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Cristobal wasn't ever going to take FIU to a national championship, but considering that he was basically starting from scratch back in 2006, he did alright. I think Cristobal should've gotten a hot seat year, he didn't really deserved to be fired so rashly.

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I think at any program not named Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, etc., you have to be realistic. If you get someone who gets your mid-major competitive, you stick with him.

Some of these schools get to thinking too much of themselves. FIU had as good a thing going as they will ever have. Ditto Southern Miss with Jeff Bower, East Carolina with Steve Logan. Those guys were fired for stupid reason, but none of their replacements has substantially or consitently won the way they had.

Look at Ohio, whom we just played. Imagine then, after the season, saying, "Solich hasn't won a conference title. He gets us to the title games and bowls, but we gotta go in another direction."

That's what happened with Cristobal, Bower, and Logan. Screw the schools who do that. Those coaches work twice as hard for less money and with less support than the bigger conference school...and free riders like Vandy and Baylor, who can lose for years and still rake in enough cash to eventually get it right.

So, for now, I'm sure Ron Turner is a nice guy, but I'm rooting for FIU failure until the dump the AD who dumped Cristobal.

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I think at any program not named Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, etc., you have to be realistic. If you get someone who gets your mid-major competitive, you stick with him.

Some of these schools get to thinking too much of themselves. FIU had as good a thing going as they will ever have. Ditto Southern Miss with Jeff Bower, East Carolina with Steve Logan. Those guys were fired for stupid reason, but none of their replacements has substantially or consitently won the way they had.

Look at Ohio, whom we just played. Imagine then, after the season, saying, "Solich hasn't won a conference title. He gets us to the title games and bowls, but we gotta go in another direction."

That's what happened with Cristobal, Bower, and Logan. Screw the schools who do that. Those coaches work twice as hard for less money and with less support than the bigger conference school...and free riders like Vandy and Baylor, who can lose for years and still rake in enough cash to eventually get it right.

So, for now, I'm sure Ron Turner is a nice guy, but I'm rooting for FIU failure until the dump the AD who dumped Cristobal.

Then I'm curious because I don't know your stance on the Darrell Dickey firing. Were you for or against that decision? I realize the situation is different but I'm still curious.

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