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TH winds up e-exchange
Bonesville.net staff
report
East Carolina athletic
director Terry Holland has posted what the school called "the last of a
web dialogue" spawned in the wake of the school's announcement last week
that it intended to replace Bill Herrion as Pirates basketball coach at
the end of the season.
The post, published Monday
on ECU's official athletics Website (ecupirates.com)
was a follow-up to one that appeared on the site on Sunday in which
Holland responded to a scathing e-mail message he had received from a
sender identified as "Bryan, Class of '80."
The message criticized
Holland in sarcastic tones over last week's announcement that Herrion
would be relieved of his coaching duties, accusing the first-year ECU AD
of being a hypocrite and ridiculing Holland's ties to the Atlantic Coast
Conference.
Holland served lengthy
stints as basketball coach and athletic director at ACC member Virginia.
Holland's Sunday post,
billed as an "An Open Response," strongly defended the decision to
replace Herrion and countered harsh claims and implications in the
message about Holland's performance as AD.
The sender's message and
Holland's reply, both of which were published in full on a page linked
from the ecupirates.com home page on Sunday, have since been removed
from the site. A
detailed story about the exchange
appeared Monday on Bonesville.net.
The subsequent Monday post
by Holland, apparently prompted by an avalanche of electronic feedback,
was conciliatory in tone and was clearly intended to put the matter to
rest.
Following is the unedited
text of Monday's post by Holland, preceded by the site's introductory
paragraph:
Go Pirates!
02/27/2005
Below is the last of a
web-dialogue between ECU Athletics Director Terry Holland and all Pirate
interests regarding last week's events. Due to the overwhelming amount
of mail he has received, he would like to deliver the following message:
All is well that ends well
— Bryan has responded in a way that would make all true Pirates proud.
And I have apologized to him for using his earlier e-mail to address
those who shared his sentiments but did not have the guts to write to
me.
We need people with
Bryan's passion to fight the battles ahead and I am proud to serve on
the Pirate ship with him.
Let's all move ahead with
the business at hand — beating Memphis in the Women's tournament in
Charlotte, beating Tulane in New Orleans on Saturday, having a great
Softball weekend AND celebrating the opening of Clark-LeClair stadium (a
truly stunning Pirate achievement).
GO PIRATES!
Page updated:
02/23/07 11:44 AM
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