OT - Alabama TE/OL coach Cristobal leaving for Oregon

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Alabama TE/OL coach Mario Cristobal leaving to be Co-Offensive Coordinator at Oregon

He is a great recruiter for Bama so this may help Michigan with some prospects. Notably Malcolm Epps a 2018 TE and current Bama verbal commit.

EDIT: per Ryan Bartow on Twitter

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PutInPeters18

January 13th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^

I can see your point but I think that early enrolling is a different story. It's also been rumored that Cristobal was a candidate to leave (albeit, for a job as FIU head coach or something like that) but this isn't nearly as dirty as Drayton and Urban Meyer were with Weber. Edit: had the wrong assistant coach who left

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BursleysFinest

January 13th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^

The Saban/Bama Deathstar has been operational since what, 2009?  Cristobal has only been there since '13.  Saban has always had staff turnover to little effect on the final result.  Don't expect this to make much of a difference either.   

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StayThirsty85

January 13th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^

...and the discussion above brought into focus for me that we're quickly back in that group with JH.

Bama loses guys like Smart, McIlwain and Kiffin and gets guys like Pruitt and Sarkisian; Urban loses the Tom Hermans and Tim Becks of the world, meanwhile easily adding proven P5 program-building types like Kevin Wilson and Greg Schiano as underlings (love 'em or hate 'em).  I put maybe Oklahoma under Stoops in that category (Wilson, Venables), and perhaps USC (despite a bumpier flow in & out of Carroll, Kiffin, Sark, Orgeron et. al.) -- and both remain Top 5 programs today.

Now, under JH, MIchigan attracts a pipeline of valuable assets like DJ Durkin and Jedd Fisch, and when they move up & out, we reload with talent like Don Brown and Pep Hamilton.  Feeling very in-line with today's "elite" to me, especially compared to the previous 7 to 10 years (incubator for... Ron English?  Mike DeBord?  Scott Shafer?  Al Borges? -- no offense intended, appreciate their service, but very different).

So the Cristobal discussion brought me through above and to the future:  I'll bet it's on JH's strategic radar as to how to keep Chris Partridge as long as possible -- I didn't quite realize Partridge is already a Top 5 recruiter in the nation per 247 -- and a career path on our D staff is unclear at the moment.

(FWIW I feel (hope?) that Ty Sr. (another 247 Top 5 National Recruiter -- Cristobal is #2) will want to stay for the duration of Ty Jr's career to savor the unusual father-son opportunity.)

 

 

 

 

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StayThirsty85

January 13th, 2017 at 4:58 PM ^

...but I truly feel that teams are going to come calling for him long before 5 years from now...

...especially if he further bolsters his on-field resume by being part of molding D Bush Jr, Metellus/Glasgow/K Hudson, Furbush and others around Mike McCray into a stellar unit in Don Brown's attacking D behind Mattison's top-notch starting DL next year, and also has early and notable success with our monster 2017 freshman LB class (Ross, Anthony, Singleton, plus maybe Gay), in addition to continuing his nationally-recognized recruiting prowess.

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Sac Fly

January 13th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^

I figured that the reason he burned his alma mater for the Tide was because there would be an opportunity for advancement at Alabama. Weird how that worked out.

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erald01

January 13th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^

I wonder if Saban encourages this kind of thing where he liked to change coaches every year or two. The guy has had 5 or 6 OC since 09.. thats crazy. Is this how he is able to win constantly? Never let opponents fully learn about your team or your style because as soon as they do boom a new oc or dc comes aboard. I always wondered if such thing is what keeps him so many steps ahead.



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