Cristobal was on his way towards being considered an awesome young hc until his last year at fiu.
I'm sure that team with which Mario " was on his way towards being considered an awesome young hc until his last year at fiu" was sure glad that team did not consider him then; they avoided a disaster that UM should also avoid. This is one reason why one shouldn't hire a non-Coordinator exclusive position coach as your head coach when the success of the team might have come from that team's Coordinator. The fact is that Cristobal got that job was strictly because of UM soldado Pete Garcia from UM who gave him that job he got when fiu had a decent pool of players already.
Once roughneck Mario (he's not good with staffers on his team) lost his Offensive coordinator Scott Satterfield, who actually went on to bigger and better things higher now than Cristobal now, Mario was lost and swiftly went back down to a 3-9. Had dude also been able to keep his staff together, mainly OC Satterfield, he wouldn't have fallen so precipitously. Subsequently, Mario was fired, deservedly so by Pete Garcia.
Y'know I've done a LOT of reading on that 2012 FIU team (more than I probably should but I'm a ********* like that.) It seems that, in addition to the loss of TY Hilton, they had significant injuries at QB and elsewhere all year long. A place like FIU can't really overcome that. From the reading, most of the CFB world was pretty surprised when Mario was canned considering the work he had done the two years prior. Most lay the blame at Pete Garcia's feet.
I still don't want him as HC here.
If you're a great recruiter, like people claim Mario is, you SHOULD be able to overcome the loss of a few players in the Sun Belt. This should be especially true if you're in your 5th year, and you're recruiting in the most talent rich area in the world. I'm sure the other Sun Belt teams faced some adversity in 2012 too.
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