September is shaping up to be a fruitful month in more ways than one for the East Carolina football program. Not only have the Pirates notched a pair of impressive victories to start the season, they are also adding notable successes on the recruiting front. Columbia (SC) Ridge View High School star Latheron Rogers-Anderson has mapped out a path to play college football for … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting Report: Pirates pluck a peach of a defensive back
The state of Georgia has already proven to be a fertile recruiting ground for East Carolina and first-year head coach Scottie Montgomery. Montgomery signed four players from the Peach State in his first recruiting class last February and has another trio verbally committed to the Class of 2017. The latest Georgia product to join the Pirates is a versatile defensive back who … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting Report: High Point Central spawns another defensive end for ECU
Veteran High Point Central High School coach Wayne Jones sent East Carolina a defensive end in 2011 who would end up starting 16 games and appearing in 37 overall. The player, Johnathon White, had been a three-time All-Piedmont Triad 4-A Conference pick performing for Jones. After a redshirt season as a true freshman at ECU, White recorded 95 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting Report: Versatile Pinnix on track for LB at ECU
Jeff Snuffer has heard it often in a lengthy coaching career at Western Alamance High School in Elon College. A father comes up and starts telling Snuffer that he has a young son whose going to be a good player. The situation is repeated often, but usually the athlete doesn't live up to the father's hype. That wasn't true in the case of Darius Pinnix Jr. His father, … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting Report: Cleveland County ties still producing
Scottie Montgomery may or may not be a fan of the “Wizard of Oz,'' but the first-year East Carolina coach certainly believes in one of the famous lines from that classic movie: "There's no place like home." Montgomery secured the first verbal commitment of his ECU tenure last January from linebacker Aaron Ramseur, who played at Crest High School in North Carolina's Cleveland … [Read more...]