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McNeill was a defensive back for the East Carolina Pirates for four years under then head coach Pat Dye. For three of his years at ECU he was a starter, and for two he served as team captain. In his first year with the Pirates, McNeill helped East Carolina to the 1976 Southern Conference Championship and a berth to the Independence Bowl two ...
The 20th head football coach at East Carolina University, Ruffin McNeill. There have been 22 head coaches for the East Carolina Pirates. East Carolina started organized football with the nickname Teachers, in 1932. [1] The school changed the nickname to the Pirates on February 26, 1934. [2]
With the 2020 college football season only a few months away, Ruffin McNeil has landed a new gig. After spending the past three years at Oklahoma, the 61-year-old coach will be taking his talents ...
McNeill is in the ECU Sports Hall of Fame. “The emotions will be different (Saturday),” he said. “I’ve played on that turf, I coached on that turf. I was 17 when I first played on that thing.
The 2010 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Pirates played their home games in Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium and were led by head coach Ruffin McNeill, a former Pirate football player and former Texas Tech defensive coordinator. He was in his first year as head ...
Finally, Ruffin McNeill made his way off the field and walked up to Holland. The two men had both come home to East Carolina, Holland out of retirement as athletic director, McNeill getting his ...
The 2014 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Ruffin McNeill and played their home games at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. This was East Carolina's first season as part of the American Athletic Conference. They finished the ...
But 1-8 is 1-8, as the Pirates now stand after the narrow 13-10 loss. The fans who stayed to the end were engaged but not enough to fill a stadium expanded, in a burst of optimism, to hold so many ...