2007 East Carolina Pirates football team explained

Year:	2007
Team:	East Carolina Pirates
Conference:	Conference USA
Division:	East
Short Conf:	C-USA
Record:	8–5
Conf Record:	6–2
Head Coach:	Skip Holtz
Hc Year:	3rd
Cooff Coach1:	Steve Shankweiler
Cooc1 Year:	3rd
Cooff Coach2:	Todd Fitch
Cooc2 Year:	1st
Def Coach:	Greg Hudson
Dc Year:	3rd
Champion:	Hawaii Bowl champion
Bowl Result:	W 41–38 vs. Boise State

The 2007 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season and played their home games in Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. The team was coached by Skip Holtz, who was in his fourth year with the program.

The Pirates have a local television contract with WITN-TV, an NBC affiliate located in Washington, NC who elects to pick up games that are not picked up by national or regional networks, and all games are broadcast over the radio on the Pirate-ISP Sports Network. The flagship radio stations of the Pirates are Pirate Radio 1250 and 930 AM and Oldies 107.9 WNCT, both located in Greenville, NC. The games are called by the "Voice of the Pirates," Jeff Charles.

Preseason

Recruiting

Coaching staff

bgcolor=silver	Position	bgcolor=silver	Name	bgcolor=silver	Years at ECU	bgcolor=silver	Alma Mater
Head Coach	Skip Holtz	3rd	Notre Dame '86
Offensive coordinator/ Quarterbacks Coach:	Todd Fitch	1st	Ohio Wesleyan '86
Defensive Coordinator Linebacker Coach:	Greg Hudson	2nd	Notre Dame '90
Offensive coordinator Offensive linemen coach:	Steve Shankweiler	3rd(13th overall)	Davidson '74
Assistant head coach/ Secondarys Coach	Rick Smith	3rd	Florida State '71
Director of strength & conditioning	Michael Golden	2nd	Central Connecticut State '92
Defensive end Coach/ Special teams	Vernon Hargreaves	1st	Connecticut '86
Wide receiver Coach/ Recruiting coordinator	Donnie Kirkpatrick	3rd	Lenoir-Rhyne '82
Tight ends Coach:	Phil Petty	3rd	South Carolina '01
Director of HS football relations	Harold Robinson	3rd	East Carolina '72
Defensive tackle Coach	Thomas Roggeman	3rd	Notre Dame '85
Running backs Coach	Wardell "Junior" Smith	3rd	East Carolina '97
Director of operations	Clifford Snow	2nd	Central Connecticut State '83
Staff Assistant/ Defense Coach	Tim Carter	2nd	Tulane '01
Staff Assistant/ Offense Coach	Paul Troth	2nd	Liberty '05
Administrative Assistant to Coach Holtz	Courtney Bishop	-	-
Administrative Assistant	Ann Coyle	-	East Carolina '06
Administrative Assistant	Ryan Ormond	-	North Carolina '02

Game summaries

Virginia Tech

See also: Virginia Tech massacre. Recap: Week 1

The Pirates traveled to Blacksburg for an emotional game that marked the first football game since thirty-two students lost their lives in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. Prior to the game, the Hokies led the all-time series 8-4-1. The Pirates entered the game without starting quarterback Rob Kass and struggled offensively. After a costly interception returned for a touchdown by Macho Harris followed by a Sean Glennon touchdown pass, the Pirates were defeated by Virginia Tech, 17-7.

North Carolina

The Pirates welcomed the Tar Heels to Greenville for only the second time in this series' history. North Carolina went into the game leading the all-time record 8-1-1 after a 28-17 victory in Greenville in 2003, but they would be unable to repeat. Quarterback Patrick Pinkney led the Pirates offensively and completed 31 of 41 passes for 406 yards, but North Carolina's T. J. Yates would answer by throwing three touchdowns and keeping the game close. A costly mistake by the Tar Heels set up the final drive, where after missing all prior field goals in the game, Placekicker Ben Hartman made the game-winning field goal, leading the Pirates to defeat the Tar Heels in Greenville for the first time ever, 34-31.

Southern Miss

West Virginia

Houston

UCF

UTEP

NC State

UAB

Memphis

Marshall

Tulane

Hawaii Bowl

Postseason

NFL draft picks

Chris Johnson - Round 1: 24th (24th overall) - Tennessee Titans

Awards

Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Year: Chris Johnson^[2]

Honors

Statistics

Team

	Team	Opp
Scoring	403	395
Points per Game	31	30.4
First Downs	246	300
Rushing	117	105
Passing	108	175
Penalty	21	20
Total Offense	5011	5605
Avg per Play	5.7	5.7
Avg per Game	385.5	431.2
Fumbles-Lost	15-5	28-14
Penalties-Yards	104-827	71-699
Avg per Game	63.6	53.8

