East Carolina has been through some difficult and unfair situations in the 2020 season. Having to play without quarterback Holton Ahlers in a 27-23 loss to Navy on Oct. 17 due to an apparently false positive COVID-19 test was a significant hindrance. Then there was the succession of calls against the Pirates in what goes down as a 34-30 loss at Tulsa on Oct. 30. The … [Read more...]

Despite the evolution of offenses and defenses over the years, football still comes down to blocking and tackling. As East Carolina heads to No. 7 Cincinnati for a Friday night kickoff at 7:30 p.m., the Pirates will have to do a much better job in the trenches than in a 38-21 home loss to Tulane last week. There's no sugar coating the fact that ECU was limited to 35 yards … [Read more...]

There were several things to take away from East Carolina's unofficial 30-27 win at Tulsa last Friday night. The first, of course, was the inaccuracy of the replay reviews, which missed a lost fumble by the Golden Hurricane with 1:52 remaining that would have given the Pirates the ball with an opportunity to run out the clock. The American Athletic Conference owned up to … [Read more...]