Agreed - 2015 was an unexpected disaster and embarrassing to go from the Mighty Orange Bowl Champs to a laughingstock in the span of a season. Interesting that the same excuses that derailed 2015 are ignored by the CGC haters in 2019, with a far-less experienced team.
The big difference between 2015 and this year is that even in 2015 we were competitive. We lost 5 games by a touchdown or less. We only got blown-out (+14pts) that season by Clemson and Miami. We could have easily won 2-3 more games that year with any bit of luck.
We've been blown-out this year by:
Temple, UNC, Duke and Clemson.
2015 was bad, but 2019 is an order of magnitude worse, we aren't even competitive now. Luck would not have changed the outcome of any game this year except Citadel.
CGC gets a mulligan this year-but next year if he doesn't show some serious improvement it will be a track record that he's a bad coach.
He took a 10-4 temple team and they went 7-6 the next year and he improved it by 1 win the next year.
He took a 7-6 GT team and will most likely make it 1-11 the next year. If he only improves it by 1 win next year . . .well heads should roll.
Hopefully things get turned around, hopefully he has success. Hopefully we stop getting blown out and are at least competitive this year . . .