The new East Carolina University men’s basketball head coach Joe Dooley addressed the public during his introductory press conference Thursday inside the Murphy Center, wasting no time making his intentions for the program clear.
“I think the thing we need to do is, we need to make basketball important here at East Carolina,” Dooley said. “I think at times there have been some periods where we’ve been good. I think we need to find a way to do that consistently, and we will.”
Dooley was previously the head coach at ECU from 1995-99. Dooley expressed gratitude for the many coaches that he coached alongside as an assistant during his coaching career, and credited them for him changing and growing as a coach.