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ECU Pirates motivated by preseason prediction

By Adam Rittenberg
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, November 9, 2006

James Pinkney burns inside when recalling the July day when Conference USA announced its preseason football poll. Like many of his East Carolina teammates, Pinkney perused the poll to see where the league's coaches had slotted the Pirates. He scanned and scanned, all the way to the bottom of the page. Last. That's where East Carolina was projected to finish in Conference USA's East Division. Dead last. "Everybody was pissed, real mad," said Pinkney, the Pirates' senior quarterback who ente ...

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