Tag: East Carolina

Danny Pigge’s Pigskin Preview:In-State ACC Teams facing Road Foes, with N.C. State at Virginia and Duke at Syracuse/North Carolina home vs. VA Tech

Danny Pigge’s Pigskin Preview, with our College Football Games for October 10, 2020, and brought to us by Danny Pigge and Ameriprise Financial, and you can see them on the right side panel here at the GreensboroSports.com website… Friday Night Final from the Atlantic Coast Conference: Georgia Tech 46, Louisville 27 GA Tech(2-2)/Louisville(1-3) Saturday October… Continue reading Danny Pigge’s Pigskin Preview:In-State ACC Teams facing Road Foes, with N.C. State at Virginia and Duke at Syracuse/North Carolina home vs. VA Tech

Busy Day for Northwest Guilford’s Xavier Simmons:Off season sizzling for Simmons, as the Rising Viking Junior grabs Three College Football Offers

Xavier Simmons, from Northwest Guilford High School, is currently a sophomore for the Vikings, and that would put him in the NWG Class of 2022, and this rising NWG junior, has been receiving quite a bit of college interest in the past week… Simmons is listed at 6’3/210 and plays Middle Linebacker….The kid is big,… Continue reading Busy Day for Northwest Guilford’s Xavier Simmons:Off season sizzling for Simmons, as the Rising Viking Junior grabs Three College Football Offers

We haven’t seen him on the roster yet, but when he does get going, look for James Summers(Page HS) to be WR at ECU

from the News and Observer in Raleigh and we are looking and waiting for James Summers to become a part of the East Carolina football program…. www.newsobserver.com When Pirates coach Ruffin McNeill met James Summers on the East Carolina campus this past winter it was love at first sight. The feeling must have been mutual,… Continue reading We haven’t seen him on the roster yet, but when he does get going, look for James Summers(Page HS) to be WR at ECU

James Summers(Page HS/Hargrave/Hinds CC) signs National Letter of Intent to play football for the East Carolina Pirates(Page Pirate/East Carolina Pirate)

from East Carolina Pirates forum board….. Hinds Community College duel-threat quarterback James Summers has signed his National Letter of Intent to play his college football at East Carolina University. James has spent the past two seasons quarterbacking Hinds Community College, down in Hinds, Mississippi and prior to that he played one year for the Hargrave… Continue reading James Summers(Page HS/Hargrave/Hinds CC) signs National Letter of Intent to play football for the East Carolina Pirates(Page Pirate/East Carolina Pirate)

Well-known former East Carolina coach and player Ed Emory dies

News coming in this morning from WRALSportsFan.com…. (Ed Emory was 74 years old.) Ed Emory’s football coaching record at ECU was (26-29) record in five seasons… Gave East Carolina their first ever AP Top-25 final ranking at No. 20 following an 8-3 season in 1983. Here is the part that I will always remember the… Continue reading Well-known former East Carolina coach and player Ed Emory dies

This may help ECU win the game on Saturday:East Carolina Military Shout Out from Kuwait

East Carolina vs. Appalachian State this Saturday…… This is a super video Shout Out! for the East Carolina Pirates, from the 113th Brigade of the North Carolina National Guard, based out of GREENSBORO, N.C. and currently stationed at Camp AriJan, Kuwait…..Let’s hear it for the GREENSBORO group and you can hear and see them when… Continue reading This may help ECU win the game on Saturday:East Carolina Military Shout Out from Kuwait

Rio Johnson named starting QB for ECU in opener against Appalachian State

Courtesy of East Carolina SID Tom McClellan at ECU, by way of Jim Modlin…… Junior will make first career start against Appalachian State Saturday RIO JOHNSON NAMED STARTING QUARTERBACK FOR ECU OPENER GREENVILLE, N.C. – East Carolina junior Rio Johnson has been tabbed as the Pirates’ starting quarterback according to an announcement made by head… Continue reading Rio Johnson named starting QB for ECU in opener against Appalachian State