You know that they say: "Everything before the 'but' is meant to be ignored".
He might as well have been playing 'Hit em up' in the background of that quote.
I thought I read that Cristobal walked in to the Hecht, saw it was amateur hour, got an offer from Saban (who recognised how good a recruiter / OLine Coach he was) and bounced for the good of his career.
Obviously he was playing the long game.