LAKELAND, Fla. — We’re four months in, and Mario Cristobal still hasn’t had a good night’s sleep.
It’s not that he hasn’t closed his eyes. He does usually for about three to four hours sometime after midnight when he’s done texting with recruits. But the Miami Hurricanes’ 51-year-old head football coach — who jokes he has a scuba tank of Cuban coffee attached to him and his assistants at all hours — doesn’t hide the fact he’s been working relentlessly since signing a 10-year, $80 million deal to resurrect the football program he bled for.