As a significant underdog, a powerful ECU FB team is reliving its past FB glory on ESPNU today. Go ECU!

(12-24-2019 02:31 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  As a significant underdog, a powerful ECU FB team is reliving its past FB glory on ESPNU today. Go ECU!

That was a damn good team.

Chris Johnson


Linval Joseph


Dwayne Harris


CJ Wilson


Jay Ross


Matt Dodge


Davon Drew


Willie Smith

Absolute. Animal.

Hope you guys are watching. That was a very good ECU team.

(12-24-2019 02:56 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Absolute. Animal.

I've been to every ECU home game since 83, many road games, and many other games. Chris Johnson is without a doubt the fastest human being I've every seen play the game. Hands down the fastest!!!

ECU joined their first I-A Conf back in 1997 (CUSA) and thru those years and then in AAC (2014 - present), ECU still has just 2 conf titles, 2008 & 2009.

They've had some talented teams during those 23 years...but they've fallen short most years....but maybe this coaching staff can help turn them around.

Another shocking stat: ECU has gone 4 straight seasons without a bowl appearance...which is only matched by their 2002-2005 bowl less streak.

As a Titans fan, loved some CJ 2K.


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(12-25-2019 12:35 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  ECU joined their first I-A Conf back in 1997 (CUSA) and thru those years and then in AAC (2014 - present), ECU still has just 2 conf titles, 2008 & 2009.

They've had some talented teams during those 23 years...but they've fallen short most years....but maybe this coaching staff can help turn them around.

Another shocking stat: ECU has gone 4 straight seasons without a bowl appearance...which is only matched by their 2002-2005 bowl less streak.

Life of a ECU fan. So many could of would of should of years. You can start in 1999 with a team that should have gone undefeated after beating WVU, South Carolina, Duke #9 Miami and crushing NCST only to get tripped up by our nemesis Southern Miss and absolutely crap the bed at UAB in front of 5k fans with a team ranked #17 . 2000 Logan team actually finally beat Southern Miss and then choked at Memphis 17-10 and then did the total ECU thing of a great team losing to UAB 16-13 just one weekend removed from a great win at Louisville 38-35. That team crushed Texas Tech in a bowl game but could not manage to win CUSA.
Holtz lost a game at Rice on a walk off FG set up by a 4th and 10 that ended up going 40 yards that prevented ECU going to CUSA Championship game. We lost at Marshall last game of the year with CUSA East Title on the line. The 2014 AAC melt down season where ECU was the first G5 school to ever be ranked in the playoff poll and ranked as high as #14 that year only to crap the bed at Temple, mismanage Cincinnati game and give up the worst hail mary to UCF after going into victory formation in UCF redzone thinking the game was over. The history of ECU Football is littered with great wins only to turn around lose a game we should have easily won to screw up a season. Heck even the #9 Peach Bowl season should have been undefeated because we should have won the first game of the season at Illinois. Even with the B.S. celebration penalty ECU should have never been behind vs Illinois because the team was just better but did not get it done.

The Football Culture at ECU has always been David vs Goliath where we get pumped up to beat a P5 team especially if they are ranked and then we turn around and lose a Conference game we should win easily. These are 18-22 year old kids so you have to have a coach that can keep them focused for 12 games and that is hard to do which makes UCF back to back undefeated seasons that much more impressive. The 2007 Hawaii Bowl Champs is a classic example. That team beat UNC, lost to #17 VT 17-7 in a game that was winnable, did our normal losing to Southern Miss and had the game at Marshall to win CUSA East. ECU was favored and still lost 26-7. Head scratching you can go to Marshall with a chance to win CUSA East and you do not show up. You end up in Hawaii and you beat a ranked Defending Fiesta Bowl Champ team in Boise St and flat out dominate them the first half. That Boise St team turned right around the next year 12-1 and finish #11.

(12-25-2019 12:35 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  ECU joined their first I-A Conf back in 1997 (CUSA) and thru those years and then in AAC (2014 - present), ECU still has just 2 conf titles, 2008 & 2009.

They've had some talented teams during those 23 years...but they've fallen short most years....but maybe this coaching staff can help turn them around.

Another shocking stat: ECU has gone 4 straight seasons without a bowl appearance...which is only matched by their 2002-2005 bowl less streak.

That’s pretty misleading. ECU has always played football at the highest level. They were independent for 20 years when the 1A-1AA split happened. In that span of 20 years were some ECU’s best teams under coaches like Pat Dye, Bill Lewis, and Steve Logan.

ECU also was notable in CUSA for beating very good teams out of conference then slipping up against a bottom dweller in conference always leaving them just outside the championship game.