East Carolina will open the 2018 season at home against North Carolina A&T, on Sept. 1, at 6 p.m., but the Aggies will not be playing their first game when they travel to Greenville. A&T, coming off a 12-0 season on the Football Championship Subdivision level that included a 21-14 win over Grambling in the Celebration Bowl, will get their follow-up campaign underway … [Read more...]
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The Bradsher BeatPirate Football 2018 by the numbers
In my newspaper days, my coworkers and I were fond of calling out, “Warning: Journalists doing math,” but the truth is numbers do find their way into my stories frequently, especially sports-related numbers. It’s hard to spend much time in sportswriting without having to dust off your middle school math skills from time to time. In journalism school I even took a fascinating … [Read more...]
Football RecruitingWest Charlotte receiver sees ECU as path to NFL
Devontez Walker first talked the talk, then walked the walk when it came to playing wide receiver. Walker had shown promise at defensive back for West Charlotte's junior varsity as a freshman during the 2015 season. But a desire to play receiver prompted Walker to make a request of the coaching staff as his sophomore year approached. “We were heavy on receivers in the … [Read more...]
Insights from Brett: Dave Hart Q&A Part 1Dave Hart travels back to the present
East Carolina fans can be excused if they feel as though they’ve climbed into a shiny DeLorean, revved it up to 88 MPH to generate the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of energy and been transported back to 1995. With the return of Dave Hart as the de facto athletic director and the hiring of Joe Dooley to coach the men’s basketball program, the parallels to that more successful, … [Read more...]
View from the EastAll hoops hands on deck next week
Joe Dooley has been working with the under-18 national team, but will begin to get an idea next week how his developing group of Pirates will shape up for his first season back on the East Carolina sideline. Dooley returned in early April to a program he guided to a 57-52 record from 1995-96 to 1998-99. ECU is coming off a 10-20 season. The Pirates were 4-14 in the … [Read more...]