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Mario Cristobal on GT loss: “You’ve gotta be a grown man and own it”

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My take is Mario is FOB to say the least. He is NOT a man of his word but masquerading as a head coach but he's only a **** good recruiter. He's says he will play the best man whether a senior or freshman and we all know that's simply not true. This team has certainly digressed this year. Very little player development, stupid penalties galore, and his teams seem unprepared too many times. The guy NEVER takes full ownership for his blunders therefore a man of ZERO character. For all you homers that think MARIO is the answer good for you as everyone is entitled to their opinion. If Mario can't close the deal here by winning the ACC Championship I think it will haunt him big time. Recruits are not stupid and they can clearly see what he represents along with other coaching staffs across the Country. Next year's schedule is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult than the cakewalk one we've had this year. I also see many including myself critical of the offensive and defense coordinators. Well, who the heck hired these coaches? No other than our beloved Mario. I truly hope he becomes successful at UM but I just don't see it. Cam definitely has his faults but he's the best player we've had in ages. Mario better find another Cam next year because he's going to need one. The man should NEVER be allowed to have the final say on any critical decision during any game because he's not quipped mentally to make a sound decision. Hopefully we learn from the fiasco in Atlanta but one thing is for certain. Almost every game Mario gets soundly outcoached even though he has better talent.
 
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Ucrazy said:
Hey Mario! You & your staff were out coached yet again. The coaching on this team is average at best. ******* embarrassing!
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I said the same thing before the half.

And don't know **** about football.

What I DO know is fighting. They were better prepared, and wanted it much more than out players.

WHO in **** is lighting up our team before kickoff? Rip Van Winkle?

Why does it take 4th Quarter heroics to light up our team?

Much better to bury opponents faces into the mud in the first quarter - and keep your foot on their necks until the clock winds down to zero.

Yeah - we got a top QB - but I saw a lot of bad angles, pizzpoor angles of pursuit, pizzpoor tackling, and confusion on coverage.

We need a backfield and we need some game planning and preparation.

Our defense pretty much sucks.
 
DMoney said:
Mario Cristobal met with reporters after the Canes' 28-23 loss to Georgia Tech. Here is everything he had to say:

On the Georgia Tech pass defense: They did a good job playing coverage with some of our stuff. We failed at some routine plays. It falls on coaches and players equally, but we had some drops in critical situations. Coverage wise, they mixed some things up. The bye week certainly helped them find some tells that helped with the underneath stuff.

They were keeping everything in front. Sometimes you just gotta pound the ball away and make it a slower, not as exciting game, but put points on the board and sustain drives. But we didn't do that. Credit to them, they just did a better job on third down and fourth down than we did.

On Georgia Tech’s rushing game: They did what they do. They run a counter. They run a power sweep. They run some split zone. They run some wide zone. They got the ball off the edge several times. Not only on sweeps, sometimes on outside zones. Some of it was busts. Some of it was just them playing really good. Sometimes it was getting an extra hat there and we’ve got to make an adjustment to get one there. So it falls on all of us, the way they ran the football, knowing that they were banged up at quarterback. They did a better job than we did.

On the disappointment of losing to a team with an injured quarterback: Extremely, extremely disappointing. As you can imagine, the entire locker room is really upset, down, disappointed. You have to own it. You can't sugar coat this or that. We didn't do a good enough job. We knew it was going to be a great atmosphere. We had a pretty good feel for what to do and how to do it. The routine stuff that we're good at doing did not show up. At the end, we certainly had a chance with the ball to go and take the lead again, but we turned it over.

We gotta own every bit of it, all of us. In this profession, when you take one on the chin like that, you gotta be a grown man, you gotta own it. There's no finger pointing. You don't talk about it very much, you just go do something about it. We have a bye week with everything in front of us to play for, to do something about it. We all feel sick to the point where it drives us to be better. Because certainly that was not our best football.

