Join Al Myatt and Kevin Monroe for the Bonesville Pregame Podcast as they look ahead to East Carolina's season-opening matchup tonight with cross-state rival Appalachian State at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte (7:30 p.m., ESPNU). Myatt and Monroe analyze the Pirates and their opponent ahead of kickoff each week. With decades of experience as a sports journalist, Myatt … [Read more...]
Special FeatureGame Day Weather
East Carolina opens its 2021 football season tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte against Appalachian State, The forecast is calling for clear skies and 78 degrees at kickoff with 54 percent humidity and wind out of the north-northeast at six miles per hour. Sunset will be at 7:48 p.m. in the Queen City. The mercury will drop to 70 degrees by game's end … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTOld series has some new aspects
East Carolina is getting ready to play one of its oldest opponents for the first time at a neutral site. The Pirates played at Appalachian State in 1932, the first year that the institution, now known as ECU, had a football team. The Mountaineers won, 21-0 as the Pirates were 0-5 in that maiden season. Appalachian won the first 10 meetings in the series before ECU broke … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EAST‘QB1’ devoted to bringing Pirates back
Holton Ahlers has been taking the first-team snaps at quarterback at East Carolina since the latter part of his freshman season in 2018. As the start of his fourth season in the program approaches, his performance, obviously, will be a key as the Pirates look for better things after six straight losing campaigns. Donnie Kirkpatrick is going into his third season as … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTPirates turn page from preseason camp
As students returned to campus this weekend, the scenery was much the same for those in the East Carolina football program — ample time on the fields at the Cliff Moore Practice Facility, position meetings in the Ward Sports Medicine Building, some lifting in the Murphy Center and a short trip to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday for the second and final scrimmage before lining … [Read more...]