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Mario Cristobal: tough interviewer

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Zbrod95 said:
Interesting take. A lot of other people who might have more experience might look at it as a leader realizing that he has a weakness in performance and moved to rectify said problem.
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The hires sucked. Then he took too long to replace them in some cases. I am glad we are bouncing the failing coaches, but his CSI / FBI / KGB level interviewing hasn't shown to weed them out up front ...
 
JayCane20 said:
They just sat there and watched Gattis twirl his **** around in front of the custodial staff for 6 hours.
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LOL. It won’t happen but I would love to hear the whole story about him and Xavier Worthy’s mom.


Gattis has to the CFB version of Mr Ripley.

Dude got hired by Saban at Bama and then promoted while there. Saban’s interviews include going to his house and meeting his wife and getting her appproval.
 
JayCane20 said:
They just sat there and watched Gattis twirl his **** around in front of the custodial staff for 6 hours.
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Sometimes, you get the sense Mario takes himself a little too seriously. Like, on the one hand, feeling out a coach is likely a good idea to see if philosophies and personality aligns, and I am sure seeing how they handle an apparently grueling interview is likely an indicator of their personality, but on the other hand, is a 9-10 hour interview really necessary?
 
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Angry Ibis said:
Cool.

He's sucked at interviewing at Miami since he's on nearly his second complete staff in 2 years with a sub .500 record.

Win football games.
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It wasn’t even Mario speaking dude you’re acting like it was his interview

I mean, I get the criticism of him and it’s deserved, but sometimes it’s not even in the right place.
 
The thought of our lunkhead corch putting candidates through the ringer like he's Bill Walsh or some cott**** body is really funny.
 
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24/7canes said:
the dude said they had a 4th year returning qb and they ended up wining a title . sounds like a smart guy to me. . Sounds like a guy that might get revisited. don't burn bridges keep building them.
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No they didn’t. They got smacked by Richmond in the Quarters that next year.
 
AlexCane said:
Sometimes, you get the sense Mario takes himself a little too seriously. Like, on the one hand, feeling out a coach is likely a good idea to see if philosophies and personality aligns, and I am sure seeing how they handle an apparently grueling interview is likely an indicator of their personality, but on the other hand, is a 9-10 hour interview really necessary?
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I agree. During the Josh Pate interview, Pate asked who's the biggest jokester on the staff and it threw Coach for a loop and he couldn't think of one. You could tell that his response took Pate by surprise because he probably didn't think that such a softball question would elicit such a response.
 
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Let’s clear up the timeline here. He interviewed at FIU but remained at App State then took the job at FIU after Armanti Edwards graduated. Which he mentioned as a reason he stayed. He later went back to App State with a promotion to AHC/OC and then a year later took over as Head Coach.

So it’s clear Mario liked him because he went after him a second time. Mario had his skills, identifying coaching talent is one of them. No coach hits on every hire so don’t give me the Gattis stuff but most of the time he hires good coaches. His failures are as a gameday coach, which has been discussed a million times and not in his assessment of coaches.
 
Hes like I aint recruiting like that or working that hard Im just an x and o guy, not the job for me. Boy aint about them relationships and texting kids at birth.
 
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