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Josh Pate: The Truth About Mario Cristobal

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Josh Pate put the spotlight on Mario Cristobal for the latest episode of The College Football Show. A transcript of that discussion is below:

The Truthteller series continues tonight—one of our most popular segments every spring—because we just point our finger at someone, a program, or a topic and try to tell the truth about it.

And guess where the spinner landed tonight? Mario Cristobal. Not even Miami—just Mario.

So let’s tell the truth about Mario Cristobal.

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still cant believe the run we made after that devastating embarrassment at SMU

A hair away from yet another offseason of hopes and prayers on fixing something we can’t solve

Feels a bit like 2000 when we knew something was left on the table but I think we are the team to beat in 2026 just like 2001

I’ve not felt that way in over 20 years
 
While I was hopeful, when Mario was hired, I could still be classified as a somewhat of a skeptic.

This post encapsulates my opinion of the chronic obsessive haters (you know who you are) and their pathological hate-spamming on this site. Chronic posting that made most threads practically unreadable for the first 3/4 of the season.

“So part of the doubt, part of the criticism—it wasn’t analysis. It was hope. People were hoping he wouldn’t succeed, and they dressed that hope up as logic.

There are some who genuinely believed he wouldn’t win there—but there’s another group that didn’t know, they were just hoping they were right.”
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
While I was hopeful, when Mario was hired, I could still be classified as a somewhat of a skeptic.

This post encapsulates my opinion of the chronic obsessive haters (you know who you are) and their pathological hate-spamming on this site. Chronic posting that made most threads practically unreadable for the first 3/4 of the season.

“So part of the doubt, part of the criticism—it wasn’t analysis. It was hope. People were hoping he wouldn’t succeed, and they dressed that hope up as logic.

There are some who genuinely believed he wouldn’t win there—but there’s another group that didn’t know, they were just hoping they were right.”
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Mike does Saban run similarly physical practices? Wondering if that what is influencing Mario’s outlier practice physically. For years watching Alabama, Georgia (especially against each other) just looked physically different than other teams. This year Miami looked like that, especially for the world to see in the playoffs. Elite talent, extraordinary physically, trench control and a few super stud skill guys sprinkled in is a recipe for a very high floor year over year.
 
Anyone who says Cristobal at this moment is not a top 5 head coach in college football would need to explain to me what criteria they’re using. Take what he did at Oregon, add in the last four years here, and the only ones ahead of him would be Cignetti, Day and Smart in my book.
 
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Mike does Saban run similarly physical practices? Wondering if that what is influencing Mario’s outlier practice physically. For years watching Alabama, Georgia (especially against each other) just looked physically different than other teams. This year Miami looked like that, especially for the world to see in the playoffs. Elite talent, extraordinary physically, trench control and a few super stud skill guys sprinkled in is a recipe for a very high floor year over year.
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Since I don’t attend practices, for our team or for other teams, I can’t really comment with certainty on how we practice versus other teams. Just have to take other people’s word for it.

But it doesn’t take much effort to see our teams look significantly different, i.e. much bigger and fit, as opposed to how we’ve looked in the years past. There’s no doubt about that. We look like the top SEC or Big Ten teams. We definitely pass the eye test.
 
Saw this yesterday and followed his Miami takes since Mario got hired, he's right about people were hoping it wouldn't work. Now that very thing they were worried about is happening and its that simple. Everyone knew when he got hired it was pretty much over in terms of recruiting.
 
A story: when Mario was first hired. I was at Costco, about to load the car up, and an older guy walked by and noticed my hurricane plate. He said Miami made the right hire. He was talking about his association with Alabama, and while he talked I guessed he was a big time booster there. He remembered Mario at Alabama and said MC was a beast of a recruiter, he never stops. He said it won't belong before Miami was back as a power again. I thanked him and said I hope you are right. End story.
 
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