	Team	Opp
Punts-Yards	82-3307	61-2256
Avg per Punt	40.3	37.0
Time of Possession/Game	28:56	31:04
3rd Down Conversions	71/182	81/201
4th Down Conversions	4/12	11/19
Touchdowns Scored	52	48
Field Goals-Attempts-Long	13-23	21-27
PAT-Attempts	50-50	40-45
Attendance	249219	242242
Games/Avg per Game	6/41536	6/40374
Neutral Site Avg	1/41536

Scores by quarter

Offense

Rushing

Name	GP	Att	Gain	Loss	Net	Avg	Td	Long	Avg/g
Johnson, Chris	13	236	1468	45	1423	6.0	17	70	109.5
Pinkney, Patrick	13	79	402	96	306	3.9	1	45	23.5
Lindsay, Dominique	13	66	225	20	205	3.1	5	22	15.8
Harris, Dwayne	13	20	197	0	197	9.9	1	57	15.2
Williams, Jonathan	10	22	153	3	150	6.8	1	35	15.0
Whitley, Norman	8	6	44	0	44	7.3	0	14	5.5
Simmons, Brandon	11	11	32	4	28	2.5	2	9	2.5
Dodge, Matt	13	3	20	0	20	6.7	0	9	1.5
Kass, Rob	10	33	101	82	19	0.6	2	15	1.9
Brockmeyer, Justin	1	1	1	0	1	1.0	0	1	1.0
Ballard, Darnell	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0
Clay, Brett	4	3	3	14	-11	-3.7	0	3	-2.8
Team	8	3	0	4	-4	-1.3	0	0	-0.5
Total	13	484	2646	268	2378	4.9	29	70	182.9

Passing

Name	GP	Effic	Att-cmp-int	Pct	Yds	Td	Lng	Avg/g
Pinkney, Patrick	13	131.69	121-200-4	60.5	1358	11	78	104.5
Kass, Rob	10	123.13	96-175-4	54.9	1164	9	72	116.4
Clay, Brett	4	39.88	5-13-1	38.5	26	0	14	6.5
Harris, Dwayne	13	367.33	1-3-0	33.3	80	1	80	6.2
Sloan, Joseph	13	142.00	1-1-0	100.0	5	0	5	0.4
Team	8	0.00	0-3-0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0
Total	13	125.69	224-395-9	56.7	2633	21	80	202.5

Receiving

Name	GP	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long	Avg/G
Bryant, Jamar	13	48	704	14.7	6	80	54.2
Johnson, Chris	13	37	528	14.3	6	78	40.6
Henry, Phillip	13	27	279	10.3	0	20	21.5
Harris, Dwayne	13	26	246	9.5	2	22	18.9
Rogers, Steven	13	25	252	10.1	2	39	19.4
Drew, Davon	13	19	196	10.3	2	26	15.1
Crowell, Juwon	13	11	144	13.1	1	34	11.1
Lindsay, Dominique	13	9	58	6.4	1	11	4.5
Sonnhalter, Jay	13	7	54	7.7	0	16	4.2
Lee, T.J.	12	5	83	16.6	1	34	6.9
Hickman, Michael	12	4	79	19.8	0	31	6.6
Johnson, Kyle	10	2	5	2.5	0	6	0.5
Kraemer, J.R.	9	1	9	9.0	0	9	1.0
Brumsey, Javon	2	1	5	5.0	0	5	2.5
Williams, Jonathan	10	1	4	4.0	0	4	0.4
Pinkney, Patrick	13	1	-13	-13.0	0	0	-1.0
Total	13	224	2633	11.8	21	80	202.5

