Interview With: C. Brinson (200 Years Too Late)
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In this edition of “Interview With:” I was fortunate enough to get Charlie Brinson (GhostLikeSwayze on Twitter) from the East Carolina web site 200 Years too Late to talk about the up coming game between the Pirates and the Tar Heels. If you are looking for updates from this site via Twitter you can follow them by going here. The site also has a following on facebook as well. In other words they are a lot bigger than I am and I appreciate the fact that Charlie took the time from his busy schedule to answer my questions. So, without further ado, here they are…
A.E.M.: Has the season begun the way that the fan base thought it would for East Carolina? If not, what has gone better (or worst) for the Pirates?
C. Brinson: I think that the Pirates have started the season the way that the fan base had wanted. Beating Appalachian State, even with the asterisk that Armanti Edwards created when he ran over his own foot with a lawnmower, was big. It was the first time that we have played them in about 30 years and in-state rivalries are always big games.
We began the game and it seemed like it was going to be a blowout (27-7) but things changed as soon as the ref blew the whistle for halftime. A completely different ECU team stepped on the field during the second half and App St took advantage of our carelessness and ending up cutting the deficit to 29-24 with 3 minutes left. The Pirates only scored 2 pts in the 2nd half from a safety. We managed to stop App St as they were driving down field to try and win the game. That is something that Pirate fans shouldn’t have had to worry about with a 27-7 lead. It should be a lot of running of the ball and it wasn’t. There were some play calls that had fans saying “What the f_ck?!?!?”
The WVU game was a helluva game. We started out in similar fashion to the App St game by taking a 10 pt lead. We went into halftime down 1 point (20-21) and then the same damn thing happened…we started the second half and completely different team came out. We did not score in the 2nd half and WVU continued dominance with Jock Sanders and Noel Devine.
I (and I think the ECU fan base) love the way the Pirates have been playing…in the first half. I just can’t take anymore of this 2nd half nonsense. It is ridiculous.
A.E.M.: For the average fan, that knows its own team but not so much the opponent’s, give us a couple of players on offense and a couple on defense that we should look for in this weekend’s match up.
C. Brinson:
#17 – Dwayne Harris
WR that gets nasty. Skip will bring him to the backfield every once in a while to mess with opponents and he usually will get some great yardage on those plays. Great runner.
#80 – Alex Taylor
WR that I think will be having a standout year this year. He has the speed and size to be dominant.
#3 – Brandon Jackson
RB who transferred from Kentucky. The guy is an absolute beast with speed to boot. Watch for him to find the hole (that’s what she said) in the defense and wave to him as he runs to the endzone.
#2 – Jonathan Williams
This kid is a manimal (man + animal = manimal) and a Greenville, NC native. He is the guy that we look for to get us that first down when we really, really need it.
A.E.M.: Who do you think that ECU fears the most on UNC’s squad? And of course why.
C. Brinson: I am not going to say that ECU is fears anyone on UNC’s squad but I think that if Yates’ arm is able to throw deep, we are in for a little trouble. Our secondary hasn’t really looked incredible in the past two games (minus Van Eskridge who seemed to be the only person who could tackle a WVU player or get near the ball).
A.E.M.: ECU will win the game if they…
C. Brinson: …play in the second half like they play in the first half.
A.E.M.: ECU will lose the game if they…
C. Brinson: …come out of the locker room in the second half and play the same old bullshit as the last two games.
A.E.M.: And of course, the question that must be asked, what do you think the final score will be?
C. Brinson: I think it will be a close one. I have gotta take my Pirates winning a close one: 23-20. It will be another victory by field goal just like the last battle in Greenville.
Once again I thank Charlie Brinson for answering these questions for me. Remember to check him out on twitter (as GhostLikeSwayze), or check out his site, 200 Years too Late, on twitter as well. Hopefully I will be able to get another interview with him next week to talk about the game and do a small recap of it, until then I hope you enjoyed this edition of “Interview With:”.
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