Meet East Carolina: A program with only one way to go

Photo by Greg Thompson/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesFor the second time since the turn of the century, the East Carolina football program finds itself in rebuild mode. Former coach Scottie Montgomery ran the Pirate ship aground in Greenville, winning a grand total of nine games in three seasons (three of those wins were against FBS bottom-dweller UConn). I mean, seriously... look at this:

Bill Connelly, https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2019/3/29/18278426/east-carolina-football-2019-preview-schedule-rosterThis was avoidable, though. The Pirates had a perfectly good, successful coach in Ruffin McNeill - a beloved son of the university and a great representative of the program. It…