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What does Mario have to do?

Bmacthe1 said:
Genuine question here don’t want to be labeled a homer or doomer. After last years disaster of a season, a complete failure of a season. What is reasonable and realistically the course of action for Mario. Last years class was amazing in general but especially in terms of needs on a good amount of areas for this roster. At the time of this post the recruiting juggernaut that we saw for a single season has calmed down and has been lack luster to the point we saw it at. To get to my point, recruting wise (high school & portal), coaching hires and himself what will it take to flip the program in anyway we haven’t seen in years
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Just ******* win.

This is not rocket science. We'll know, with our eyeballs, if there is to be any improvement. Win-loss obviously important, but we need to tighten up the ******* ship too, 5-7 is one thing, but 5-7 and be embarrassing doing it? nah, I ain't about that and if we see it again, everyone can go...even with win-loss improvement, it'd be but an anomaly if we still can't continue drives and convert third downs, stop third downs, stop someone in the red zone, score in the red zone, committing drive killing penalties in all three phases of the game. Winning against the teams we should beat would be nice as well.
 
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8-9wins, finish strong with a bowl win.

6-7 wins with a bowl loss and all this is perpetuated to unbearable levels.
What’s it called in aviation?…The death spiral?
 
Bmacthe1 said:
Genuine question here don’t want to be labeled a homer or doomer. After last years disaster of a season, a complete failure of a season. What is reasonable and realistically the course of action for Mario. Last years class was amazing in general but especially in terms of needs on a good amount of areas for this roster. At the time of this post the recruiting juggernaut that we saw for a single season has calmed down and has been lack luster to the point we saw it at. To get to my point, recruting wise (high school & portal), coaching hires and himself what will it take to flip the program in anyway we haven’t seen in years
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He needs to win 10 games this season.
 
Home Slice said:
Continue to work his *** off and eventually become a consistent top 10 team and better, preferably sooner than later. Go Canes 🏈
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Just work hard hasn’t been the standard…

The fans showed up against FSU to watch FSU practice in front of our recruits…

And it happened over and over at home…

The team and coaching staff were unwatchable.
 
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Yoyo82 said:
Zero blowout losses
9 wins
Dynamic offense/exciting product to watch - even when we lose
Well coached team on gameday
Stop wasting timeouts
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Mario has been a head coach for a number of years, I think his time management is one of his attributes at this point. Like a calling card..
 
Win at least 8 games 6 games on our schedule are extremely winnable. Then all he has to do is when 2 of the remaining 6 which should not be a stretch.
 
How about a couple of in conference wins via blowouts. to me that would show the whole package from coaching to game planning, depth and some excitement looking to the future.
 
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Highline17 said:
Win 8 games, and they can’t all be like the Virginia win.

Be competitive in our prime time games, no blowouts

Would like to see TVD under Dawson to get back to lashlee form

Those are the bare minimum if we want to show improvement to recruits and to the fanbase.
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I remember when Cristobal was hired, the narrative was that he'd take an over a soft 7-5 team from Diaz and that an "alpha male" coach like him would easily win 8-9 games in year 1 with the weak schedule. Year 2 was supposed to be 10+ wins. Year 3 was going to be playoffs. And now the expectations have been downgraded to thinking 8 wins in year 2 will be successful and is the minimum needed to get recruiting back on track.

Don't know why people would think UM isn't the best job in the world, we have a very accommodating fanbase that will gladly lower expectations each year for the right coach.
 
LULZ at this responses. It's okay to lose to this team or that team, just hope we do not get blown out, and 8 or 9 wins is a success. Holy cow, if Mario is some great coach like the brain trust thinks he is then he needs to be in the ACC championship game, period. Anything else is failure. He needs to be ina position to be in the college playoffs. I know, but, but, but... No buts, he makes $8M, he has NIL money, he is at his school, he has his coaches, he revamped his staff, he is Mr. Recruiting. Mario is supposed to crush it here, so why is the expectation 8 or 9 games? Why is losing to FSU, Clemson... as a given okay?

If that is the expectation why spend $8M for something we could get a lost less? .500 coaches are a dime a dozen, Mario needs to prove himself this year, no losses to inferior teams, they should be blowouts, and he should beat any and every team on our schedule.
 
1.) Win. It shouldn’t be hard to improve off of 5 wins with a weak *** schedule playing in the ACC. 9 wins should definitely be the goal this year.

2.) Keep his **** nose out of the offense. Only say he should have is helping with the development of the OL.

3.) The team actually looks like they give a **** and actually look prepared from week to week.

