Thank you for a wonderful article that shows a multidimensional athlete.

Very well said . Hard facts don’t lie

I have to admit that the new addition turned out better than I expected. It creates a great visual for the team and the fans.

From your experience, which social medium reaches the most people? Which ones will you concentrate on the most before and after our football season begins?

Proud of the USWST!

Hopefully the ECU women's soccer team will represent the University better than the USWST represented our country!

83 million devided by 12 is 6.9 million, not 5 million.

Good article, Al. Thanks.

Pretty sure it’s JULY 4, not June 4. Lol

There was just one and it's been fixed. Good catch ... AAC and ACC easy to get mixed up when both are mentioned in the same column.

You've listed the AAC as the ACC a couple of times on here in this article.

Great Article! Love seeing Pirates doing well and doing it the right way.

Excellent article and I am so proud of my nephew I know he will be very successful at ECU. Good luck Walt we will be behind you all the way. The Stribling family of Mississippi

As an avid college ball guy, it was surprising ECU was not a national seed and had to go play on that early Friday game. We would have been @ Louisville for a Saturday game one but could not make it for the early Friday start. Great effort by the Pirates for 2019 and look forward to 2020. #23 will be well represented by Michigan and so will ECU.

Steve, you all played well and the rain is what caused the loser bracket to have to play back to back DH to win that regional. What Coach Godwin was speaking to is a different issue. ECU met all the traditional metrics to be a top Eight National Seed but was snubbed for some Power Five Hijinks. GA. Tech (ACC) moving to a #3 National Seed was the giveaway to the whole thing. They were over-seeded. That moved up some other Power Five Schools and bumped ECU and also eventually resulted in UNC (ACC) playing at home in the Super Regional. This benefited the ACC, but didn't work out when Auburn spoiled the NCAA effort, but then again the SEC is the most powerful of the Power Five with their greater than $1 billion endowment. Five Big Ten teams getting in showed more Power Five fingerprints. TCU with losing conference record getting in. I could go on. Louisville (ACC) played great but with an extra day or so the ECU players could have been rested and the scouting report perhaps more fully developed for Louisville.. The Power Five (ACC, SEC, Big Ten. Pac 12 and Big 12) own the NCAA and appear to dictate many decisions although that decision-making process in baseball is less than transparent. .