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Excerpt
from Bonesville.net The Magazine
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Spotlight looms
for 'Mr. Football'
©2002
Bonesville.net
The Magazine
By Denny O'Brien
To suggest that he is the perfect symbol of Pirate
football — the one player who can link East Carolina to its past, present,
and future on the gridiron — wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination.
Essentially, though, Paul Troth would just as soon be
viewed as an ordinary guy, just another member of the team.
But try as he
may, it will be tough to shed the image of Mr. Football at East Carolina,
which has been the de facto label for the program's starting quarterback
since head coach Steve Logan arrived in Greenville. The tradition started with Jeff Blake and passed on to
Marcus Crandell, then to Dan Gonzales, who handed the torch to David
Garrard.
Now, it is Troth's time to be the program's cover boy,
something for which he seemed destined since the day he first held the
pigskin...
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02/23/2007 04:00:42 PM
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