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Josh Pate On Miami's Future Under Mario Cristobal (Late Kick Cut)

Swampcity said:
That's what the fired Nebraska coach said upon leaving UCF.
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You’re actually comparing Frost to Mario as a recruiter?! And comparing a place in the middle of nowhere to one of the most fertile recruiting
areas in the county. Unbelievable
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
I don't see how it was avoidable. Manny left a dumpster fire of a locker room and a big portion of those kids didn't buy into Mario's "my way or the highway" attitude—similar to 1995 when those guys weren't buying Butch Davis' iron fist approach after the last few disaster years (culturally) under Dennis Erickson.

To correct something you have to break it and reset it. This program needed a bottom-out year to flush out the dead weight and to set a new tone culturally. Had they eked buy and found ways to beat aTm, MTSU, Duke or UNC and this is an 8-2, maybe some of these destined-for-the-portal guys don't end up leaving and it changes the trajectory of things.

Listened to Ed Reed and some of those foundation guys talk about how 1997 left a bitter taste in their mouth and how it fueled the work ethic over the next few years. They talked about 47-0 for years and this program had to live through it to build back better (for lack of a stupid phrase).

Mario had to lay down his foundation, his culture and his process for 2022, **** the results. Would've been nice is the kids responded earlier, but it was a tough love approach that brought on some feedback and resistance early on.

Seemed (for the first time) to turn a slim corner last week at Georgia Tech. In a perfect world, Miami wins out (pipe dream, but at least get to 6-6), get to a bowl, get Brown more practice and then get busy building for next year—but this year had to bottom out to break a lot of lazy players that needed to be broken. Some will respond, the rest will leave, but Miami as a program will be better in the long run for what we just had to suffer through in 2022.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly. Please believe me when I say that. But everything you said is still possible with winning 8 or 9 games. He failed his first season and that’s okay.
 
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