Blake Harrell

And that's what's important at the end of the day.

And Blake Harrell said in his post-game press conference that sometimes you have to win ugly to learn how to win pretty.

And so I hope that there's some merit to that, and I hope that things turn around for us going forward.

But Hutch, since we won, let's go ahead and get into the positives first.

And there just seems to be so much uncertainty within the offense.

Hutch, we went from Mitch Griffiths in the first couple series to Emery Williams for a few series, and then back to Mitch Griffiths.

So to me, that showed that Blake Harrell and Jordan Davis don't know what they want to do.

You know, it's one thing benching Mitch when he's not playing good and putting Emery in.

Well, I also, there's like rumblings that like, ECU's head coach would be on the top of the charts for, like, if the Wake job opened, if the NC State job opened, even Carolina.

Blake Harrell is his name.

Would you take Doran? I'm sorry?

If Doran got fired, would you take

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And I guess usually we don't have a press conference by week, but we will be having one on Monday.

So we'll be hearing from Blake Harrell following East Carolina and North Carolina Central.

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Coming up Saturday at 4 o'clock, we'll be with you at noon on the Bud Light pregame tailgate, taking you up to that kickoff and after the game on the fifth quarter.

We'll come back and get ready for K-Dub, Ken Watlington.

Also, our new Blue Pirate Report, we'll hear from Trey Oliver, the head coach of NC Central.

Considering all of those brand-new faces, many of them in brand-new roles, Coach Braum deserves a lot of credit for putting the pieces together so well and so quickly that the Cardinals are considered, along with Miami, among the top contenders for this year's ACC Championship Game.

Shout-out to East Carolina head coach Blake Harrell, new defensive coordinator Jordan Hankins, and veteran safety Ayden Duncanson for combining to, no exaggeration, save the Pirates' season last week during a come-from-behind road victory against ODU.

With the ECU offense struggling mightily for the third consecutive week, and with the Pirates trailing the Monarchs 17 to 10 early in the third quarter and at severe risk of falling to 0 and 3 on the season, Duncanson dialed into an awkward across-the-body pass toward midfield from the ODU quarterback.

He stepped in front of a receiver and snagged the interception.

Then he sprinted down the left sideline and followed his defensive teammates' blocks all the way into the end zone for a game-tying 67-yard pick six that proved to be the biggest play of the game and one that could turn out to be among the biggest plays of the Pirates' season if they can get their offense going at some point, too.

Harrell, of course, is ECU's former defensive coordinator, whose fingerprints are still all over that side of the ball.

Hankins just arrived this year from Memphis, where he helped the Tigers to 19 wins over the previous two seasons, the defensive coordinator.

And Duncanson, who earned the American Conference's Defensive Player of the Week honor for his heroics on Saturday, is in his third year at ECU after beginning his college career at UNC, and he had played mostly in backup roles b- for both the Pirates and the Tar Heels before that huge breakout game in Norfolk.