference. Coach Joe Dooley’s Pirates were picked 11th of 12 teams in the American Preseason Coaches' Poll on Monday. Dooley and sophomore forward Jayden Gardner represented ECU at the league’s annual Media Day in Philadelphia. Memphis and Houston were the picks … [Read more...]

East Carolina enters the team’s bye week with a 3-3 record after six games. For a program that has only won three games in each of the last three seasons the improvement is most evident. Still, there is a long way to go. Thursday night’s loss to Temple was a great example of how far the program still has to go. “There will be a day where we win those games,” said Pirate … [Read more...]