ECU's season ends at TCU East Carolina was scheduled to play Memphis on Thursday, March 12, at 10 p.m. in the first round of the American Athletic Conference basketball tournament at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The game, the tournament and the remainder of the college season were canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. "Unusual," said ECU coach Joe Dooley. … [Read more...]
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Football Recruiting
Timely recruiting helped Pirates land Wright
Pre-existing relationships have become even more important in the pandemic world of college football recruiting in which virtual campus tours and Zoom interviews have become the norm. The ability of Mike Houston’s East Carolina staff to establish a solid pre-pandemic relationship at Lakewood High School in Sumter, SC, wound up earning the Pirates their second verbal … [Read more...]
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COVID-19 opens door to FBS for Jason Shuford
From a negative came a positive for Jason Shuford and East Carolina’s football program. Shuford, a defensive lineman from Statesville (NC) High School, had settled on continuing his football career at national junior college powerhouse Independence Community College in Kansas after falling just shy of NCAA academic requirements that would have earned him a scholarship to a … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting
ECU secondary secures Bama grad transfer Knott
Tim Shramek still considers it one of the best high school football games he’s witnessed. And that’s saying a lot for a guy who’s been a prep coach in Mississippi for almost 30 years, including the past nine as the head man at Germantown High in Madison. Shramek’s Germantown squad was facing off against Oxford in the state 5-A semifinals on November 20, 2015, in Oxford. The … [Read more...]
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Would 2020 have been the year?
Pirate Nation and the college baseball world will never know how good East Carolina might have been in 2020 before the response to the coronavirus pandemic caused the remainder of the season to be canceled. "We had a really good start to the season," said Pirates coach Cliff Godwin. "We were 13-4 with a team that a lot of people probably didn't know outside of the program … [Read more...]