Thompson Era Began With Revamped Defense, Lots Of Hitting Premium Content

ACCSports Staff

  By Nathan Summers, Kinston (N.C.) Free Press
April 21, 2003 GREENVILLE — Amid the crack of serious helmet-to-helmet contact and the shout of instructions from a somewhat unfamiliar voice, there were a couple of themes that dominated East Carolina’s 2003 spring football practice.

First-year coach John Thompson was championing the ferocity of the hitting,…


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