Mario Cristobal celebrates his 53rd birthday today
The myth, the man and the legend Mario Cristobal, which is the University of Miami Hurricanes football head coach has a birthday today. Mario Cristobal is now 53 years old.
Born on September 24, 1970, the Miami, FL native is currently changing this Hurricanes team to the right direction. Accepting the Hurricane’s’ head coaching job ahead of the 2022 season, Cristobal inherited a program that was coming off a seven-win season and the firing of Manny Diaz.
Cristobal holds a 9-7 overall record during his 2 seasons so far in Miami. Since 2022, Miami has posted a 3-5 record against ACC competition. However, he took ever a team that was not so great last season, but so far it already looks like a whole different Miami team this season with Miami being 4-0 heading into conference play.
At the young age of 53, Mario is the seventh-oldest coach in the ACC and the 56th oldest in all of Division I football.
Cristobal played high school football at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami and then went to play for the University of Miami, where he was a four-year letterman between 1988 and 1992. Cristobal played under Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson during the rise of the University of Miami as one of the nation’s elite collegiate football programs.[1] During his four seasons at the University of Miami, he was a member of two national championship-winning teams (1989 and 1991). In 1992, Cristobal earned First-team All-Big East Conference as an offensive tackle.
Cristobal graduated from the University of Miami in 1993 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami School of Business and later earned a master’s degree there in 2001. Cristobal is one of several University of Miami players from the late 1980s who appears in the documentary The U, which premiered December 12, 2009 on ESPN, and chronicles the program’s rapid ascent and national championships and the era’s associated scandals that proved costly to it. The documentary drew 2.3 million viewers, making it then the most watched documentary in ESPN history.
The Hurricanes family will hope to keep Cristobal around for another 10 seasons to see what other barriers he can break.
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