4.) Shouldn’t be getting blown out by anybody on our schedule. If he gets his *** handed to him by FSU again, his *** belongs on the hot seat.

Overall, the guy has to show dramatic improvement on the field. He makes way too much money for 5 win seasons. He’s paid amongst the best in college football, so Miami should be making strides to be amongst the top 10 teams in football.
 
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Wario Cristobum said:
I remember when Cristobal was hired, the narrative was that he'd take an over a soft 7-5 team from Diaz and that an "alpha male" coach like him would easily win 8-9 games in year 1 with the weak schedule. Year 2 was supposed to be 10+ wins. Year 3 was going to be playoffs. And now the expectations have been downgraded to thinking 8 wins in year 2 will be successful and is the minimum needed to get recruiting back on track.

Don't know why people would think UM isn't the best job in the world, we have a very accommodating fanbase that will gladly lower expectations each year for the right coach.
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2021: Any competent coach should win 10 games at Miami … if you don’t hate Manny, you hate Miami, root against us to root for us…

2023: Coker and Shalala left the program in such bad shape, Mario will need at least 5 years to repair the damage… have patience… your negative words hurt
 
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If Mario Cristobal is any good, he wins 9 games and he’s competitive in his losses. The ACC is not some juggernaut of a conference and you get your toughest non-conference opponent in A&M at home.

What was witnessed last year was an utter joke and embarrassment and that was on MC from his terrible coaching hires to his gameday mismanagement. Hope he improves as a HC because 2022 was as terrible as it could be for a veteran head coach.
 
Wario Cristobum said:
I remember when Cristobal was hired, the narrative was that he'd take an over a soft 7-5 team from Diaz and that an "alpha male" coach like him would easily win 8-9 games in year 1 with the weak schedule. Year 2 was supposed to be 10+ wins. Year 3 was going to be playoffs. And now the expectations have been downgraded to thinking 8 wins in year 2 will be successful and is the minimum needed to get recruiting back on track.

Don't know why people would think UM isn't the best job in the world, we have a very accommodating fanbase that will gladly lower expectations each year for the right coach.
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Very true! He failed as bad as you can fail
in year 1.
 
Bmacthe1 said:
Genuine question here don’t want to be labeled a homer or doomer. After last years disaster of a season, a complete failure of a season. What is reasonable and realistically the course of action for Mario. Last years class was amazing in general but especially in terms of needs on a good amount of areas for this roster. At the time of this post the recruiting juggernaut that we saw for a single season has calmed down and has been lack luster to the point we saw it at. To get to my point, recruting wise (high school & portal), coaching hires and himself what will it take to flip the program in anyway we haven’t seen in years
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Bmacthe1 said:
Genuine question here don’t want to be labeled a homer or doomer. After last years disaster of a season, a complete failure of a season. What is reasonable and realistically the course of action for Mario. Last years class was amazing in general but especially in terms of needs on a good amount of areas for this roster. At the time of this post the recruiting juggernaut that we saw for a single season has calmed down and has been lack luster to the point we saw it at. To get to my point, recruting wise (high school & portal), coaching hires and himself what will it take to flip the program in anyway we haven’t seen in years
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  • 8-4 or better
  • Don't lose to Miami-Ohio, Bethune, or Temple.
This is the watermark line. He hasn't done **** yet but this is his starting point. Our job is to not bust on the first win or sip any of that media-hype Kool-Aid.
 
Mario could sell ice to an eskimo. Imagine what he can do if he wins 8+ games (which he 100% should), gets TVD back in the mix as a round 1/round 2 NFL pick (again should happen), gets LT to play like a round 1 NFL pick (should happen), and has freshman contribute at a high level (Francis, Bain, Fletcher, Brown, etc.).
 
JgDaCane said:
Anything less then 8 wins this year is a failure in my book. That's us giving him losses in Clemson, FSU, A&M, & one more. That's beyond fair imo.
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Spot on right here. I feel like it has been said every year for the past 15 or so years but this really is the biggest year for our program in recent memory. Mario has a chance to put Miami right back on the course to national prominence with a good year. 8+ wins and looking like we belong in the losses and the momentum will be huge. Mario recruiting with actual momentum will be a sight to see if he can make things happen this year. If TVD bounces back and the OL is what we think it will be and we can shock with 10 wins?!? All bets are off.

Conversely, if we win 7 or under, we could be screwed as a program for the foreseeable future. No hope to sell and continued negative recruiting against us, with other programs starting to get it together in the NIL space and that may be to much for Mario to overcome.
 
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