Defense

Name	GP	Tackles				Sacks	Pass defense			Fumbles		Blkd Kick	Safety
Name	GP	Solo	Ast	Total	TFL-Yds	No-Yds	Int-Yds	BrUp	QBH	Rcv-Yds	FF	Blkd Kick	Safety
GP	Solo Tackles	Ast	Total Tackes	TFL-Yds	Sacks:No.-Yds	Pass BrUp	QBH	No. Int-Yds	Int Avg	Int for TD	Long Int	Fumbles:Rcv-Yds	FF	Blkd Kick -->	Eskridge, Van	13	55	49	104	6.5-18	.	1-7	3	.	1-50	.	.	.
Bell, Pierre	13	45	52	97	5.0-9	.	2-13	2	3	.	1	.	.
Wilson, Fred	13	26	55	81	1.5-5	1.5-5	.	1	2	.	.	.	.
Williams, Travis	13	53	24	77	2.5-7	.	2-0	4	1	.	2	.	.
Cotton, Quentin	12	35	31	66	11.0-48	1.5-13	1-16	2	6	1-0	1	.	.
Hewett, Jerek	13	33	16	49	2.0-7	.	2-0	5	.	1-0	1	.	.
Slate, Zack	13	22	27	49	11.5-44	4.5-21	.	1	4	.	2	.	.
Milbrook, J.J.	12	26	21	47	4.0-16	.	3-37	.	.	.	2	.	.
Best, Leon	13	21	20	41	1.0-1	.	2-47	3	.	.	1	.	.
Joseph, Linval	13	13	27	40	8.5-23	1.0-7	.	.	5	2-0	.	.	.
Mattocks, Chris	10	24	15	39	1.0-1	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.
Chambliss, Jeremy	11	20	18	38	3.0-9	.	1-17	1	.	1-4	1	.	.
Ross, Jay	13	13	25	38	4.5-21	2.0-12	.	4	7	2-0	1	.	.
Wilson, C.J.	13	17	19	36	10.5-59	7.0-49	.	.	12	.	1	2	.
Mack, Dalvon	11	11	17	28	0.5-6	0.5-6	.	1	.	.	2	.	.
Johnson, Nick	11	14	14	28	1.5-3	.	.	1	1	1-0	1	.	.
Simmons, Travis	12	17	10	27	.	.	1-80	2	.	.	.	.	.
Osborne, Lorenzo	13	9	13	22	2.0-21	2.0-21	.	.	2	.	.	.	.
Patterson, Melvin	13	5	15	20	2.0-10	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mitchell, Khalif	11	10	9	19	5.5-24	2.0-20	1-0	1	3	1-0	.	.	.
Robinson, Scott	13	3	13	16	3.5-14	1.5-6	.	.	3	.	.	.	.
Marshall, Dekota	13	9	6	15	1.0-9	.	.	.	.	1-0	.	.	.
Reynolds, Darryl	9	9	6	15	1.0-1	.	1-0	3	.	.	.	.	.
Hands, Marcus	4	2	12	14	2.0-10	0.5-4	.	.	4	1-0	.	.	.
Muhwezi, Danny	10	6	7	13	1.5-2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Robinson, Mark	13	3	5	8	2.0-6	2.0-6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Smith, Willie	11	2	5	7	1.0-1	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.
Hartman, Ben	13	4	2	6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Quintanilla, Juan	7	3	3	6	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Lamb, Durwin	11	2	4	6	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Williams, Jonathan	10	4	1	5	.	.	.	.	.	1-0	.	.	.
Lindsay, Dominique	13	2	3	5	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Raynor, Wilson	13	1	3	4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Setzer, Brandon	4	1	2	3	0.5-2	.	.	2	.	.	.	.	.
Simmons, Brandon	11	1	2	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Johnson, A.J.	7	3	.	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Bell, Kris	3	1	2	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Drew, Davon	13	2	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Hampton, Spencer	4	1	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Lee, T.J.	12	2	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Harris, Dwayne	13	1	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Osemene, Nweike	11	1	1	2	1.5-6	1.0-5	.	.	.	1-0	.	.	.
Hickman, Michael	12	1	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Sonnhalter, Jay	13	.	2	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Atkins, Chris	2	2	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Gidrey, Kevin	13	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Crowell, Juwon	13	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Rogers, Steven	13	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Pittman, Wesley	2	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Harper, Craig	2	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Bryant, Jamar	13	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Kraemer, J.R.	9	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Johnson, Kyle	10	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Pinkney, Patrick	13	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Henry, Phillip	13	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Total	13	542	562	1104	98-383	27-175	17-217	37	55	14-54	20	3	.

Special teams

Name	Punting								Kickoffs
Name	No.	Yds	Avg	Long	TB	FC	I20	Blkd	No.	Yds	Avg	TB	OB
Dodge, Matt	80	3307	41.3	67	11	12	24	0	4	242	60.5	0	0
Hartman, Ben									69	4220	61.2	7	2
Team	2	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	82	3307	40.3	67	11	12	24	2	73	4462	61.1	7	2

Name	Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Name	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long	No.	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
Harris, Dwayne	31	250	8.1	0	46	5	89	17.8	0	27
Rogers, Steven	3	8	2.7	0	8
Johnson, Chris						36	1009	28.0	1	96
Williams, Jonathan						14	312	22.3	0	63
Lindsay, Dominique						2	58	29.0	0	33
Lamb, Durwin						1	10	10.0	0	10
Mack, Dalvon						1	5	5.0	0	5
Simmons, Jason						1	10	10.0	0	10
Kraemer, J.R.						1	6	6.0	0	6
Simmons, Brandon						1	7	7.0	0	7
Total	34	258	7.6	0	46	62	1506	24.3	1	96

Notes and References

Web site: East Carolina Pirates Roster. ecupirates.cstv.com. 2009-03-27. 2012-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20120905203700/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ecu/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/footballroster_07.pdf. dead.
Web site: 2007 ECU Media Archive. 18 December 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081223224429/http://ecupirates.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/ecu-m-footbl-2007.html. 23 December 2008. dead. dmy-all.