ECU entrenched in recruiting

With National Signing Day just 10 days in the future, first-year East Carolina football coach Scottie Montgomery and his staff are fully involved in the recruiting game at the moment, and they will need some more scores to consider it a victory.

The Pirates’ commitment list during a difficult transition from former head coach Ruffin McNeill — to whom many of this year’s commits had initially given the nod — to Montgomery has meant some subtractions. Despite some losses, most of the pledged Pirates are still on board and the team continues to issue offers.

The list of verbals is currently at 11, roughly where it was when Montgomery took the reins in December. The Pirates hope to extend that…