Wake-up call
ECU head coach Skip Holtz is not looking into Wake Forest's 0-2 start as anything more than another reason to be ready for anything.
The Demon Deacons saw Vanderbilt rally past them in week one 24-20, then could not muster any offense in a 31-3 loss to Nebraska. But Holtz said the scores were extremely deceptive.
"You look at Wake Forest right now and they're 0-2," Holtz said. "Last week, they lose to Nebraska 31-3, and Nebraska scores 21 points on defense. That's not something that's going to happen every week. Really, it was a 10-3 football game, if you take those 21 points out of the mix."
Holtz came to ECU from South Carolina, where he most recently served as assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach. In his six seasons in the Southeastern Conference, Holtz said he saw plenty of Vandy, and likened them to Wake Forest in many ways.
"They lose to Vanderbilt, and everybody talks about how Vanderbilt is at the cellar of the Southeastern Conference," Holtz said. "And Vanderbilt comes back and beats Arkansas last week. Having the opportunity to play against Vanderbilt the last couple of years, I think those are probably two very similar programs that, from a tradition standpoint, have more or less been toward the bottom of their league. But both have been improving tremendously."
Good bye
ECU spent its bye week trying to first re-evaluate itself after a real game, fix problems, and then prepare for Saturday's game at Wake Forest.
According to Holtz, the bye week was also instrumental in reminding the 1-0 Pirates there's a long way to go.
"We take nothing for granted sitting here 1-0. It was great to win, but it was great to have the open date to really go back and have the opportunity to study ourselves, see the mistakes we made and try to improve them," Holtz said. "Hopefully, with that open date we can make huge gains because we made an awful lot of mistakes in that opener."
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A hamstring injury will most likely keep Good, a starting receiver on the Pirates' offense, stuck in the dreaded 'game-time decision' category until Saturday night's kickoff at Wake Forest. Between now and then, Good will continue a regimen of trying to prepare for a game by trying not to over exert himself ? seemingly like driving between gears.
"Up until (Tuesday) I was feeling great, no problems," said the 6-foot-1, 186-pound Good. "Toward the end of practice I ran a takeoff, and it shocked me, and I stopped immediately. I didn't want to pull it completely. Right now, it's just day to day."
While his team is going full speed in preparation for Wake Forest, Good said he is receiving treatments on his hamstring as many as three times a day. He remains hopeful to make the field in Winston-Salem, but said he won't risk a long-term injury.
ECU head coach Skip Holtz is not looking into Wake Forest's 0-2 start as anything more than another reason to be ready for anything.
The Demon Deacons saw Vanderbilt rally past them in week one 24-20, then could not muster any offense in a 31-3 loss to Nebraska. But Holtz said the scores were extremely deceptive.
"You look at Wake Forest right now and they're 0-2," Holtz said. "Last week, they lose to Nebraska 31-3, and Nebraska scores 21 points on defense. That's not something that's going to happen every week. Really, it was a 10-3 football game, if you take those 21 points out of the mix."
Holtz came to ECU from South Carolina, where he most recently served as assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach. In his six seasons in the Southeastern Conference, Holtz said he saw plenty of Vandy, and likened them to Wake Forest in many ways.
"They lose to Vanderbilt, and everybody talks about how Vanderbilt is at the cellar of the Southeastern Conference," Holtz said. "And Vanderbilt comes back and beats Arkansas last week. Having the opportunity to play against Vanderbilt the last couple of years, I think those are probably two very similar programs that, from a tradition standpoint, have more or less been toward the bottom of their league. But both have been improving tremendously."
Good bye
ECU spent its bye week trying to first re-evaluate itself after a real game, fix problems, and then prepare for Saturday's game at Wake Forest.
According to Holtz, the bye week was also instrumental in reminding the 1-0 Pirates there's a long way to go.
"We take nothing for granted sitting here 1-0. It was great to win, but it was great to have the open date to really go back and have the opportunity to study ourselves, see the mistakes we made and try to improve them," Holtz said. "Hopefully, with that open date we can make huge gains because we made an awful lot of mistakes in that opener."
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A hamstring injury will most likely keep Good, a starting receiver on the Pirates' offense, stuck in the dreaded 'game-time decision' category until Saturday night's kickoff at Wake Forest. Between now and then, Good will continue a regimen of trying to prepare for a game by trying not to over exert himself ? seemingly like driving between gears.
"Up until (Tuesday) I was feeling great, no problems," said the 6-foot-1, 186-pound Good. "Toward the end of practice I ran a takeoff, and it shocked me, and I stopped immediately. I didn't want to pull it completely. Right now, it's just day to day."
While his team is going full speed in preparation for Wake Forest, Good said he is receiving treatments on his hamstring as many as three times a day. He remains hopeful to make the field in Winston-Salem, but said he won't risk a long-term injury.
