The Sun Belt brings aboard some entertaining new coaches for 2012.
2012 Florida International Football: When Cliches Don’t Apply
On December 20, 2006, the same day Stanford hired Jim Harbaugh, 36-year-old Miami offensive line coach Mario Cristobal bravely accepted what was considered one of the toughest jobs in the FBS universe; head coach of Florida International. He inherited a team that had not only gone 0-12 in 2006 (and 3-21 versus FBS teams over the three previous seasons), but was known as much for an incredibly ugly brawl with Miami as for the winless record. Terrible AND horribly undisciplined? A blip on the football radar AND a bit of an embarrassment for the school? And with no weight room or meeting rooms? Good luck with that, Coach.
Five years after his hire, Cristobal turned aside advances from not one, but two major conference programs (Pitt and Rutgers) to remain at FIU.
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