Mario Cristobal Has Been Fired By FIU

All, College Football Ty Duffy December 5th. 2012, 10:09am

Mario Cristobal built FIU from arguably the worst program in FBS into a bowl team. He turned down multiple better jobs to stay with the Golden Panthers. He was rumored to be a candidate for the USF job. FIU just fired him after a 3-9 season. That’s just silly.

Cristobal went 1-3 out of conference, losing at Duke and UCF and at home to Louisville by a touchdown. He went 2-6 in the Sun Belt, losing four games by a touchdown or less. FIU thinks it can do better, apparently. Good luck with that.

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47 Responses to “Mario Cristobal Has Been Fired By FIU”

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Jason McIntyre Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
2nd big college football surprise in the last 20 hours.
wonder if the Tennessee job will be the 3rd surprise …
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scripty Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Mario Cristobal
I assumed this guy was one of the shitty singers of N Sync or something.
/lights Cleet Signal
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cleet Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
/lights Cleet Signal
Signal is lit, but not the one you think. Cristobal is a former player, grad assistant, and assistant coach at the U. I’m sure he will land on his feet.
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Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Something fishy here
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Nada Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
IS this the equivalent of USF canning Leavitt in terms of how much they’ll eventually regret it?
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
they need to hire that kid on crutches who wanted to participate in FIU/MIAMI brawl.
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Franklin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
There has got to be something more to this story. No way did this guy deserve to get fired soley on one bad season after what he did the last few.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Well Pitt has their new coach if Chryst does bolt.
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KC Resident Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Mario Cristobal
I assumed this guy was one of the shitty singers of N Sync or something.
I assumed he was a Portugal soccer player.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Something fishy here
Could it be that he spoke to Pitt without permission so they fired him with cause?
/rumor!
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The Wayne Fontes Safari Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Mario Cristobal
I assumed this guy was one of the shitty singers of N Sync or something.
I assumed he was a Portugal soccer player.
He’s the one that’s going to save the Republican Party in 2016.
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Dawgfather Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Close games or not, 2-6 in the Sunbelt???
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WheresWallace Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Some of these schools are so delusional. Even FCS schools are getting in on it. App State fired Jerry Moore. Oh, you know the same Jerry Moore that won 3 straight national titles, has made the FCS playoffs 8 straight years and finished in the top 10 in 12 of the last 15 years. Oh, and he coached them to arguably the biggest upset in college football history.
Nah, it’s cool. GTFO.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Mario Cristobal must have been banging the AD’s daughter without rubbers or something as he is a great coach.
/T.Y Hilton is the man
Lights Lisk signal:
Teams who drafted early during the first years of the new rookie salary structure have a huge advantage in free agency and team building right? Lions are fucked with those Suh, Stafford, Calvin Johnson contracts where Redskins and Colts are sitting pretty with Luck and RGIII on the cheap.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Some of these schools are so delusional. Even FCS schools are getting in on it. App State fired Jerry Moore. Oh, you know the same Jerry Moore that won 3 straight national titles, has made the FCS playoffs 8 straight years and finished in the top 10 in 12 of the last 15 years. Oh, and he coached them to arguably the biggest upset in college football history.
Nah, it’s cool. GTFO.
I’m an App State fan and it was probably time to go. They’ve been underperforming and undisciplined for the last four seasons. It’s fucking shameful that they put out the “Retirement” story and then the truth comes out that they did fire him, but he was coming to an end and I’m guessing they felt it was time to get someone in that could bridge into the move to FBS.
If he wanted to coach just one more year though, they should have let him.
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rittyrich Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Maybe he slept with the Villanova bball coach?
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Tim Ryan Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Something fishy here
His name is Mario Cristobal. Of course something shady went on.
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Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
FIU hired and fired Isiah Thomas so I wouldn’t put anything past this athetlic dept in terms of not thinking rationale.
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roastbeast Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
rubio/cristobal in 2016
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Roethlishotdog Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Mario Cristobal must have been banging the AD’s daughter without rubbers or something as he is a great coach.
That was Mitch Cumstein
/putting, at night
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roastbeast Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
dammit wfs
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kazzythekid Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Teams who drafted early during the first years of the new rookie salary structure have a huge advantage in free agency and team building right? Lions are fucked with those Suh, Stafford, Calvin Johnson contracts where Redskins and Colts are sitting pretty with Luck and RGIII on the cheap.
