didn\u2019t waste any time responding to Smart\u2019s ribbing<\/a> when handed the mic moments later, after a clip of Hurricanes highlights played.<\/p>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know this was like this, but I\u2019m glad it is,\u201d Cristobal said with a smile. \u201cFirst thing I\u2019ll say, it\u2019s great right there to watch (a video of) what a player like Carson Beck could do with great coaching. You know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Beck played for Georgia for five seasons before transferring to Miami last winter.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s give it up for Kirby Smart. I mean, if it wasn\u2019t for all his years of pre-NIL, we wouldn\u2019t have NIL right now,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cRobinson family, great seeing you. We leave at 9:30 on the real jet. We have more than one restaurant in Miami as opposed to Athens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cristobal kept taking shots.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can go on for a little bit now,\u201d he said with a chuckle. \u201cYou got to give a guy like Kirby credit. I mean, when you have all that time to sit at home watching us play on TV throughout the playoffs when you don\u2019t take care of business \u2026 but congratulations on the SEC championship. That\u2019s awesome. We were 5-0 against the SEC (in the last three seasons). I don\u2019t know what you were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cristobal then turned his focus on the hometown Gators.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in enemy territory,\u201d the coach said. \u201cI got a feeling some of you guys are on Kirby\u2019s side. You guys are super professional. I never felt so welcome in enemy territory \u2014 except (in 2024) at The Swamp, 41-17.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hearing some boos, Cristobal tried to win back the home crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was meant for that Georgia guy,\u201d the former Miami lineman said. \u201cCan we all say screw Georgia?\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in the evening, Smart took a shot at the Gators\u2019 recent on-field struggles by making a joke about Spurrier\u2019s daughter, a realtor in Gainesville, helping four different coaches buy homes in the area while he\u2019s been Georgia\u2019s coach since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been nearly 60 years since Miami played Georgia in football, but Monday night in Gainesville, Fla., the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,450,2972,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-772778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-georgia-bulldogs","11":"tag-miami-hurricanes","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116124643752356172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}