Mario Cristobal didn’t mince words Tuesday when talking about Miami’s roster upon his arrival to Coral Gables as the Hurricanes’ head coach.
Cristobal, who took over as Miami’s head coach in 2022, threw the program’s talent level when he got there under the bus.
During his press conference at the 2025 ACC Football Kickoff in Charlotte, Cristobal said that in his first year at Miami, he remembers “watching film and saying we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
“And I think this is the best way to put it, to summarize it: We were on a tarmac and we asked the pilot to delay — this is a flight during recruiting and fundraising — where Miami was on the verge of not having a player drafted for the first time in I don’t know how many decades, and then finally late in the seventh round, a player was selected,” Cristobal recalled.