With the addition of three February signees, including a former four-star prospect who once committed to Florida, Mike Houston added 21 new players to the ECU football roster in his abbreviated first recruiting cycle as the Pirates’ coach. It’s a class that ranks fifth in the 12-team American Athletic Conference according to 247Sports.com, ahead of league heavyweights South … [Read more...]
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The Bradsher Beat on Football Recruiting
Pirates hit final targets on signing day
It’s fun to take a puzzle out of the box and start assembling it, but it’s exhilarating when you fit in the final few pieces. The new East Carolina football staff, celebrating National Recruiting Day with hundreds of Pirate fans at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Wednesday, got to enjoy that feeling of standing back and admiring their finished product. At the 2019 Signing Day … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting
Prized recruit Lewis goes on the offensive
One of the surprises emerging from the early signing period in December for East Carolina involved the labeling of local product Jeremy Lewis as a tight end. Sure, Lewis had been a prominent pass catcher at South Central High School just a few miles from the ECU campus in Winterville. But the 6-foot-3, 215-pounder had been recruited primarily as a defensive end by the … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting
New staff held its ground in early signing effort
Mike Houston had very little time to make up ground recruiting after becoming East Carolina's head coach just 16 days before college football's early signing period for the Class of 2019. But with an aggressive approach that had Houston and his staff traveling from Florida to Pennsylvania for face-to-face meetings with prospects, the Pirates didn't lose any ground … [Read more...]
Football Recruiting
Pirates land coveted Shrine Bowler Mauney
A Big Ten Conference-caliber talent became the first new prospect added to East Carolina's football recruiting Class of 2019 by new head coach Mike Houston earlier this week. Demetrius Mauney, an in-state prospect from East Rutherford High School in Forest City, was originally the 11th player to join the 2019 class of on-the-rise Big Ten member Purdue back in June. But … [Read more...]