Coastal Carolina

College Baseball Preview: Coastal Carolina (AUDIO)

Coastal Carolina was the only team from South Carolina to make the NCAA D1 Baseball Tournament last season. The Chanticleers went to the ECU Regional where they were eventually eliminated by the home team in the final game of the regional. The Chants finished the year 39-20-1. They were picked fifth in the Sun Belt …

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#STRecruiting: #CCU HC Tim Beck pleased with first signing class (AUDIO)

When Tim Beck was introduced as the fourth head football coach in CCU history, he wasn’t left with a lot of time to cobble together a recruiting class. As a matter of fact, he had less than three weeks to prepare for the early signing day in December. To his credit, Beck and the staff …

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#STRecruiting: #CCU QB Grayson McCall has reportedly withdrawn from the transfer portal

Coastal Carolina football celebrated New Year’s Day with quite a piece of recruiting news: Grayson McCall is coming back to school. McCall, according to multiple reports, withdrew from the transfer portal on Sunday and will reportedly return to Conway.  The Indian Trail, North Carolina, native played in CCU’s bowl loss to East Carolina last week, …

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Swash buckled. #CCU gets bowled over by ECU 53-29 in Birmingham (AUDIO)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala: Heading into Tuesday’s TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl between Coastal Carolina and East Carolina, conventional wisdom was that both teams would have to score and score a lot. The Pirates adhered to that philosophy more so than the Chanticleers, as ECU posted a 53-29 victory on a chilly night at Protective Stadium in downtown Birmingham. …

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#CCU doubles up on NSD with a recruiting and bowl update (AUDIO)

Coastal Carolina football presented a double feature on Wednesday afternoon, with new head coach Tim Beck discussing recruiting and interim head coach Chad Staggs speaking about bowl preparation. And from Beck’s perspective, the Chanticleers’ signing class is similar to the Allstate “Mayhem” commercial about pee-wee football. The class may be small, but he believes it …

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#CCU QB McCall to enter transfer portal following Birmingham Bowl

Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall has announced via Twitter he will enter the transfer portal following the Chanticleers appearance in the Birmingham Bowl. McCall, the three-time Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, has amassed a 28-4 record as a starter at Coastal Carolina and holds the school record for touchdown passes (78). With McCall …

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Cliff Ellis gets career win #900 in a blowout of Regent University 102-39 (AUDIO) #CCU

CONWAY: Coastal Carolina head men’s basketball coach Cliff Ellis recently celebrated his 77th birthday, and if his initial plans had come to fruition, Ellis would be in his third decade of retirement. “I had planned to retire when I was fifty-five,” Ellis said on Saturday following Coastal’s 102-39 win over Regent. “I said I’m going …

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Coastal Carolina’s succession plan pays off in quick football hire (Updated w/Tim Beck AUDIO)

Theoretically, Coastal Carolina wasted little time in finding its replacement for head football coach Jamey Chadwell. However, in practice, they’ve been keeping an eye on their target for years. On Monday, the university announced NC State offensive coordinator Tim Beck as its fourth head coach in the program’s history. Beck, who replaces Jamey Chadwell, comes …

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#CCU heads to Birmingham to meet East Carolina for bowl season

A hectic weekend for CCU football came to a close late Sunday afternoon as the Chanticleers learned they would be facing East Carolina in the Birmingham Bowl on December 27th. The contest will be the first ever between Coastal and East Carolina. It will be Coastal’s third straight bowl appearance since transitioning to the FBS. …

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#CCU moves quickly to replace Chadwell by naming Tim Beck as the school’s 4th head football coach

It’s been an adventurous twenty-four hours for Coastal Carolina football. On Saturday, the Chanticleers dropped a 45-26 decision to Troy in the Sun Belt Conference championship game, with rumors swirling that head coach Jamey Chadwell would be leaving for another job. On Sunday, those reports turned into reality as Chadwell was named the new coach …

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Troy dominates #CCU 45-26 to win Sun Belt Conference championship

Troy scored the first 31 points of the game and cruised to an easy 45-26 victory over Coastal Carolina on Saturday to win the Sun Belt Conference championship. Grayson McCall started at quarterback for the Chanticleers after missing a month with a foot injury. Statistically, he had a solid game, throwing for 319 yards and …

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As #CCU readies for the Sun Belt championship game, McCall’s status is still unclear (AUDIO)

Coastal Carolina head football coach Jamey Chadwell wasted no time in answering the most important question on the “Grand Strand” this week. “Grayson (McCall) will be a game time decision tomorrow,” Chadwell said during Friday’s Sun Belt Championship game press conference. “Need to go through warmups and see how he responds to the treatment that …

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