Mike Houston has had a variety of experiences in spring practice at East Carolina, ranging from a group that needed a talent upgrade and a culture change in 2019 to no spring ball at all in 2020 to last season's offseason session of promise. What Houston is seeing thus far this season is representative of ECU's improvement to 7-5 overall and 5-3 in the American Athletic … [Read more...]
ECU Recruiting NewsLoaded Pirates still courting running backs
Running back isn't necessarily a position of need as East Carolina turns its focus to recruiting the Class of 2023. But that doesn't mean the Pirates aren't pursuing some prominent rushing prospects to join an already young and talented stable of runners on the current roster. ECU will have the top returning backfield duo in the American Athletic Conference next fall in … [Read more...]
ECU Recruiting NewsECU targets quarterbacks of the future
Barring any major offseason departures, East Carolina should have one of the deepest and most talented quarterback corps in the American Athletic Conference next fall. Fifth-year senior and record setter Holton Ahlers headlines the group of five scholarship quarterbacks currently listed on ECU's 2022 roster. Behind the elder statesman Ahlers are some talented sophomores, … [Read more...]
AAC Football Recruiting NewsTransfer portal reshaping AAC football programs
College football's version of free agency — better known as the NCAA Transfer Portal — has significantly altered the makeup of just about every American Athletic Conference football program during the offseason. AAC teams have been among the most active in the 2022 portal for transfer additions as well as losses. As of February 20thth, the 11 AAC programs had signed or … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTRe’quan Boyette returns to ECU
Re'quan Boyette remembers his first college football game. It also will be the site of his next football game as the new outside receivers coach at East Carolina. Boyette came to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadum as a freshman at Duke on Sept. 3, 2005. That day also marked the first contest for Skip Holtz as coach of the Pirates. It wasn't Boyette's first trip to ECU by any means. He … [Read more...]