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Mario Cristobal offers no discernable advantage

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Number1CanesFan said:
You're looking at it with orange and green glasses. You build a program and make it to the CFP. You then decide to leave all that you've built to go to your alma mater for a rebuild?

There's no guarantee for a happy outcome. Watch how many people turn on Mario if he loses a game he shouldn't that costs us going to the ACC title game.

Mario would be a great hire. He'd be throwing a lot away if he does come.
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Accurate, lol
 
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RiDLer80 said:
I know a majority of this board has an unhealthy obsession with bringing alumni home to save the program, but Mario is not what we need. He offers no tangible advantage for this program.

I hear everybody say, he'll fix the OL like he's the only person in the country that can recruit good o-linemen. The truth is, people say that about him because that's all he truly brings to the table. He has no system that

Fans will also talk about his recruiting. It's true; he's killing it right now, but we've seen time and time again that you need more than good players to win games. We've seen watched Miami for over a decade continually lose to lesser talented teams because of coaching ineptitude. Talent only gets you so far. L to Stanford this year, L's to Oregon State and Cal last year. Also, lets face it, he's taking advantage of an extremely down conference right now--USC, UCLA and Washington are all shells of themselves and he's feasting on the west coast. That wouldn't happen recruiting the southeast. He'd have to go up against Bama, UGA, Clemson, Ohio State etc. for recruits.

How about discipline? A hard-nosed guy like Mario must have a disciplined team. Nope. Oregon's currently sitting at 114th in the country in penalty yards per game--exactly one spot in front of your Miami Hurricanes.

How about offense? Mario has to have great offenses, right? Him being an offensive guy and all. 32nd ranked offense in the nation. For reference Miami is ranked 28th. His offense isn't bad, but it's consistently been underwhelming. The narrative regarding Justin Herbert and his time at Oregon was that the offense failed him. He was used incorrectly and it failed to showcase his talents. Mario has no offensive system so he'd need to make the correct hire there. We'd also have to hope he doesn't hamstring that OC either by playing a conservative style of football.

Mario would need the perfect OC and DC hires to succeed because he offers no schematic advantage on either side of the ball. He's your classic CEO type head coach. Think about all the top coaches in the country right now. All of them have a calling card on one side of the ball or the other. Saban on D, Kirby on D, Day on offense, Riley on offense, Gundy on offense etc. I could go on and on. Mario is not guru on either side of the ball which means he'd need big money coordinators to succeed here, and that scares me. That's why I'm all in on guys like Lane Kiffin or Hugh Freeze. At least you know with them one side of the ball will be taken care of.
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This should be bumped every end of season. This was spot on.
 
I said the same thing about his corching for a very long time. I gave him the benefit of the doubt this season, and he still crapped the bed while having a Heisman contending gunslinger and the #1 offense in the nation.

Only the meathead would secure such an offense and fail to take care of business on the defensive side of the ball. He should’ve fired Guidry by the 7th game at the latest and simplified the defense. It cost us our season.

Now we wait, as we do every postseason, for the slowest thinking and acting HC in CFB to make a decision on wether or not he’ll fire Guidry, and another month or two before he hires a new DC. His process is maddening.
 
PIPO said:
This should be bumped every end of season. This was spot on.
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Why?

This is an ignorant post.

You know what advantage Mario brings? The people with all the money at Miami he is tight with.

You want to see a completely irrelevent program like weve been past 20 years? Send Mario packing. If Mario isnt successful here, then good luck.

Miami was butter soft on a warm summer day when Mario got here. Mentally and physically. Terrible culture. 6'1 290 OL, devoid of real talent. He is trying to build Miami up to a top 10 program in a world that is run by SEC and BIG 10. His job has gotten harder.

I know this, in last 2 years we havent been beaten in trenches much at all when it was a regular occurance prior to him. Physically we hold up and beat most anyone we play at LOS. So I would say he has brought some advantage.
 
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Also I back in 2021 im
Pretty sure I said I wanted:

1.)Lane
2.)Freeze
3.)Mario

In that order so what do I know?

Freeze has been awful at Auburn, and Lane had a loaded team built for a
Playoff run this year, and fell flat on his face with losses to Kentucky and Florida.
 
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I don’t disagree with some of the things you say especially the physical aspect of the O-Line, culture and money guys.

But it also means he’s doing less with more in terms of the money part.

There is no stability in the program from a coaching perspective. He offers nothing outside the O-Line on game day because he’s neither an Offensive or defensive guy that can take over.

He gets consistently and has been consistently out coached on game days or in game prep over and over and over.

Elko brought defensive background when he was at Duke and look how he turned around TAMU with the same money that Jimbo had. Rhett at SMU, Key at GTech, Fran Brown in year 1 at Syracuse, Dabo at Clemson, etc, etc.

If you’re being honest, You can keep rattling off names of coaches before you get to Mario.

I want him to succeed. I like the guy but he’s massively underperformed here with on-field performance.
 
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gacaneaddict said:
Also I back in 2021 im
Pretty sure I said I wanted:

1.)Lane
2.)Freeze
3.)Mario

In that order so what do I know?

Freeze has been awful at Auburn, and Lane had a loaded team built for a
Playoff run this year, and fell flat on his face with losses to Kentucky and Florida.
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I went back and forth and in the end I didn’t follow my gut on Lane and I said Mario because of the recruiting, money guys and program build despite Lane being the better coach.

I picked Mario. I was wrong or at least so far.
 
gacaneaddict said:
Why?

This is an ignorant post.

You know what advantage Mario brings? The people with all the money at Miami he is tight with.

You want to see a completely irrelevent program like weve been past 20 years? Send Mario packing. If Mario isnt successful here, then good luck.

Miami was butter soft on a warm summer day when Mario got here. Mentally and physically. Terrible culture. 6'1 290 OL, devoid of real talent. He is trying to build Miami up to a top 10 program in a world that is run by SEC and BIG 10. His job has gotten harder.

I know this, in last 2 years we havent been beaten in trenches much at all when it was a regular occurance prior to him. Physically we hold up and beat most anyone we play at LOS. So I would say he has brought some advantage.
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I know you’re gonna get a lot of **** for this one but also I wasn’t a fan of the hire BUT the big picture stuff was we finally got some people mobilized to rebuild the foundation of the program

That was the bigger thing hopefully for the future I said at least Mario would have a plan and be allowed to work it. Not sure if it plays out how we hope or not

But one reason I was against Lane. We would have been a much better team in 2022 and 2023 (just my opinion) but he’s not a guy you bring in if you want long term changes

But I also wanted Freeze so what the **** do I know
 
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