BREAKING: Miami football Locks in Head Coach Mario Cristobal with Groundbreaking 10-Years, $108 Million Contract Featuring $10 Million Annual Retention Bonus Through 2030…5
BREAKING: Miami football Locks in Head Coach Mario Cristobal with Groundbreaking 10-Years, $108 Million Contract Featuring $10 Million Annual Retention Bonus Through 2030…5
The way Miami offensive line coach Alex Mirabal sees things, coaching the players tasked with protecting Heisman Trophy-contending quarterback Cam Ward is like teaching math or history.
Either way, it aligns perfectly with his background.
Mirabal — maybe the closest friend and confidant of Miami coach Mario Cristobal, someone he’s known for 40 years — learned the nuances of offensive line play from a pair of coaches who happened to be math teachers at Miami’s Christopher Columbus High School. And in the first chapter of his professional life, Mirabal spent 16 years teaching American history and government.
Now he teaches blocking and schemes. His students are clearly listening.
“At the end of the day, I’m a teacher,” Mirabal said. “And I think a lot of times people lose sight of that, that a coach is a teacher. But I am, and my subject matter now happens to be offensive line play
The 11th-ranked Hurricanes (9-1, 5-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) lead the nation in points per game, yards per game and yards per play. Ward is rewriting the Miami record book and is the national leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns. And if not for the Miami offensive line playing as well as it has this season, those numbers obviously wouldn’t be the same
