{"id":1748423,"date":"2022-09-02T17:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1748423"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:21:20","slug":"former-ecu-coach-ruffin-mcneill-to-face-former-team-as-nc-state-assistant-while-forming-special-bond-with-dave-doeren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1748423","title":{"rendered":"Former ECU coach Ruffin McNeill to face former team as NC State assistant while forming special bond with Dave Doeren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-ecu-coach-ruffin-mcneill-to-face-former-team-as-nc-state-assistant-while-forming-special-bond-with-dave-doeren\/20445298\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ecu\/2015\/10\/23\/15002064\/15002064-1445581006-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Ruffin McNeill Pic-Post Temple\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>East Carolina is Ruffin McNeill&#8217;s alma mater. Being the Pirates&#8217; head coach was his dream job. But after six years in Greenville, and winning the third most games in school history, McNeill was blindsided when he was fired after a 5-7 season in 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-ecu-coach-ruffin-mcneill-to-face-former-team-as-nc-state-assistant-while-forming-special-bond-with-dave-doeren\/20445298\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-ecu-coach-ruffin-mcneill-to-face-former-team-as-nc-state-assistant-while-forming-special-bond-with-dave-doeren\/20445298\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former ECU coach Ruffin McNeill to face former team as NC State assistant while forming special bond with Dave Doeren\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Carolina is Ruffin McNeill&#8217;s alma mater. Being the Pirates&#8217; head coach was his dream job. But after six years in Greenville, and winning the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}