What should Mario Cristobal and the Miami Hurricanes New Year's Resolutions be for 2024?
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 Couple of the other New Year's resolutions I have written down for Mario Cristobal.
00:04 Um, you were just touching on it.
00:05 You need to fight Cristobal Dawson collective, or, you know, whoever the
00:10 offensive quarter coordinator is next year, I assume it's going to be Shannon Dawson,
00:13 but whoever it is, you need to use your playmakers with more creativity.
00:17 Like you just, Brashard Smith just left the team in the transfer portal.
00:21 I've got to think that him not getting the types of reps he wanted
00:25 has to do with him wanting to leave.
00:27 So you need fine, you need to find ways to use the guys that
00:31 are still here and coming in.
00:32 Jojo trader, I think can be an absolute weapon.
00:35 Ray, Ray Joseph, Nye Carr coming in, Chris Johnson, Robbie Washington.
00:41 Of course, you know, Miami still has Restrepo in the slot,
00:43 but he's not really a gadget guy.
00:45 He's just, he's the best receiver on the team, but you have guys who can stretch.
00:49 Horton should have the guy you should pencil in is how he has to improve.
00:55 He has to go to the next level because Colby Young didn't.
00:59 He had some potential last year.
01:01 He came in this year.
01:02 We thought he was going to be a breakout star and he had lapses
01:05 like for periods or games show up.
01:09 And he dropped a few balls, some drops and not enough separation.
01:13 I didn't think was going to be.
01:16 Yeah.
01:17 I didn't think it was going to be.
01:18 Sorry.
01:21 I don't want to keep cutting you up, but no, no, you're fine.
01:23 I was just saying, you know, American, that's what's going to happen.
01:26 Yeah, absolutely.
01:28 So, all right.
01:29 Another, if I'm Mario Cristobal, another new year's resolution would be, and I
01:33 don't know if this is going to happen, maybe it will to get your quarterback
01:37 position settled by spring football.
01:40 Now, you know, you're, you're running out of time to bring in a new transfer.
01:44 Now guys who are already in the portal.
01:47 Can still commit, but you know, you're, you're running out of time
01:50 for other guys to enter the portal.
01:51 I don't know how far along Miami might be with some of their other
01:54 quarterback targets after ward.
01:56 I would like to see you get somebody in by spring football, but if you don't,
02:00 you certainly hope Ja'Kari Brown stays and doesn't transfer Emory Williams
02:05 gets healthy by spring and Judd Anderson is coming as an early enrollee.
02:09 So you, you gotta hopefully have at least three scholarship
02:12 quarterbacks in spring football.
02:14 That's another resolution.
02:15 And then another one, Bruce, and this was, this was what upset me the
02:19 most out of the pinstripe bowl.
02:21 Um, was the way that.
02:23 Jacoby George handled himself and the way that Miami's coaches handled him.
02:28 He should not have been on the field long enough to commit that many boneheaded,
02:32 selfish, personal foul penalties.
02:35 He should have been benched after the first one.
02:37 Um, what kind of a message are you sending to him and the rest of the team?
02:41 If you let this guy get baited into all these taunting penalties and personal
02:45 fouls, like tough love was needed.
02:48 Like you and Liz, I'm not, I'm not writing off to Colby George.
02:50 He's a fine player, but he's also a hothead.
02:53 Okay.
02:53 And you need to handle him properly.
02:55 Maybe you could have taught him some kind of a lesson or sent the message.
02:59 If you had benched him in that game.
03:00 No, he's been here a couple of years already, but that was selfish.
03:04 And it just, he just got baited into it.
03:06 It just, it's a, it's, it's bad.
03:08 It doesn't look, the optics are bad for him and for Mario to tell you the truth.
03:12 Here's a question for you just on an aside note.
03:16 What would you say if Van Dyke lights it up at Wisconsin?
03:20 What would that tell you?
03:21 Anything?
03:21 Um, prove themself or what?
03:24 What do you think?
03:25 Um, first of all, I wouldn't read too much into it, honestly, because changes
03:30 of scenery sometimes do do players well.
03:33 Right.
03:34 I mean, he's, he's extra motivated, right?
03:36 He was, he was all in with Miami for the last, you know, four years, five years.
03:40 However, it's been long that it's been, he's been on the team.
03:43 So he's motivated to go out there.
03:44 Sometimes a change of scenery does a quarterback.
03:46 Well, they've got a good offensive coordinator there and Phil Longo.
03:49 I think that they could find the right recipe with TBD.
03:52 So if he goes to Wisconsin and does well, I know some Miami fans would say,
03:57 see, we tried to ruin this kid.
03:59 Uh, for me, I would be happy for him.
04:01 Cause I like Tyler Van Dyke.
04:02 Now, if he goes there and does poorly, then, you know, that would probably validate
04:07 some of the things that happened down here.