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East Carolina football coach Mike Houston spoke with the news media via Zoom on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. The Pirates will be boarding a plane today for a trip to Tulsa in preparation for an ESPN2 Friday night primetime matchup with the Golden Hurricane at Chapman Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

 

East Carolina football defensive coordinator Blake Harrell and offensive coordinator Donnie Kirkpatrick spoke with the news media via Zoom on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Coming off a bye week, the Pirates are preparing for an ESPN2 Friday night primetime matchup with American Athletic Conference rival Tulsa at Chapman Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

 

East Carolina football coach Mike Houston spoke with the news media via Zoom in his weekly press conference on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Coming off a bye week, the Pirates are preparing for an ESPN2 Friday night primetime matchup with American Athletic Conference rival Tulsa at Chapman Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

 

East Carolina football coach Mike Houston spoke with the news media via Zoom in his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. In the midst of a bye week and coming off an American Athletic Conference loss to Navy, the Pirates have turned their focus to an ESPN2 primetime matchup with AAC rival Tulsa at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 at Chapman Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

 

East Carolina coach Mike Houston spoke with reporters via Zoom after the Pirates were defeated by American Athletic Conference foe Navy on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

MIKE HOUSTON:

East Carolina freshman running back Rahjai Harris spoke with reporters via Zoom after the Pirates were defeated by American Athletic Conference foe Navy on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

RAHJAI HARRIS:

East Carolina graduate student center Fernando Frye spoke with reporters via Zoom after the Pirates were defeated by American Athletic Conference foe Navy on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

FERNANDO FRYE:

East Carolina junior inside linebacker Xavier Smith spoke with reporters via Zoom after the Pirates were defeated by American Athletic Conference foe Navy on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Click media player below (AUDIO ONLY).

XAVIER SMITH:

Join Al Myatt and Kevin Monroe for the Bonesville Pregame Podcast as East Carolina prepares for a noon Saturday kickoff against American Athletic Conference rival Navy at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. ESPN has upgraded the game for telecast on ESPN2 instead of ESPN+.

Myatt and Monroe analyze the Pirates and their opponent ahead of kickoff each week. With decades of experience as a sports journalist, Myatt has been an anchor columnist for Bonesville since the site’s founding in 2001. Monroe, color analyst for the Pirate IMG Sports Network and a former ECU player, is contributing to Bonesville for the 13th straight year.

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East Carolina football coach Mike Houston spoke with the news media via Zoom in a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, as the Pirates continued to prepare for a home matchup with American Athletic Conference rival Navy. The second-year coach expressed his pleasure that slightly relaxed pandemic restrictions will permit about 3,500 fans to attend the game in 50,000-seat Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Only 350 fans invited by players were allowed to attend the home opener with Central Florida on Sept. 26.

Houston noted that all players tested on Wednesday for COVID-19 received a negative result. He added that both the Pirates and the Midshipmen will undergo another round of rapid-response testing on Friday before ECU and Navy medical staffers and league officials make a final decision on allowing the game to go ahead as scheduled at noon on Saturday.

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