GREENVILLE, N.C. — Despite facing an FCS opponent, this week's season-opening game against Towson could answer questions about the team.
East Carolina will run through the purple haze at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday to take on the Towson Tigers of the FCS and kick off the upcoming season. The game will mark the sixth opener in the Ruffin McNeill era but the lure of the moment has yet to change. “I’m as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a rocking chair store,” McNeill said Monday, surely with the vision of running out of the tunnel on his mind.