OT: Miami's Mario Cristobal Makes the Worst Coaching Error in History
Up by 3 on Georgia Tech with less than 40 seconds left and Miami had the ball. He only needed to take a knee and run the clock out. Instead, Cristobal calls a run play, the guy fumbles, Georgia Tech gets the ball back and a couple plays later scores a touchdown.
Worst coaching mistake ever.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:46 PM ^
NIL only buys so much.
October 8th, 2023 at 7:39 AM ^
And seeing the crowd shots, all I could think of was Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own…
”Dozens of people are waiting for the game.”
October 8th, 2023 at 8:31 AM ^
And to think that Miami was the hottest ticket in college football in the 80’s and 90’s. Those Jimmy Johnson teams were awesome.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:43 AM ^
That was their time, when Florida was rapidly growing as a state and recruiting was still highly regional. But they're a small, poorly-located private school. To think that even in their golden era they didn't have their own stadium. FL recruiting is now known and is nation-wide. Miami, like Nebraska, is unlikely to ever reach those levels again, unless they have an absolutely transcendent, generational coach who will stay there. It definitely isn't Cristobal. The guy's a joke.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:52 AM ^
And most poignantly, it does not buy good coaching XD
October 8th, 2023 at 4:23 PM ^
Worse than his stupid call is that he blamed his OC for the play call.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:47 PM ^
And reminder: Georgia Tech is terrible. They lost to Bowling Green by 11.
October 8th, 2023 at 3:50 AM ^
Wrong. Bowling Green is an unstoppable wrecking ball, Georgia Tech is the building BGSU wrecked, Miami (ytm) and the rest of the ACC is nothing but a rumble of bricks laid waste by the transitive MAC.
October 8th, 2023 at 6:46 AM ^
Big Ten West says hi.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:01 AM ^
We need to acknowledge this:
- 21-2, Record of teams BGSU lost to
- 6-5, Record of teams BGSU has beaten
Looking forward to some second half of the season MACtion
October 8th, 2023 at 9:49 AM ^
In all seriousness no one has given Michigan a closer game than BGSU. Granted, a big chunk of that was self-inflicted, but still.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:47 PM ^
I’d fire him tonight. Don’t need to wait for the tarmac like Kiffin since it was at home. There’s absolutely no excuse for the offense or the defense. Everyone will talk about the fumble but that defense brings back memories of the Jim Caldwell Loins game all those years ago. That plus the inexcusable fumble when all they had to do was take a knee? Get rid of this guy tonight.
October 8th, 2023 at 12:44 AM ^
Well, no, of course. They've lost one game this season, by a total of 3 points. You don't fire the coach who made all that happen for one totally stupid play call. But ... sheesh, what a colossally stupid mistake.
October 8th, 2023 at 12:02 PM ^
Only 3 points but they were favored by like 17 at home against Georgia freaking Tech. They have more 5* players than Michigan. Again, coaching.
October 8th, 2023 at 2:52 AM ^
He's their golden savior tho. Played there. Went to Oregon, then came home to return them to glory.
I agree with you. That egregious an error should cost him his job, but it won't. And Florida State and Clemson are the schools that benefit the most.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:49 AM ^
I don't think much of Mario's history as an HC, not terrible, average, but nothing to indicate he'll ever resurrect a program, and there are enough miles on the tires to have a good sample size. However, to suggest that someone would be fired for something like that is ridiculous. Many coaches have made that mistake at the ends of games, and tried to run out the clock with a run. The vast majority of the time it's fine. Is it statistically worse than a kneel, certainly, since it involves an exchange. But we're not in John L. Smith territory here.
October 8th, 2023 at 7:18 AM ^
Jim Caldwell game??? Chatty Patty Patricia says,"hold my beer!"
October 8th, 2023 at 6:38 PM ^
After the Pisarcik/Csonka fumble and Herm Edwards scoop 6, no coach should EVER have allowed that to happen again. EVER!
October 8th, 2023 at 7:58 AM ^
I for one am perfectly fine with Miami (ytm) having a clown as coach indefinitely. Couldn’t happen to a nicer program….
so don’t fire him; extend his contract until his rendition of Onan gets him fired.
October 8th, 2023 at 2:24 PM ^
Ok, not the worst decision in history since the play that popularized the victory formation was the handoff fumble that Herm Edwards returned for a TD to beat the Giants. So that’s at least a tie.
since you mention the Lions, I’m going with the Morninwig decision to take the wind on the overtime coin flip as dumbest decision.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:50 PM ^
I am laughing at myself for taking Miami -20.
October 8th, 2023 at 5:11 AM ^
Vinny Knuckles ain't laughin', capice?
October 7th, 2023 at 11:50 PM ^
Against A&M, Alabama also had an opportunity to take a knee to run out the clock, but didn’t. Can’t remember the exact scenario, but they could have taken knees, instead made it interesting at them end. Bad day for coaches not knowing what in the hell they’re doing.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:55 PM ^
Alabama not only didn’t knee but passed
October 7th, 2023 at 11:55 PM ^
Bama's knees would have put it at like 12-15 seconds on 4th down. Runs got them to 7 and then they did the run a little bit and launch it deep out of bounds to expire the clock. Math was handled properly by Saban.
