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Spring football underway
If there’s a central theme to college football spring practice in North Carolina this year, it’s “New.” That’s new as in the four first-year coaches that will spend the next few weeks getting to know […]
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Look Ahead — 2019 Comeback of the Year: Stars aligned for an East Carolina football revival
There’s a reason East Carolina moved so quickly to fire football coach Scottie Montgomery once it was announced that Mike Houston was about to be hired at Charlotte. There’s also a reason why Houston decided […]
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ECU’s bad week comes to predictable end with rout at State
A bad week came to a predictable end for the East Carolina football team at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. Playing just two days after coach Scottie Montgomery was fired, on a dreary afternoon in a […]
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Record-setting Wolfpack has some fun at ECU’s expense
RALEIGH — With just under 12 minutes remaining Saturday, senior center Garrett Bradbury lined up in the NC State backfield, took a handoff and dove into the end zone for his first career touchdown. He […]
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ECU announces firing of football coach Scottie Montgomery
East Carolina didn’t wait until after its final game of its season to part ways with football coach Scottie Montgomery. Chancellor Cecil Staton announced the move Thursday after consultation with special advisor Dave Hart and […]
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ECU breakdowns lead to 56-6 thumping at Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bearcats surpassed their win total from the last two years combined and were in the American Athletic Conference race right to the end. By any measure, their young roster surpassed […]
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Freshman Ahlers throws, runs ECU past UConn
GREENVILLE (AP) — Holton Ahlers threw four touchdown passes and ran for another score on Saturday night as East Carolina scored the final 41 points to beat UConn 55-21. Ahlers completed 22 of 31 passes […]
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ECU comeback bid falls short at Tulane
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Darnell Mooney caught six passes for 217 yards and two touchdowns to help Tulane hold off East Carolina 24-18 for its third straight victory on Saturday. Tulane (5-5, 4-2), which had […]
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Gut-check time for ECU, Montgomery
GREENVILLE — Scottie Montgomery is a college coach, not a college professor. But it doesn’t take an advanced degree in mathematics to figure out what his East Carolina football team needs to do in order […]
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ECU improved, but still not enough to beat Memphis
GREENVILLE — The East Carolina football team was 39 points better against Memphis on Saturday than it was the last time the American Athletic Conference rivals met 11 months ago. The problem is, it still […]