ECSU needs to focus on homecoming

ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina  --  Homecoming at Elizabeth City State can offer plenty of distractions as parties, visiting friends and family and special events vie for the attention of the players.

Vikings coach Waverly Tillar appreciates the good-time atmosphere, but he has a directive for the team: Make sure today’s game with Chowan tops the priority list.

“I think a lot of them are mature enough to look past everything going on, but we reminded them of what is at stake with this game,” he said. “I told them the other day if they get caught up in the homecoming festivities that’s where they will find themselves on Nov. 10 — at home.”

Nov. 10, of course, is the date of the CIAA championship game. And with three conference games remaining, the Vikings (4-3 overall, 3-1 CIAA) still have every reason to believe they can be the Northern Division representative in the game for the second straight year.

Chowan (4-3, 3-1), enjoying its best season since it joined the conference, has its own aspirations to ...

 

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ECSU’s Tillar takes to air

Elizabeth City State football coach Waverly Tillar was craving more exposure for his program. ECSU’s radio station was looking to expand its sports programming. It seemed like the perfect marriage.

This season, Tillar and ECSU campus radio station WRVS FM 89.9 have teamed up for a weekly coach’s show. Each Thursday evening at 7 p.m., Randy Jones, who is also the voice of the Vikings on the station football broadcasts, sits down with Tillar at the Elizabeth City Applebee’s to discuss Vikings football.

The idea of a weekly radio show has been in the air around ECSU for several years, but only came to fruition this year after new production director Clay Mercer joined WRVS.

“He has some vision and wants to do a few things and bring in some new ideas,” Jones said. “They approached me about doing this every Thursday and I was with it. I thought the football team could try and get out there a little bit and get some exposure in the community.

“(Applebee’s) was all for it. Their corporate headquarters was into it and everything we’ve asked Applebee’s to do, they’ve done.”

 

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