ECU is the school that is always almost there in football, they just haven't had the resources to keep it going upward. They've had teams that could pound the dog yewt out of you, as they did to my Gamecocks in Columbia a long time ago. But then coaches move on and they haven't been able to sustain the upward momentum. The state of NC is simply too basketball focused, and specifically focused on Tobacco road.
I wasn't sold on Ruffin McNeil initially, but he's starting to prove he's gonna have a good team year in and year out. Hopefully ECU can continue to hold onto him.