In an era where recruiting ability is a lot less important than having NIL money, this would be a great hire. Belicheat has to do little recruiting and even then could just hire a bagman. I said it in a thread a couple days ago - the teams that are going to run cfb in the nil era are the ones that have Xs and Os focused HCs and deep pockets. Program builders are dinosaurs. Cristobal and Dabo are coaches in the wrong era.
But I’ll give one glimmer of hope. Dabo clearly refuses to change. Cristobal has outright said he’s going to supplement the class by going heavy in the portal. Now that’s not why we hired him but it’s what he needs to do to succeed. So that’s caveman evolution. He has to get elite X’s and O’s guys (not good track record) but maybe he can show a program builder HC still has a place in cfb if he can look at HS recruiting and portal recruiting as the same means to an end.