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Five-Step Drop: East Carolina Coach Ruffin McNeill Recovering From Surgery

FanHouse's college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day. 1. East Carolina coach Ruffin McNeill is recovering from weight loss surgery and wants us all to know he's doing fine. "I am pleased to announce I am successfully in...

Maryland vs. East Carolina: Military Bowl

The Maryland Terrapins (8-4) will take on the East Carolina Pirates (6-6) in the Military Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. The game will air on ESPN at 2:30 p.m. ET Wednesday. Maryland comes in under a cloud of coaching controversy. Ralph Friedgen has led the program to seven bowl trips in the past 10 seasons. The...

Non-AQ Midseason Report: Hot Teams, Not Teams and Hot Seats

We're halfway through the college football season and the teams from the non-automatic qualifying conferences are once again making their presence felt nationally. Five non-AQ teams are ranked in the Top 25, including Boise State, which has ascended to No. 3, its highest regular season ranking ever. TCU is right behind at...

McMurphy's Law: Let's Grade How the New Faces Did in Their New Places

Last weekend marked the debut of 23 coaches in their first games at new schools. For some, it was their first game as a head coach. For others, it was only their first game at a new location. It typically takes two or three years for a new coach to install his schemes and recruit his own players and realistically judge...

Ruffin McNeill Relishes Opportunity to Return Home and Coach at East Carolina

GREENVILLE, N.C. -- Ruffin McNeill hurriedly taps a text message on his cell phone as he sits in his office next to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on the campus of East Carolina University. A steamy August morning practice has ended and meetings are ahead. It's a happily busy time for McNeill. He is doing what he has done for each...

Ruffin McNeill News From the Web

05/06/12 Clark: Stupid is as stupid does with some pet owners Source: The Kinston Free Press - Kinston NC Last week, East Carolina football player Montese Overton and his girlfriend Nicole Angelic Phillips were charged with misdemeanor counts of animal abandonment and cruelty.
05/04/12 ECU linebacker suspended after arrest Source: The Kinston Free Press - Kinston NC East Carolina linebacker Montese Overton has been suspended indefinitely by head coach Ruffin McNeill in the wake of Overton's arrest this week for animal cruelty.
05/01/12 McNeil visits Wilmington to rally Pirate Family' Source: Star-News - Wilmington NC
East Carolina University athletic director Terry Holland and head football coach Ruffin McNeill paused before walking up the ramp to the USS North Carolina Battleship.

Background on Ruffin McNeill

Ruffin McNeill (born October 9, 1958) is the head football coach for the East Carolina Pirates. Before being named head coach, McNeill served the Texas Tech Red Raiders as an interim head coach, assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and linebackers coach.

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