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Scottie Montgomery as offensive coordinator and
quarterbacks coach. The 49-year-old California
native has logged 25 years in the coaching ranks
since his playing days as an award-winning QB at
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FOOTBALL |
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Coach Mo's staff starts taking shape |
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Ten days after taking
over as East Carolina's
head football coach, Scottie
Montgomery took the first formal
steps on Wednesday towards
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GREENVILLE — The
shooting touch that was missing for
East Carolina on Sunday at James
Madison was found on Tuesday night
in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum
as the Pirates won 98-71 over South
Carolina State. ECU (8-5) jumped out
to leads of 13-2 and 21-4 against
the Bulldogs (5-8).
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HARRISONBURG, VA — After taking a
61-60 lead on two free throws by B.J.
Tyson with 2:48 remaining, East
Carolina didn't score the rest of
the way in a 67-61 nonconference
loss at James Madison on Sunday
afternoon. Poor shooting plagued the
Pirates (7-5), who made just 21 of
61 field goal attempts for 34.4
percent.
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Beam us up, Scottie |
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 I never was a big Star Trek fan but the headline phrase ran through my
mind when Scottie Montgomery was named football coach at East Carolina. There was some degree of urgency oftentimes when Captain Kirk asked to
be returned to the Enterprise on the television show.
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GREENVILLE — East Carolina trailed
UNC-Wilmington 38-27 after a dunk by
Chris Flemmings of the Seahawks with
2:37 left in the first half, but the
Pirates came back for a 78-73 win
Wednesday night in Williams Arena at
Minges Coliseum. B.J. Tyson scored a
game-high 21 points for ECU (7-4)
and Caleb White added 20 points.
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Staff Report
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On the eve of
officially going on the payroll on New Year's Day as East Carolina's
head football coach, Scottie Montgomery swung into action a day early on
Thursday by tapping the staff of former ECU coach Skip Holtz for an
offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Tony
Petersen, one of 34 college football assistant coaches nominated for
the 2015 Broyles Award, will bring offensive coaching skills to the
Pirates that helped Louisiana Tech average more than 37 points per
game and record consecutive nine-win seasons and back-to-back bowl
victories in 2014 and 2015.
Among a litany of notable offensive accomplishments during the
Bulldogs' emergence as a Conference USA power was Petersen's
development of standout quarterbacks Cody Sokol and Jeff Driskel.
Petersen's portfolio includes 25 years of coaching experience. He
joined Holtz in Shreveport in 2013 after serving three years as
offensive coordinator at Marshall, his alma mater. His previous
stops included South Dakota, Iowa State and Minnesota.
"His
experience and background is defined by a consistent high level of
production and we are thrilled about his desire to be at East
Carolina," Montgomery said in a news release.
According to
a report in the Shreveport Times,
Petersen made a base salary of $200,000 last season and was the
second-highest paid offensive coordinator in C-USA. It would be
reasonable to assume that Petersen will received a meaningful boost
in income for making the move to Greenville.
Petersen joins an ECU staff
that began taking shape
two days before Christmas when Montgomery announced the hiring of
his first five assistants:
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Defensive coordinator Kenwick Thompson (previously served as
Vanderbilt associate head coach
and linebackers coach)
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Defensive line coach Deke Adams (previously served in the same role
at South Carolina)
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Wide receivers coach Phil McGeoghan (previously served in the same
role for the Miami Dolphins)
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Secondary coach Rick Smith (previously served as defensive
coordinator and secondary coach on former ECU coach Ruffin McNeill's
staff)
•
Assistant athletics director for football operations Terrell Smith
(previously served as
director of football operations at Duke)
The
Brian Bailey Show airs on Pirate
Radio 1250 on Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Brian's guest this week was new East
Carolina
football coach Scottie Montgomery
(right):