East Carolina has made the primary teaching change of the 2024 season.
The varsity introduced Sunday that Mike Houston had been fired. The Pirates are 3-4 this season after a blowout loss to Military on Saturday. The Black Knights received 45-28 every week after ECU misplaced 55-24 at Charlotte.
“After a complete analysis of our soccer program, I knowledgeable Mike Houston this morning that we’re making a change in management,” ECU athletic director Jon Gilbert mentioned in an announcement. “This was a really troublesome choice. Mike has led our program the final 5 plus seasons with super class and has positively impacted so many student-athletes. After incomes back-to-back bowl invites, we appeared poised for continued success. Sadly, we now have not seen the outcomes all of us need, and a change is required to maneuver this system ahead. We’ve excessive expectations and people will not be altering.
ECU was 27-38 in five-plus seasons with Houston in cost. The Pirates had two seasons above .500 and went to the Birmingham Bowl on the finish of the 2022 season. The Pirates received that recreation 53-29 over Coastal Carolina to complete the season 8-5.
Defensive coordinator Blake Harrell has been named the crew’s interim coach.
ECU already has extra wins this 12 months than it did a season in the past, nonetheless. The Pirates had been 2-10 final 12 months and averaged simply 17 factors per recreation as its three quarterbacks mixed to throw seven touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
Success has been arduous to return by in current seasons. The Birmingham Bowl look in 2022 was the varsity’s first bowl recreation for the reason that finish of the 2014 season and ECU’s 7-5 marketing campaign in 2021 was the varsity’s first successful season in seven years.