The chip is back on East Carolina’s shoulder this football season.
Since the final play of the Birmingham Bowl last January, the then 8-5 Pirates have heard a great deal of talk about the star players who graduated and landed on NFL rosters not long thereafter. Not much has been said about the talent still filling the Pirates’ roster.
Those guys have something to prove.
Beginning with a Sept. 5 home tune-up against Towson in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, the newest edition of ECU football hopes it can be a great sum of its many talented parts. If they can win the war of the American Athletic Conference’s East Division, these Pirates will do something no team before them has by playing in the inaugural AAC championship game in December.