Once you get beyond the unfortunate reality that the changes to college basketball and the enforcement process the NCAA approved on Wednesday don’t actually address the underlying problems with the sport, there’s actually a lot to like.
East Carolina allowed 541.7 yards and 45.1 points a game to rank 129th out of 129 Division I schools. In the season finale of a second straight 3-9 record, Memphis rolled up a 70-13 embarrassment. Three other teams scored 60-plus (Virginia Tech, USF and UCF) and two more 50-plus (West Virginia and Houston).
Reid Herring, the 6-foot-3, 197-pound redshirt sophomore has maintained his grasp on the starting quartrback job at East Carolina as the Pirates opened practice this weekend for their season opener against N.C. A&T on Sept. 1 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
East Carolina, beginning its third football season under coach Scottie Montgomery, has been picked to finish sixth in the East Division of the American Athletic Conference in 2018, it was announced July 24, 2018.
East Carolina football coach Scottie Montgomery discusses the challenges of a 6-18 record in his first two seasons, recruiting the 2018 season before appearing at the annual Pigskin Preview in Cary on July 16, 2018.
East Carolina football coach Scottie Montgomery discusses the challenges of a 6-18 record in his first two seasons, recruiting the 2018 season before appearing at the annual Pigskin Preview in Cary on July 16, 2018.
