Cliff Godwin recaps 2024 season, talks transfer portal/NIL, and looks ahead

Hoist The Colours sat down with East Carolina head baseball coach Cliff Godwin following the Pirates' 2024 season, which included a 46-17 overall record and a fifth straight American Athletic Conference regular season title, and a fifth regional hosting bid in the last six seasons.
Godwin and HTC host Stephen Igoe took a brief look back at the 2024 season, before discussing the ongoing changing landscape of college athletics, including how NIL and the transfer portal has impacted ECU baseball, and college baseball in general. Godwin also addressed South Carolina's interest in him for its recent head coach opening, in addition to looking ahead to 2025, and giving injury updates on ECU players Ryley Johnson, Walker Barron and Jake Hunter.

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We love you coach

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THATS MY COACH RIGHT THERE!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[@jeffcollins5188]

Forward

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We know

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Wake? They are watching the same as us.

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Sitting around the pool when you get a call from a player saying he's abandoning his commitment to ECU doesn't sound like you were working your tail off every day.

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I bet 8th grade was the best 4 years of your life.

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@@jfc3691 . No, it was ECU. We want the same things, I have no doubt about that, but there are times when we must challenge the status quo, as I firmly believe Cliff would agree. We are a family at ECU, but sometimes you have to call out even your most beloved family members when they need it.

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The Lord has better things to do than be involved with college baseball. Get that straight in your mind and move on.

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Coach, our players played like a bunch of F-ing Ps in the conference Tournament and the final game in the Regional, that's why you heard that from F-ing Evansville. Own it buttercups.

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Join the club Coach, all of us have to work our tails off. Enough with the condescending attitude.