Undaunted: By The Numbers
September 28, 2016 | Football
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Through the first month of the 2016 East Carolina football season, Pirate Nation has remained impressively "Undaunted" in its support of the Purple and Gold. With the American Athletic Conference opener against UCF set for Saturday in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, it is the perfect time to share a few reasons why ECU fan support ranks among the best not only in the conference but nationally.
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5 – Number of visits to the James & Connie Maynard Children's Hospital by the football team
47 – Current national ranking in average attendance (47,440); places the Pirates atop of the Group of 5
1,203 – Mini-plan football ticket packages sold for the 2016 season
1,862 – New ECUAthletics Twitter followers since the end of August
3,025 – Total number of social media posts received for use on the videoboard during the first two home games
4,362 – New ECUAthletics Facebook followers since the first week of the season
10,740 – Record number of Student Pirate Club members
20,500 – Football season tickets sold, most sold since 2012
50,719 – Second-highest single-game attendance in program history achieved against NC State
5,300,000 – The number of people reached through ECUAthletics Facebook content since the first week of the season
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