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East Carolina University chancellor announces resignation

March 18, 2019 North State Journal Staff

GREENVILLE — The chancellor of East Carolina University announced plans Monday to resign after about three years into the job, indicating that his departure wasn’t entirely his choice but declining to elaborate. The University of […]

ECU hires Houston as football coach, Gilbert as AD

December 3, 2018 Brett Friedlander

It took nine months for East Carolina to fill the opening it had for a permanent athletic director. Once the Pirates settled on Southern Mississippi’s Jon Gilbert for the job, it took him less than […]

NC State, ECU schedule possible makeup football game

October 2, 2018 Brett Friedlander

NC State will be playing a football game on December 1. Where and against whom still isn’t certain. While coach Dave Doeren’s Wolfpack would prefer to take on a team from the Coastal Division in […]

Joe Dooley officially returns as ECU basketball coach

April 4, 2018 Brett Friedlander

For the second time in his career, Joe Dooley has been hired as East Carolina’s basketball coach. Nineteen years after ending his first four-year tenure with the Pirates and after five straight 20-plus win seasons […]

ECU turns to former AD Hart for leadership through athletic transition

March 15, 2018 Brett Friedlander

Dave Hart, who was East Carolina’s athletic director from 1987-95, has been hired by the school to help with the administrative transition brought about by the abrupt departure of athletic director Jeff Compher. Hart, 67, […]