Virginia Tech Up Next for Pirates

GREENVILLE, N.C. — ECU (1-2) will take on the Virginia Tech Hokies (2-1) this weekend in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

NO SHORTAGE OF MOTIVATION East Carolina and Virginia Tech’s semi-rivalry takes center stage yet again, as the two teams meet for the seventh time in eight years for a national televised, likely rainy event. ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill holds a 1-3 record against Virginia Tech, with last season’s 28-21 victory in Blacksburg as his only win over the Hokies. In that contest, Shane Carden found the end zone four times through the air, and the Pirates stunned the No. 17 Hokies, just weeks after the hosting team downed eventual national-champion Ohio State. The game catapulted the…