Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal to visit ailing mother in Miami

The Oregon Ducks head coach Mario Cristóbal is making a quick trip to Miami tonight. According to Matt Prehm, the Ducks head coach will be making the cross-country trip to visit his mother. Cristóbal explained that his mother is sick and he will be flying out to visit her. But the trip won’t be long, he will be back in Eugene, Oregon tomorrow.
This season the college football coaching carousel is in full effect, and one team has come up — although they have not parted ways with their head coach — in the Miami Hurricanes. Cristóbal is a Miami native, who played for the Hurricanes from 1989 to 1992. He also went back and became a position coach for his alma mater; serving as a graduate assistant for the Hurricanes from 1998-2000. He returned to Miami as an assistant from 2004-2006. Afterward, he got his first head coaching job at FIU the following season.
There have been no indicators that the Oregon head coach would leave his current position there for the same position at his hometown school.
Cristobal’s Miami connection is ‘different’
If Cristobal were to leave Oregon, FOX analyst and reporter for The Athletic Bruce Feldman has a hard time picturing him anywhere outside of Miami, assuming the job opens. Current head coach Manny Diaz has not yet been fired, but there is wide speculation that the school will part ways with him after an underwhelming 6-5 season.
“I would be surprised if he was going to leave there, if he was going to go back to the state of Florida, and he would go any place other than Miami,” the college football reporter said. “He doesn’t have any connection to Gainesville.”
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In addition to his individual connections, Cristobal’s family remains connected to Miami. His brother, who also played football at Miami, is a police officer in the area.
“He has a feeling about the University of Miami that is almost different than anybody I know in coaching,” Feldman added. “That is where he came from, that is where he was an assistant.”
From the Miami side, Feldman has heard there is certainly interest from the area.
“There’s people from his old high school, Columbus High, who I think would love to get Mario back there,” Feldman added. “There’s a lot of people who would like to move money around to make it happen. We’ll see.”
Feldman concluded his commentary on the situation acknowledging there are challenges at Miami, challenges of which Cristobal is acutely aware. The Hurricanes have won 10 games just once since 2003. And many of their position groups have been decimated by injuries and transfers.