The chance to join the college football program that has produced the two top pass-catching receivers in Football Bowl Subdivision history was too good to pass up for Andre Pegues. A big-play receiver from Hoke County High School in Raeford, Pegues decided on June 7 to follow in the footsteps of ECU greats Justin Hardy (387 career catches) and Zay Jones (399) by making a … [Read more...]
ECU Football & Basketball Recruiting
Basketball RecruitingHokies transfer shores up frontcourt
Seth LeDay has set his sights on completing his college eligibility at East Carolina after announcing his departure last month from Virginia Tech. The 6-7, 200-pound forward, the brother of recently-graduated Hokies star Zach LeDay, could potentially have an early impact for ECU, which lost two frontcourt players with the graduation of Andre Washington and the transfer of … [Read more...]
Football RecruitingPegues plots course to ECU
Raeford (NC) Hoke County High School star Andre Pegues is the first pass catcher to chart a heading to hook up with heralded quarterback Holton Ahlers in East Carolina's recruiting class of 2018. Pegues committed to ECU after returning home from an on-campus visit last weekend. He is the sixth player to join the crop of future Pirates. An athletic, 6-3, 200-pounder, … [Read more...]
View from the EastSirk at work at ECU
If and when Duke transfer quarterback Thomas Sirk takes his first snap at East Carolina in 2017, it will be the 1,000th of his college career. The milestone would have taken place for the Blue Devils last year but Sirk sustained a ruptured left Achilles tendon and sat out the season. Sirk missed 2013 at Duke after tearing his right Achilles. Sirk becomes the first … [Read more...]
Football RecruitingPedigree among Stringer’s credentials
Gerard Stringer has always had a strong role model when it comes to football. And by taking advantage of that gridiron connection, Stringer played himself into an opportunity at the major college level. The outside linebacker from Suffolk, VA, took an unofficial visit to East Carolina last weekend with his mother and came away with a scholarship offer from the Pirates. Less … [Read more...]