Our neighbors in Greenville have fallen on hard times, perhaps of their own doing. After a disappointing 5-7 finish in 2015, they made the surprise move of firing universally-beloved Ruffin McNeill, and then bumbling through a coaching search that ended with Duke offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery.
To say the Montgomery experience has been a disaster may be sugar coating it— the Pirates have finished 3-9 in each of his two years, falling from 76th (per S&P+) in McNeill’s swan song to 100th and 123rd in the Montgomery era.
Despite their recent failure, the Pirates are not far removed from being a viable ACC killer.