Mario Cristobal talks Syracuse loss

DMoney

Sunday at 7:34 PM 2 min read

Mario Cristobal met with reports following a crushing 42-38 loss to Syracuse. A summary of his comments is below:

On what Syracuse did to hurt Miami: They made the contested catch about 80-90% of the time. We had a difficult time covering them. The ball was out quick. We affected the quarterback early and then didn't affect him much as the game went on.

I haven't seen the Jalen Rivers penalty. He got called for a hold and that was a really big one. So a couple penalties really hurt us. I can't tell what they called with the personal foul there at the end. But I guess it related back to, they were executing a little bit better than we were. We were trying to play some man, we played some zone. You name it. We mixed it up as much as we could, and we did not have much success. We blew a couple assignments back there, too. And then they ran the ball more effectively than we should have allowed them to.

On the decision to kick the field goal: We used analytics. It was outside the ten-yard line with four minutes to go. The call was to get the points and get a stop. We had to get a stop anyways with four minutes. If the clock was run down more, it was a heavy go.

On losing a 21-0 lead: It's really, really disappointing. And like we always tell the team, we eat it all together. There's no hiding from accountability. We accomplished a lot this season, but we wanted this one. We wanted the opportunity that this one could lead to. And we came up short. That's on all of us, starting with myself. We don'y shy away from it.

On recruiting: I don't think that ever stops. You just never let it interfere with game planning and preparing everything else. We felt really prepared coming into this game. It showed early. Then some chinks started showing up. Credit to Syracuse for putting it together.

On keeping the team focused: You reemphasize reality. This tam won 10 football games against some really good opponents. And this last game came all the way down to the wire. This team really worked hard and busted its butt to put its best foot forward.

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90scane

Monday at 1:18 PM

Rellyrell said:
If this is ur response, then u’ve missed the entire point.

Your point wasn't clear then. You said it only took Fran 1 year to build a roster then say it is going to take Mario 5 to build a championship roster. The difference is pretty important. 9-3 in the ACC isn't a championship roster.

The bigger question is HOW did Syracuse score the same against Miami as Holycross? UNLV was OT and all others gave up fewer points to Cuse than Miami. That is the question of the day. Talent is better at Miami than ALL of the others.

Rellyrell

Monday at 1:45 PM

90scane said:
Your point wasn't clear then. You said it only took Fran 1 year to build a roster then say it is going to take Mario 5 to build a championship roster. The difference is pretty important. 9-3 in the ACC isn't a championship roster.

The bigger question is HOW did Syracuse score the same against Miami as Holycross? UNLV was OT and all others gave up fewer points to Cuse than Miami. That is the question of the day. Talent is better at Miami than ALL of the others.

The point is, the narrative of needing 5 yrs to build a roster to compete & play for championships on any level (Conference or Nat’l) is a made up CIS narrative to protect Mario.

We didn’t hear this narrative for Golden, Shannon, Richt, or Diaz. I threw in championship b/c that’s the narrative of CIS, not football fans. Real CFB fans know that u can build & sustain a roster w/in 2 cycles, 3 at the most; ****, & w/ the advent of the Transfer portal, we’re seeing it w/in 1.

U’re absolutely right about the defense giving up that amount of points to Cuse, & I highly that in a private chat. The fact is, if we didn’t have Ward, we lose to Cal, VA Tech, UL as well b/c the def was leaky af, despite having a huge talent gap.

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ShakaZulu

Yesterday at 9:16 AM

Atom Atlas said:
But...but...but.... It's not Coaching... Nope....Dats what I keep hearing...

It shouldn't take 5 years in the modern era of CFB at a place like Miami who is spending money for the first time with NIL, transfer portal and Miami being in the most fertile recruiting area in the nation. Those Canes fans who say different and Miami needs 5 years, they are delusional! As you said, the current 1st time and 1 year HC at Syracuse took the roster mostly left by Dino Baber and went 9 and 3 with it. Syracuse isn't spending money like Miami. They aren't recruiting like Miami and getting transfer like Miami. Yet, they looked prepared and coached well pretty much for all their games, this year. That can't be said about Miami despite going 9 and 0! We saw the issue with the defense since last year with Guidry! Not setting the edge, gap integrity, blown assignment, also out of position, poor tackling, lack of speed at certain position, FB IQ and etc.

harphong

Yesterday at 10:21 AM

BS85 said:
There's a reason i haven't changed my profile pic

HEARD. FELT. ALIGNED.

JHallCanes

Yesterday at 10:25 AM

Rellyrell said:
The point is, the narrative of needing 5 yrs to build a roster to compete & play for championships on any level (Conference or Nat’l) is a made up CIS narrative to protect Mario.

We didn’t hear this narrative for Golden, Shannon, Richt, or Diaz. I threw in championship b/c that’s the narrative of CIS, not football fans. Real CFB fans know that u can build & sustain a roster w/in 2 cycles, 3 at the most; ****, & w/ the advent of the Transfer portal, we’re seeing it w/in 1.

U’re absolutely right about the defense giving up that amount of points to Cuse, & I highly that in a private chat. The fact is, if we didn’t have Ward, we lose to Cal, VA Tech, UL as well b/c the def was leaky af, despite having a huge talent gap.

If it takes a coach a few years to build a playoff contending program year in year out that’s fine with me

But that doesn’t mean you get to go ahead and get blown out by MTSU and forget to take a knee when a game is over either

Good coaches can immediately make their programs competitive even if it takes them a few years to get over the hump

We are a few years in with the best QB I’ve seen here and are just now approaching the hump like we are coming back from the death penalty or some ****

hoops156

Yesterday at 11:00 AM

90scane said:
Your point wasn't clear then. You said it only took Fran 1 year to build a roster then say it is going to take Mario 5 to build a championship roster. The difference is pretty important. 9-3 in the ACC isn't a championship roster.

The bigger question is HOW did Syracuse score the same against Miami as Holycross? UNLV was OT and all others gave up fewer points to Cuse than Miami. That is the question of the day. Talent is better at Miami than ALL of the others.

9-3 for cuse is a dam good year esp in year 1. it wasnt like he was left a loaded roster. we went 5-7 in year 1 with a roster that went 21-15 over three years (which is better than what Fran inherited).

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