Robert Prunty

ECU graduate Blackwell named Pirates’ new defensive coordinator

December 7, 2017 Brett Friedlander

East Carolina football coach Scottie Montgomery took the first step toward improving a defense that ranked dead last in the FBS this season by hiring David Blackwell as the Pirates’ defensive coordinator. An ECU graduate […]

Pirates defense still looking for answers

October 18, 2017 Brett Friedlander

Central Florida wide receiver Dredrick Snelson boasted before last week’s game against East Carolina that his team would score 70 points against the Pirates. It wasn’t all that much of a stretch, considering that Snelson’s […]

Something’s got to give when ECU’s irresistible object meets Temple’s immovable force

October 6, 2017 Brett Friedlander

You’ve heard all about the irresistible force and the immovable object. Well, the opposite of that will be in play Saturday when East Carolina hosts Temple at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The Pirates come into the game […]

New defensive coordinator, same old story for foundering Pirates

September 16, 2017 Brett Friedlander

GREENVILLE — It’s going to take more than a new coordinator to fix East Carolina’s broken defense. That is, assuming it’s fixable at all. After a promising start in which they gave up field goals […]

Robert Prunty

ECU graduate Blackwell named Pirates’ new defensive coordinator

Pirates defense still looking for answers

Something’s got to give when ECU’s irresistible object meets Temple’s immovable force

New defensive coordinator, same old story for foundering Pirates

Ferguson is the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to head to the legislature
ECBI’s Ferguson tapped to fill remainder of NCGA term for late Clampitt

Ferguson is the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to head to the legislature