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The call on Godwin is ... safe
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Billy Godwin, pictured
offering encouragement between innings during a game at
Clark-LeClair Stadium in March, is expected to continue as
East Carolina's head baseball coach in 2014. |
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(Bonesville
archive photo by W.A. Myatt) |
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By Al Myatt
Bonesville Staff
©2013. All rights reserved.
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There probably has been more speculation on Billy
Godwin's status as East Carolina baseball coach outside the athletic
department than within.
The Pirate skipper has been conducting business as
usual this week, recruiting in the Northeast, and said Wednesday he expected
to be ECU's coach in 2014.
Director of media relations Tom McClellan said Thursday
that new athletic director Jeff Compher had put together a statement
indicating Godwin's job security through the year remaining on Godwin's
contract.
The ECU coach noted that the program lost almost 500
innings of pitching from the 2012 team and that many players were in
unaccustomed roles at the outset of 2013. The Pirates won 14 of their last
20 games to finish 31-26 as players' comfort levels begin to mesh with their
potential and experience.
"We're really excited about what we've got coming in
(recruits)," Godwin said. "Nobody's happy about how this year went."
ECU did not make the NCAA Tournament field this year.
The Pirates will compete in Conference USA for the last
time in 2014 before moving to the American Athletic Conference.
Godwin assumed the reigns of the ECU program in October
2005 after the resignation of Randy Mazey. Since then, he has compiled a
301-188-1 overall record and a 106-84-1 mark in C-USA. (View "Billy
Godwin by the Numbers."
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