They did fuck up by calling a screen to a WR which Milroe bounced.
October 8th, 2023 at 12:20 AM ^
The three am incomplete pass on first down, instead of taking a knee
October 7th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
Yep. After the throw on the first down, Saban called a timeout. They ended up with 7 seconds after 3 downs when they could have taken knee three downs.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
I think the game is starting to pass Saban by. Like a few years ago when Belichick pulled a Marty Mornhinweg and deferred on a kick in overtime. Both of these guys should be retired by now…
October 8th, 2023 at 12:16 AM ^
"I think the game is starting to pass Saban by"
Or, he no longer has the best players, kind of like when he was in the NFL, and is not as great of a coach as his record suggests?
October 8th, 2023 at 12:45 AM ^
Coaches don't get credit for getting those great players?
October 8th, 2023 at 12:51 AM ^
Yes, he gets credit - but, so do the boosters - the Chargers and Challengers in the parking lot - and, an exceptional brown bag program…
October 8th, 2023 at 2:49 AM ^
So why isn't Jimbo Fisher racking up national titles at Texas A&M?
October 8th, 2023 at 8:33 AM ^
Because it's nearly as much about who the HC surrounds himself with on his staff as it is who is on the roster. And we all know Saban has been finding it increasingly difficult to replace good coaches. That is the difference in Bama the last few seasons.
October 8th, 2023 at 12:09 AM ^
Saban has 7 national titles and Bama won.
Cristobal is pure mediocrity.
October 8th, 2023 at 12:47 AM ^
What I saw was Alabama's QB saw a WR move out left uncovered. He tried to get him the ball quick. Threw a horribly under thrown ball his way. It would have been a nice play.
Bad decision.. yes! I will beg the question.. do NCAA quarterbacks have access to their offensive coordinators on the field like the NFL? Helmet communication?
October 8th, 2023 at 4:21 AM ^
do NCAA quarterbacks have access to their offensive coordinators on the field like the NFL? Helmet communication?
no. and probably won't unless the elite programs break away from the rest of the NCAA.
and even in the NFL, it think that communication shuts off a few seconds before the snap and stays off until the plays is over
October 8th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
Shuts off in the NFL with 15 seconds on the play clock
October 8th, 2023 at 5:01 AM ^
“To beg the question” means to avoid it. “Bob, where were you last Saturday night?” “I beg of you, sir, don’t ask me that.” It does not mean to ask it, nor does it mean to demand it. 99% of the time that you hear people say “it begs the question,” they’re getting it entirely backwards.
October 8th, 2023 at 8:17 AM ^
I thought the original definition referred to a type of circular reasoning--making an argument on an unproven assumption. But I just did a quick search and it sounds like the new usage ("raises a question," or "invites a question") is pretty widely accepted these days.
I guess language is changing all the time. That's literally soul-crushing!
October 8th, 2023 at 9:05 AM ^
This has me quite nonplussed.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:44 AM ^
i literally see what you did there.
i think you’re correct, by the way. “begs the question” is more appropriately used as a reference to circular reasoning. “mel tucker’s recent statements regarding who leaked the stories of his sexual proclivities beg the question of why he was engaging in them with a contractor in the first place.”
”i will beg the question of the why the ncaa does [etc.]” is definitely not correct, however. “i will ask the question” is more in line with the intent.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:58 AM ^
Yes, circular reasoning raises a question, "how do we know this premise-conclusion is true?". There is no new definition, it's just another example of the same meaning.
October 8th, 2023 at 10:45 AM ^
The new meaning sucks because you can just say “raises the question”. There’s not an easy replacement for the original meaning of “begs the question”.
October 8th, 2023 at 9:56 AM ^
That explanation is complete nonsense.
October 8th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^
That's not entirely correct as more modern usage has expanded. To quote from THE INTERNET:
Begging the question means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response," and can often be replaced with "a question that begs to be answered." However, a lesser used and more formal definition is "to ignore a question under the assumption it has already been answered." The phrase itself comes from a translation of an Aristotelian phrase rendered as "beg the question" but meaning "assume the conclusion."
I have watched Noam Chomsky, super genius, the Albert Einstein of linguistics, in fact use the term in the first usage described, which is mostly consistent with the post you are attempting to refute with your grammar fascism.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:54 PM ^
Hole. E. Shite. I turned the game off!!!!!
October 7th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
You’re not alone. I saw the score pop up on the bottom of the USC game and was flabbergasted!
October 7th, 2023 at 11:54 PM ^
Lol. Lmao even.
October 7th, 2023 at 11:55 PM ^
That’s inexcusable. What was he trying to accomplish?
October 7th, 2023 at 11:57 PM ^
“What does a coach have to do around here to get fired?” - Darryl Rogers