The pads popped a little louder Saturday morning inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. East Carolina closed the second week of fall camp with its first intra-squad scrimmage, a two-and-a-half-hour session that mixed individual work, special teams and nearly 120 snaps of offense-versus-defense football. It was Practice No. 10, and for the first time this preseason the Pirates got … [Read more...]
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VIEW FROM THE EASTPirates waiting to see if veterans could play again
The intriguing possibility that outside linebacker Samuel Dankah, running back Marlon Gunn Jr. and defensive lineman J.D. Lampley could play another season for East Carolina was expounded on Monday by Coach Blake Harrell. The Pirates are monitoring the situation that involves court rulings and the NCAA's response. A judge in Colorado found that players from the Class of 2022 … [Read more...]
CLASS OF 2027 RECRUITING FEATUREVersatile defensive lineman plots course to ECU
Forsyth County in North Carolina doesn't offer tackle football at the middle school level, so when Chosen Hyman showed up for preseason practice at East Forsyth High in 2023, he was a bit of a mystery. "We didn't know anything about him, really,'' East Forsyth head coach Todd Willert said. "So, it was kind of crazy. He was really raw as a freshman. But we could see something … [Read more...]
VIEW FROM THE EASTPirates work on 2026 football foundation
East Carolina opened preseason football camp on Wednesday morning and Blake Harrel was enthusiastic as he entered his third season as head coach since taking over the program on Oct. 20, 2024. "It's an exciting time of year, probably my favorite time of the year," Harrell said. "If you look at the season, the year long, I enjoy all of it and I enjoy being a football … [Read more...]
College SportsNCAA trying to sneak a fast one by women?
A weekend op-ed in the Wall Street Journal raised a warning flag about the so-called "Protect College Sports Act (PCSA)." One-time Stanford tennis All-American Kim Jones is of the opinion the bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing that would neuter Title IX. Jones' editorial argues that the NCAA is promoting the proposed legislation as a fix for problems such as chaos in college … [Read more...]