It was a couple of days before Christmas when Kenwick Thompson found out he was headed for Greenville.
And it was probably about an hour later that Thompson knew he would be spending precious little time in his new hometown, at least for the first month.
When new East Carolina head football coach Scottie Montgomery began piecing together his staff after being hired last Dec. 14, he knew he needed the best people for the long term, but he also knew he needed assistants who could stitch together a vital first recruiting class on an unforgiving deadline.