Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. It’s just not Mario Cristobal’s thing. He remembers his final game playing at the University of Miami, of course, a clunker after four mostly golden years and can define it in a word if asked.
“Disappointing,” he said of that infamous 34-13 loss to Alabama in the 1993 Sugar bowl.
He remembers his last opponent on the Miami sideline in 2006, an offensive line coach about to be a head coach at Florida International University.
“Boston College,” he said of an unranked Miami’s 17-14 win in the regular-season finale.
But there’s no tug of nostalgia or even deep introspection in any of this as he returns to a Miami sideline in Saturday’s opener against Bethune Cookman.