Rams have $27 million committed to 2 players in 2014 with Bradford and Long ($22 million next year)
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/st.-louis-rams/yearly/
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roastbeast Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Oh, you know the same Jerry Moore that won 3 straight national titles, has made the FCS playoffs 8 straight years and finished in the top 10 in 12 of the last 15 years. Oh, and he coached them to arguably the biggest upset in college football history.
he’s overqualified. happens all the time
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Also to be fair coach Moore is in his mid seventies, it’s not like they fired a guy in his prime. But that probably makes it worse.
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scripty Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
It’s fucking shameful that they put out the “Retirement” story and then the truth comes out that they did fire him.
Bruce Arians on line 1.
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Flaccid Indigestion Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Waiting for the obvious “cristobal” CSI Miami takeaway…
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roastbeast Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Lights Lisk signal:
Teams who drafted early during the first years of the new rookie salary structure have a huge advantage in free agency and team building right? Lions are fucked with those Suh, Stafford, Calvin Johnson contracts where Redskins and Colts are sitting pretty with Luck and RGIII on the cheap.
back off. i asked for a post on historical comps on three rookie QBs in same year yesterday
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kazzythekid Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Waiting for the obvious “cristobal” CSI Miami takeaway…
https://twitter.com/CRM_Stephen/status/276345420630876161
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scripty Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
wonder if the Tennessee job will be the 3rd surprise …
(•_•) If you wonder if this coach will get a new job
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■) perhaps you should gaze into a Cristobal
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
/perhaps you should gaze into the Cristobal
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Flaccid Indigestion Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Thanks kazzy– no twitter at work for me.
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kazzythekid Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
basically what scripty said, just with different words.
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Breesus Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
If his name was Chuck Johnson, this wouldn’t have been a story.
Plus, the Sun Belt is about to morph into C-USA and his team will not be invited because they were 2-6 in the Sun Belt, the team has no fan base, and they play in a shitty stadium.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Rams have $27 million committed to 2 players in 2014 with Bradford and Long ($22 million next year)
2014
RG3 $3.6
Morris $660,000
Kerrigan $1.5
Stafford $11
CJ $5
Suh $11
Luck $2.3
Hilton $575,000
Castonzo $1.4
Bradford $14
Long $13
Laurinaitis $10 ?????
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
FIU plays in the Superdome?
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Teams need to unload all their pre 2010 early draft signings, will be a crash in wages for that group.
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
CJ $5
Didn’t Megatron sign a huge contract? When does it actually kick in?
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Kazzy that is an awesome website for the salaries.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
CJ $5
Didn’t Megatron sign a huge contract? When does it actually kick in?
2015 12,500,000
2016 15,950,000
2017 16,500,000
2018 17,000,000
2019 18,250,000
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Whichever teams have the most high draft picks on the roster from the 2010 draft and before are completely and totally fucked.
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
That spotrac site is awesome.
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scripty Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Whichever teams have the most high draft picks on the roster from the 2010 draft and before are completely and totally fucked.
Browns are somehow benefitting from drafting Robiskie & Veikune.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Chiefs are totally fucked. Need a Lisk to take this further.
Basically:
Teams that have the most high draft picks from 2010, 09, 08, 07 still on the roster have a huge problem with the cap. Conversely, teams with the most late round picks in those years and the most high draft picks on the rosters since 2011 are in fantastic shape. Colts are sitting pretty.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
GM’s you need to get those 2010 first round draft picks the fuck off your roster.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
GM’s you need to get those 2010 first round draft picks the fuck off your roster.
Saddest thing ever is Marty Hurney traded away that pick for pennies on the dollar so we couldn’t see how he would have fucked up another contract.
Did draft Jimmy Clausen and Armanti Edwards in the next two rounds though!
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Caribou Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:16 AM
FIU is f*cked in the head. He has turned this program around. I believe he stared a Frosh QB a couple time this season, only know that because i bet those games. EJ Hilliard, actually looked decent, and of course made some mistakes.
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dikembemutomballs Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
losing four games by a touchdown or less. FIU thinks it can do better, apparently. Good luck with that.
Losing four by less than a TD falls squarely on the shoulders of the coach. You weren’t ‘out talented’ you were out coached.
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sousedbergin Says:
December 5th, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Losing four by less than a TD falls squarely on the shoulders of the coach. You weren’t ‘out talented’ you were out coached.
Yeah, when Bill Walsh lost he was always blown out.
/Real coaches lose by 40!
//Wanker

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