Mario is a UM and Christopher Columbus alum—and his wife Jessica is a Miami native, as well. Miami will always be home.
Started his career as a GA at Miami the final three years of the Butch era. Took a better job at Rutgers under Schiano when it presented itself.
Back to Miami for three years (2004-2006). Left UM to take another better gig; head coach at FIU.
Appeared headed BACK to Miami when that experiment failed; Saban jacked the plans with a better offer, where he spent four seasons coaching up their offensive line and earned title of assistant head coach.
Oregon called with a better gig—offensive coordinator—so he bailed Bama. Spent past two years as head coach at Oregon.
Cristobal has been climbing the coaching ladder for the past two decades—and knows he might've had his best season at Oregon, by way of Herbert and a Rose Bowl win.
Should the Miami job open at the end of 2020 and he is offered—there is zero chance he doesn't come back home. Especially after his stock slightly drops in Eugene without Herbert under center next fall.
Facts.
The BOT has 8 million reasons plus the other buyouts for Manny and his crew for him to not come here.
The ipf is the only recent upgrade we’ve had and it was done with a huge donation and the rest of the money came with *** kissing. Most of the important facility upgrades were done with big donations from boosters or former players.
Hence the Dwayne Johnson locker room. This school no longer supports the football program so why risk his future reputation as a coach by coming somewhere where he won’t get the same talent on the field or the same support to upgrade everything football related.
His wife loves Miami great. I bet his wife
Loves his paycheck more. If he shts the bed at Oregon then he has to come hear as a last resort.
He will then have to recruit without the bags or facilities or recent success the programs he’s coached at have had.
Think about what he would have to do next year if Manny is fired. It would mean our team had equal or less wins than last season. You think him coming here is going to erase any memory of the last 3 years to any elite recruits Just cause he showed up on campus after also failing at Oregon?
Y’all delusional AF.
Unfortunately as a program we are down to few options. Many of you think it can’t get any worse but it can.
Our best bet is that Manny balls the fck out. Or MARIO wins a natty and the BOT says fck it lets spend money and get him Home.
If Manny shts the bed and more chaos comes it will only prolong the status quo of our team being a laughing stock and only a top coach will entice any kid to come.
The BOT keeps ignoring the obvious reasons why elite coaches won’t come here. This school is not commiting the financial resources to recruiting and facilities nor staff support to compete With the schools that are snatching recruits from there own backyard.
I would love nothing more than a coach like Urban to come interview for this job only to come out in public and say why he didn’t take it.
Just look at the drama we’re having just with hiring Zo.
Imagine a coach coming here demanding sht be torn down and built brand new all over the athletic department. Imagine him saying. Need another 50 people on our staff and athletic training and nutrition side. I want a football only cafeteria and study center. And it wouldn’t stop there. And this imaginary coach would not be asking for anything that is out of the norm in college football. He would be asking for things that are already in place on a bunch of p5 teams. Especially the playoff ones or the ones that are knocking on the door.