In his five years as head coach of East Carolina, Skip Holtz went 38-27 and went to four bowls. He, of course, got a job with USF.
In six years with ECU-- two of them in a tougher conference-- Ruffin McNeill went 42-34 and went to four bowls. This was apparently grounds for the Pirates to fire him, because he didn't live up to the glorious standard set by His Skippiness, or something.
McNeill's ECU teams were a lot of fun and often quite good-- the 2013 edition went 10-3 and clocked in at 54th in S&P.