Mario Cristobal takes heat from fans, media after Miami's loss to Rutgers - Saturday Road
Mario Cristobal took a lot of criticism from fans and media for his timeout usage vs. Rutgers.
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Mario Cristobal takes heat from fans, media after Miami’s loss to Rutgers
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I'm amazed at how good a job he did with a team he had to cobble together with spare parts. Good job by him. Although, our coach did better one!
Yeah while his time management was brutal and his team was sort of not ready to play early. He managed to keep his team in the game and given their many defections it wasn't a bad job overall
Yet Greg was much more prepared and managed gameday better
Yet Greg was much more prepared and managed gameday better
We couldn’t defend #7 in the second quarter. Surprised they went away from that in half 2 until late, when he burned us more.
They didnt. We changed what we did at half time.
Would using the extra 2 timeouts made the difference.? Media/fans often focus on the most ridiculous things. The blocked punt and RU’s ability to run the ball and win up front was the difference. It’s not rocket science.
you are responding to a guy that may have never touched an actual football in his life
I think Miami had some really bad field position that did them in after their drive to take the lead. Penalties killed RU in the first half but did the same to Miami in the 3rd quarter
The game swung violently in RUTGERS favor with the blocked punt
The game swung violently in RUTGERS favor with the blocked punt
Don't forget the Canes had a large number of opt-outs, particularly on defense, and played the 3rd string QB... That said, RU did what was needed to win. This will give some good momentum heading to next year!
This game is hard to judge that. Miami was missing a lot of key players. Plus his recruiting has been top notch. Not a fan of Miami at all, but for what he had to work with on short notice it wasn't a bad job overall.
I thought Schiano called two 2nd half TOs that he shouldn’t have:
1. he called a TO and then a challenge on Monangai’s run to the 1. If you have 1st and goal on the 1 with KM in the backfield, why bother ? He got charged the TO.
2. Called a TO on defense near midfield later in the 4th on Miami 4th and 1. Again, not worth it.
He may have needed them later on more critical plays.
So, bad job by both coaches with timeouts.
1. he called a TO and then a challenge on Monangai’s run to the 1. If you have 1st and goal on the 1 with KM in the backfield, why bother ? He got charged the TO.
2. Called a TO on defense near midfield later in the 4th on Miami 4th and 1. Again, not worth it.
He may have needed them later on more critical plays.
So, bad job by both coaches with timeouts.
You can be a really good football player and never touch the ball….you know this
Well, we resisted the urge to go for it at midfield and we pinned them deep. That turned out to be huge.
OK- I'll play
1) yeah- bad challenge - maybe should have just called a TO and allow them time to take a look
2) You really cant tell why a TO is called in this instance - so- is it bad or not- no way to know
* We ended up not needing them so his management was far better than MC
What are they mad about? We are clearly a better football team than them, regardless of coaching.
Newsflash: football isn’t won with pretty boy skill position players
Newsflash: football isn’t won with pretty boy skill position players
Miami recruits itself. Missing players is part of college football now. He should have developed other ones then.
The blocked punt was a coaching blunder. As were the lack of using timeouts.
I’ve seen many of his Oregon games. He’s a terrible coach.
It was the right call despite what the announcers were saying
Could not risk giving them ball at mid field
Call the decision whatever, it’s absurd that GS needed to do anything to get them to review the TD there.
Should be automatic the refs look at it in that scenario…
Hey F 'em. If they want to recruit mercenaries this is how it works out. It'll happen to us soon enough.
Christal was the guy we begged to come here and then he didn’t . And we stunk for years because we chose others
I thought he was in, even after the review
That woman ref was missing calls all over the place on both sides.
Fair comments about MIAMI not having some players, but we have had instances over the years, where players were hurt, back breaks, etc... . F*&% it... we won... period. Players stepped up, and aren't Miami's 2nd & 3rd players supposed to be still better than RU players based on their recruiting? So SCREW them... GO RU !!!!
Apparently he has a hot demanding wife
if I recall.. Cristobal was considering taking the job, but his wife wanted to be in Florida and not NJ
Tweet of the game
Tip Top is Him on X @Matthew08691148 @AllKindsWeather Would rather not play a bowl game then get shit on by Rutgers 😭😭😭😭😭 _ X.htm
Tip Top is Him on X @Matthew08691148 @AllKindsWeather Would rather not play a bowl game then get shit on by Rutgers 😭😭😭😭😭 _ X.htm
It’s illogical to say it was good use of TOs because we didn’t end up needing them. That should go without saying.
At the time, I thought he made a mistake not using his timeouts sooner
Then, they had the ball with a chance and still had the two timeouts
Some could question it, but it wasn’t totally foolish, especially if he burned one or two earlier, and we got first downs thereafter
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This is like Einstein trying to teach a pre-school student the theory of relativity.
Schianoball 101. A gimmick play and/or a special teams surprise leads to the win.
He criticizes R's pass defense when our best pass defender was out because he left for the NFL draft. Shelby will never have anything nice to say.
We didnt let him motion or move to be man covered with a safety. We also did more to bring heat opposite of where he was and not underneath where he was running routes.
We also blitzed less and ran more zone underneath to make the reads harder. We ended up getting more pressure by bringing less in the blitz package.
Blah blah blah...they don't like that we are better than they are.
1. Why snap the ball again for the score if you don’t have to? Miami also stopped us 2x on the “rush push” earlier in the game. I wouldn’t say it felt like a sure thing. I also thought Kyle deserved the TD after a truly special run. Certainly would have been in the “Pinstripe All-Time Top 10 Plays”
2. That TO was unfortunate. The play clock had run to zero so Miami was about to get a penalty. My guess is RU was trying for some time to get the TO but Refs didn’t see it.
