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Mario Cristobal- Front Runner for the Pitt job?

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Mario Cristobal- Front Runner for the Pitt job?

I feel like there's more going on that we don't know about.

Why turn down a promotion? Like someone else said, coaching is a job and who turns down a promotion that will at LEAST double your income?

Is he really THAT good of a guy? Sure, he says he wants his family to live in Miami but I'm sure they could afford spending half the year here like everyone else from NJ. Is he really that good of a guy that he's OK with making several hundred thousand dollars a year instead of a couple million?

Hmmm…
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Something is not adding up here, I saw they offered 1.5M.  I find it hard to believe he would turn that down to stay there, makes no sense.

Maybe they just want to get past signing day, who knows.

GO OWLS!
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More unfounded love for CrystalBall…

Cristobal turns Florida International around, and himself into a coaching commodity

A commodity??

After this season, everyone will see what he is:

A guy who can't coach, and got by on one player.
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Rick said

More unfounded love for CrystalBall…

Cristobal turns Florida International around, and himself into a coaching commodity

A commodity??

After this season, everyone will see what he is:

A guy who can't coach, and got by on one player.

+1

He did such a great job prepping them for their bowl game vs. a 6-6 Marshall team that DOMINATED then while he played footsie trying to get the Pitt or Rutgers jobs. THAT performance cost him the PITT job IMHO!

Guess we will learn more now with TY and the starting QB gone. They will still be good in the Belt though I beleive. But next year, even in the weakened CUSA?
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Who do they have at QB this year? They struggled finding the right man for the job last year, partially I think in honoring Wesley Carroll as he was a senior and giving him his due reps, but I was never overly impressed with him.
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Rick said


Well, he's had two major programs (Rutgers and Pitt) interested in him since he started at FIU. Both were Big East programs at the time, which we all know is a step up from SBC. So yeah, I'd say he was a commodity… certainly not in the way Urban Meyers is a commodity, but still.

That said I do agree that FIU was much better than it had been due to Hilton and the Mississippi State QB transfer they had (Wesley Carroll). Both were good players for them.

Without them, I'm not sure how they'll do this season. #1 is highly questionable. Ark State I see, FIU… eh
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Re: Mario Cristobal- Front Runner for the Pitt job?

they are getting some serious love from the SBC, I guess you're champs until someone knocks you off.

My biggest fear going into this year, is Pelini's coaching prowess. he's got some talent around him, which is great, but he hasn't run a team yet on the field and we all know that Mario stumbled a lot in the beginning. Time will tell…
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