The East Carolina baseball team was right where it should have been on Tuesday afternoon, hammering through a workout inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.

But seventh-year head coach Billy Godwin was inside the team offices with director of athletics Terry Holland as the duo announced a self-imposed two-week suspension for Godwin in the wake of an NCAA violation for providing impermissible housing to volunteer assistant coaches.

As the governing body of college sports weighs its penalty for the Pirate baseball program, ECU is being proactive, announcing Godwin will be suspended without pay from Feb. 1 to Feb. 14. He will be back with the team prior to the Pirates’ season opener Feb. 17 at home against Milwaukee.

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