Game week is finally here for East Carolina. The long, hot summer unofficially ends with the Labor Day weekend and the first week of the college football season. Pirate fans will head west to Raleigh early Saturday for the season-opening matchup with North Carolina State. Last year the Wolfpack manhandled a broken Pirate football team in that ill-advised make-up game … [Read more...]

East Carolina wrapped up fall camp over the weekend with the team’s second scrimmage of the preseason. Both sides of the ball, the offense and the defense, had their moments to shine in the Saturday scrimmage. It was especially nice to see the defense play so well at times. When you’re playing one another sometimes it’s hard to tell which unit is shining. Is the defense … [Read more...]

It was the East Carolina offense that got all of the accolades on Wednesday, as Mike Houston’s Pirates pushed through their ‘hump day’ workout. The offense shined on a hot, humid morning of practice. "This was the second of four consecutive practices in full pads and it was a competitive one," said Houston after the Wednesday workout. "I'm really excited about the way our … [Read more...]

Monday was another key step as the Pirates roll on toward opening day in Raleigh. The East Carolina football squad put the pads on for the first time. Those pads will stay on now for most of the rest of the month. Practice in pads is much different, especially in the heat. "I thought we continued to make strides today," said first-year coach Mike Houston in his … [Read more...]