Holton Ahlers welcomed ECU Baseball great turned grad assistant coach for the Pirates, Bryant Packard.
Packard talked about playing minor league baseball, how Pirates head coach Cliff Godwin got him a job on his staff, how much he likes coaching and what the ECU program has to do to reach Omaha and the College World Series.
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