According to our AD, he was mainly released because he hadn't won any conference championships in the last three years. Here are their records for the last four seasons:South Carolina has beaten ECU from 2011-2014 ... ECU has always played tough and almost pulls it out.
Ruffin has owned the state of North Carolina for the most part. there was a joke where folks would say ECU should be the ACCs north Carolina representative. ECU put up an "our state" billboard one year.
firing Ruffin made no sense.
2012: 8-5
2013: 10-3
2014: 8-5
2015: 5-7
Ruffin McNeill is one heck of a recruiter and everything you would want out of a coach. Not to mention he is a former ECU player that actually cares about the school and the program. I don't know who ECU thinks will come in that will take them to the promise land immediately but their expectations are ridiculous. When a black man is hired in any position of authority, the standards are always higher than our counterparts. We are always given a short rope to produce. No excuses here just facts.