Everything Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal Said After National Championship Loss To Indiana

The No. 10 Miami Hurricanes fell to nan No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers 27-21 successful nan nationalist championship connected Monday night. 

After nan game, Hurricanes caput coach Mario Cristobal said to nan media astir nan nonaccomplishment and his team’s performance. 

Below is simply a transcript of everything Cristobal said.

CRISTOBAL: First and foremost, thanking God for nan opportunity to beryllium present coming and really I would for illustration to admit these 3 young men and their teammates. They're nan champion point that's happened to Miami and nan University of Miami successful complete 2 decades. And it's not nan consequence we wanted. Credit to Indiana. They're a awesome shot team. But to these guys correct here, I couldn't beryllium much proud to beryllium associated pinch them. I emotion them. They're perfectly unthinkable quality beings, competitors, resilient, and I want to convey them and nan remainder of their teammates and it's a reliable one. Tough 1 to person to eat, but we will. And that's it. 

Q: Unfortunate ending for Carson coming pinch that interception, but tin you picture what you saw retired of him coming and conscionable wide this play arsenic a imaginable and a player?

CRISTOBAL: Same we spot from each our guys. A batch of resiliency, conscionable a continued, really tremendous activity ethic. Earned nan respect of his teammates. Teammates moving difficult pinch him. I mean, we triumph together, we suffer together. Proud of him. Like to person that past 1 back. But again a batch of nan plays made passim nan people of year, from nan guys up present connected shape to nan guys successful that locker room, sewage america present to this infinitesimal and gave america an opportunity each nan measurement to nan end. So proud of him.

Q: Can you conscionable bespeak connected nan travel that these 3 guys especially, but everyone that's been pinch you since you sewage present that you've been connected to get from wherever you came successful to now. To this moment. 

CRISTOBAL: They had nan guts, nan faith, and nan spot to look astatine a spot that was a complete messiness and say, "I'm going to beryllium nan person. I'm going to beryllium a man of action. And I'm going to make things existent and I'm going to make nan University of Miami a salient programme erstwhile again. And we're going to win. And we're going to triumph big. And we're going to alteration nan culture.” And that's not easy. A batch of group look astatine that [and] they awkward distant from it. These guys are morganatic for illustration big-time, big-time quality beings. Going to beryllium awesome fathers and husbands and leaders of nan organization measurement beyond football. And I deliberation everybody associated pinch nan University of Miami and really moreover if you're a assemblage shot fan, you sewage to beryllium fans of these guys because these guys, they correspond nan measurement it's expected to beryllium done.

Q: As a follow-up to what you were asked about, Carson, it looked for illustration location was immoderate miscommunication connected that past throw. Can you conscionable benignant of return america done what happened there?

CRISTOBAL: It's a correct spot to spell pinch nan ball. Just sewage to beryllium a small spot further and a small spot farther outside. So, we didn't link connected it and turnover.

Q: Just a mates of days agone you talked astir nan request to beryllium a fighter, to jump into nan fight, and taking those steps to build that program. And successful nan past possibly sometimes those steps, possibly arsenic achy arsenic they are, person not been taken appropriately. Is this a achy measurement successful that process and is conscionable 1 much measurement that you person to return and get done successful bid to get 1 much triumph successful nan adjacent season?

CRISTOBAL: I deliberation immoderate nonaccomplishment of people is ever going to beryllium painful, but I'd for illustration to bespeak upon nan truth that these guys won 13 games this twelvemonth and won a postseason playoff game. Got to nan playoffs for nan first clip successful Miami history and past hit 4 Top 10 teams, hit 7 Top 25 teams, won nan Fiesta Bowl, won nan Cotton Bowl, and you cognize what? I'll return afloat blasted for it. We're 1 thrust short of winning nan nationalist championship. So, I don't spot thing negative, but I do spot symptom successful moments for illustration this, and we should if we're a competitor that's worthy anything. You consciousness it and you usage it, and you springiness those feelings a direction. And I cognize nan guys coming backmost will. And I cognize that nan guys moving connected will besides usage that arsenic fuel.

Q: You talk astir nan guys who are coming back. Mark finds nan extremity area doubly tonight. Mally [Malachi Toney] gets successful location once. I cognize there's clip to get fresh for adjacent season, but conscionable really bully do you consciousness astir nan activity going guardant knowing that you've sewage those 2 guys among nan kids coming back?

CRISTOBAL: I deliberation it can't beryllium understated what these guys person done. I can't understate that. The expertise to return a squad connected November 1st that was little than debased and to find a measurement that each azygous time clasp group accountable, request nan champion of and bring power and enthusiasm to believe and get nan results connected a play basis, a 1-0 for I deliberation 7 weeks straight. It is simply a testament to what they are. It's a testament to their prime and their determination and being existent men of action. And again, they're nan champion point that's happened to Miami, nan University of Miami, successful our organization successful 25 years.

Q: Now that you've gone against them, been connected nan section pinch them, tin you conscionable thief america get a small penetration into what makes Indiana's defense arsenic effective arsenic they've been each twelvemonth and were tonight?

CRISTOBAL: Good players, bully scheme. They're mature, they're older, they walk a batch of clip astir each other, truthful they understand really to leverage nan ball, pass really well, and they surely had a really bully first half against us. A batch of in installments to them. Felt successful nan 2nd half, we're really starting to make a batch of yards and points and whatnot. And felt astatine nan extremity location we were besides generating immoderate bully chunk plays. And past in installments to them, they came up pinch a large play correct location erstwhile it counted astatine nan end. But they're a very good coached operation, very precocious extremity players. I cognize that sometimes we suffer show of nan truth that guys develop. They've been developed well, some astatine James Madison and present and again, in installments to them. They won nan game.

Q: Mario, you mentioned players utilizing what happened coming arsenic fuel. Knowing really overmuch you person put in, really overmuch will you usage this arsenic substance arsenic you move guardant to effort and get a title for Miami? 

CRISTOBAL: Well, I mean it's not astir me. Doesn't matter nan time aliases nan time, I'm ever going to beryllium really, really motivated because this is not for me. This is for nan University of Miami. So our driving determination has ever been disconnected nan charts, and it's fueled by them. Like I want to do good by them. And nan truth that they time off present without nan nationalist title successful manus for illustration that, it's really difficult to woody pinch that. And again, if you're worthy a damn arsenic a competitor you return each that worldly and you springiness it a direction. And nan guidance is to ever fto these guys cognize wherever they are successful life, ever sewage their back, ever a telephone telephone away, nary matter what, for illustration my coaches person ever been for me. And nan ones that travel them, they will understand what nan modular is and they'll beryllium held to it. They'll beryllium held to that modular by these guys, wherever they are, and holding them [accountable]. But they besides learned it now and now it's sewage to beryllium put into action. You don't conscionable automatically return to a crippled for illustration this conscionable because you're mad. I deliberation that's nan biggest misconception successful sports. “Oh well, they almost sewage there. They'll beryllium backmost adjacent year.” That's a bunch of bull. You sewage to use each nan lessons learned, you've sewage to amended from a roster standpoint, a regiment standpoint, discipline, everything, and move forward. And these guys person group nan modular to thief america get there.

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