ECU-West Virginia Kickoff Moved Up To 12 Noon
September 10, 2007 | Football
Sept. 10, 2007
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The kickoff time for East Carolina's non-conference contest against West Virginia, originally scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, has been moved up to 12 noon (EDT) to accommodate a live national television broadcast on ESPN2 according to an announcement from the network Monday afternoon.
The national telecast will be the second this season and fourth for East Carolina in its last 12 games on an ESPN entity. ESPN carried the Pirates' 2007 season opener at Virginia Tech Sept. 1 while ESPN2 aired a pair of games last year, which included West Virginia's visit to Greenville on Sept. 23 and ECU's bowl clash against USF last December.
East Carolina has gotten off to a 1-2 start under third-year head coach Skip Holtz, splitting its first two games against Atlantic Coast Conference members Virginia Tech (L, 17-7) and North Carolina (W, 34-31) before opening Conference USA play with a 28-21 setback against Southern Miss. West Virginia (3-0), ranked No. 5 in both polls this week, is coming off a 31-14 victory at Maryland.
The contest between the Pirates and Mountaineers was earlier scheduled for a regional broadcast.
