Ruffin McNeill has plenty of people to keep him humble when times are good and plenty to motivate him when times are tough.
On Sunday night, the tail end of East Carolina’s lone bye week this season, McNeill turned to one of the people who do both for him.
The ECU head coach’s conversation with his father, also a former football coach, helped to put into perspective what true pressure is. Times are most certainly tough at the moment for the 4-6 Pirates, but thanks in part to his dad, McNeill entered the short game week with renewed purpose.