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News Nuggets, 09.04.04
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Big hat tossed in the ring for ECU AD position?

A high-profile figure in the national collegiate athletics community with Eastern North Carolina roots may be in line to fill the vacant athletic director's position at East Carolina University, WNCT-AM Talk 1070 has reported.

Terry Holland, former basketball coach and athletic director at Virginia, was on the ECU campus this week to meet with Chancellor Steve Ballard, said Henry Hinton on his daily Talk of the Town drive-time program on Friday.

"We are not reporting that Terry Holland is going to accept the job," Hinton said on the air, citing reliable sources. "We are reporting that he has expressed an interest in the job."

During an exchange with U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, his guest on Friday's show, Hinton said, "It is possible that Terry Holland may take the job here. It's not a done deal, but the announcement could come as soon as next week." [Click here for the archived audio of Friday's Talk of the Town program.]

Holland, a Clinton native and a basketball All-American at Davidson during Lefty Driesell's 1960's stint as coach at the school, stepped down less than two months ago as special assistant to University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III.

Prior to his appointment to the position in Casteen's office, Holland had served as head coach or athletic director at the school since 1974, except for a five-year stretch from 1990-95, when he returned to his alma mater as AD.

As coach of the Cavaliers from 1974-90, he became the most successful coach in Virginia history with a record of 326-173, including a Final Four appearance.

Upon returning to Charlottesville from Davidson in 1995, Holland became Virginia's athletic director, a position he held until June 2001, when he became a special aide to the president.

Holland's is the most prominent of four names to surface Friday in connection with ECU's year-long quest to hire a permanent athletic director, a position that was vacated in August 2003 when controversy-plagued former AD Mike Hamrick made a parallel job move to become athletic director at Nevada-Las Vegas.

Bonesville.net's Al Myatt reported that athletic directors Bruce Van De Velde of Iowa State, Mike O'Brien of Toledo and Sam Baker of Georgia Southern may also be in the mix of candidates who have expressed interest in the position since Ballard, ECU's chancellor, hired former Big 8 (now Big 12) commissioner Chuck Neinas to assist in the search process.

Senior Associate Athletic Director Nick Floyd has served as the Pirates' interim AD since Hamrick's departure. Floyd expressed interest in the fulltime job several months ago but his since withdrawn his candidacy.

Talk 1070 slates marathon football Saturday

Greenville radio station WNCT-AM 1070 will broadcast East Carolina football programming from mid-afternoon to late evening Saturday as the Pirates open the 2004 season at West Virginia.

The 10,000-watt station, which joins the affiliates of the Pirate Sports Radio Network this season after a change in management and a transition to a talk and sports format, will carry its own original programming from 3:00 p.m. until switching to the ECU network feed two hours later.

After the contest between the Pirates and the No. 10 Mountaineers, which is set for a 6:00 p.m. kickoff, the station will broadcast a recap segment and launch into an open-ended call-in show during which fans are invited to telephone 252-355-8822 to discuss the game with Johnson and former ECU football player Richard Hourigan.

The station's on-air reporters and personalities who will be involved in the game day programming include Patrick Johnson, Denny O'Brien, Kevin Miller and Charlie Robinson, with Brian North, Kevin Travis, John Schwartz, Nate Summers and Bethany Bradsher appearing as guests.

O'Brien, a Bonesville.net reporter and columnist who will be covering the game for the site with Bonesville.net's Al Myatt, will report by phone from the press box in Morgantown.

Johnson, the host of the lineup of programming, is also slated to interview Pirate running backs Art Brown and Marvin Townes.

Talk 1070's Saturday football programming schedule:

 --- 3 p.m. — Pirate Game Day Countdown
 --- 5 p.m. — Pirate Sports Radio Network Pre-Game
 --- 6 p.m. — Pirate Sports Radio Network Play-by-Play
 --- Post-game — Pirate Post-game Show

The entire day and evening of coverage, as well as the live network call of the game itself, can also be heard via Bonesville.net' live Internet stream of the station's audio feed at the following address:

 http://www.bonesville.net/Talk1070.htm.

Talk 1070 is also the home of the Bonesville Power Hour, hosted by Johnson and featuring the site's writers as well as a lineup of weekly guests. The show is broadcast by the station each Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

News Nuggets are compiled periodically from staff, ECU, Conference USA and its member schools, and from Associated Press and other reports. Copyright 2004 Bonesville.net and other publishers. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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