
ECU hires Houston from James Madison and an AD
Pirates move beyond chaotic week with new AD and football coach
Photo: Mike Houston
East Carolina put an end to last weekend’s chaotic events by acting swiftly on Monday with announcements of two hires. Chancellor Cecil Staton named Jon Gilbert athletic director and Gilbert followed with Mike Houston as football coach.
Gilbert arrives from Southern Mississippi, where he has been athletic director since January 2017
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-- Book on Michigan State's leading role in the integration of college football. It explains Duffy Daugherty's untold pioneering role and debunks myths that steered recognition away from him to Bear Bryant.
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David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner and biographer; "History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in."