First-year Hurricanes football head coach Mario Cristobal, who has over 20 years of Division I coaching experience, knows that leading a collegiate football team is no easy feat.
However, it is even more difficult coaching a Power Five program desperate to return to its glory days like the Miami Hurricanes.
Not everybody is built for that kind of pressure, but Cristobal was born to bring the ‘Canes back to greatness. A Miami native and double alumnus of the University, his entire life has been building up to this moment.
As a teenager, he played football for Christopher Columbus High School before attending the University of Miami at the height of its fame, winning two national championships in 1989 and 1991 as an offensive lineman.