On the offensive struggles: It's a slow-paced game, but I don't think that should be used as a reason to be out of rhythm. I think we got ourselves, for the most part, in third and manageable. And we didn't get it done. The fourth and short, that's a play that we've been really getting. We turn the ball over to them, I believe it resulted in points as well. All the things that we've been doing good, we didn't do today. And on the flip side, [Georgia Tech] did really, really well.

On being aggressive with two-point conversions and fourth downs: You take the two points late in the third quarter. You want to be able to make it a game. That's exactly what the chart says and how we want to come back and be able to put ourselves in position to win. We don't second guess that one at all. The 4th and 3 early in the game, we felt very confident about our fourth down package. We felt that we had something there that we could not only have a first down on but score on. We've been aggressive all year. We were aggressive today, but that one did not work out.

On the reaction to the loss going forward: Just don't sidestep it. The film's gonna tell everything. I'm sure a lot of guys are already in the iPads watching that. I know every coach is. Yeah, it is frustrating. It's infuriating. And with all that being said, you have to own it. There's just no deflecting. Get on that plane, eat it. Let it really make you upset, disappointed, and driven, and go to work.

You never pay any attention to the outside stuff while you're doing well. You can't pay attention and follow that trap now when you take one on the chin. It's time to buckle up. It's time to be a grown *** man and go to work. That's the bottom line. There's no magic. It hurts. It stinks. It's a really, really tough loss that we brought upon ourselves. And when I say that, I also credit Georgia Tech. I don't disrespect our opponents when we lose a game. But we brought this upon ourselves, and we're going to dig ourselves out by doing the things that we do well and getting better.

I have complete faith in this team, everybody in it, every coach on the staff, every member of the organization. Being hard on one another during a loss is a must. You must demand the most of each other during difficult times. And this is a difficult, difficult day that we have to handle and we will handle. And we'll come together and shut out everything else and go to work.

This loss needs to hurt everybody really badly, all of us in our gut, in our heart, every ounce of our soul. It does. It needs to drive us. That's how we built this thing. That's the DNA of the program. And that is what we trust in and believe in. We trust and believe in each other, so that's why we're going to get it done.

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Of course this was in our heyday years - but I've seen us behind and then took the win by picking defenses apart with short - 10+ yard quick throws - and it's almost impossible in college football and sandlot football to defend what was once called - button hooks.

Just get the defenders running with you full throttle - and stop. Turn around - and you've lost your coverage. Coming back to the QB - complete pass.

Why must we insist on trying to outrun coverage when it's not been working? They want to give us the underneath - hail! Take what they give you!

Stupid, stupid, stupid.
 
Mario is Coach O. Both good culture builders (somewhat) and can recruit(somewhat). Both are bozo’s on Saturday. Both will have decent records because they will bring in talent. Both will lose mind boggling games because they are below average Gameday coaches. Coach O won a championship because he had elite Coordinators. Unless Mario gets that, he’s never winning at the level some of you expect.
 
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Only in men's sports can one expect praise for claiming to be "a man" for "taking responsibility" for what everyone knows and sees in clearly your responsibility.
 
bdcane4eva said:
That was about as bad a GT team as I've seen..small, slow and extremely limited in what they can do.
Whole team should absolutely be embarrassed... especially coaching staff and especially the untouchable head man.
How we handle these next two games will speak volumes about everyone mentioned above.
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They ran 8 plays on offense and 2 of them were reverses they only ran once, yet, we were grab-bagging and totally confused on defense. There is absolutely no excuse for this loss. None. This is our reality though, we have a HC who should actually be an A-HC/Recruiting coordinator, kept as far away from gameplans and technical coaching as possible. Thus, we will begin every game in a deficit and try to play out way out of it thru talent. That's all he knows.
 
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HurricanesR1 said:
Guidry has been trash since he gave that lecture on making adjustments in his press conference a few weeks back.
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I'm sure we've tried to make adjustments, but we haven't noticed because we have guys like Harris, Kiko and Powell who are constantly missing tackles and getting lost in space. It's hard to notice adjustments when the dline is playing with no physicality and are getting bullied by average ACC olines
 
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