{"id":383697,"date":"2026-08-28T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:50:09","slug":"cristobal-wants-miami-focused-on-being-the-hunter-not-the-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383697\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristobal wants Miami focused on being the hunter, not the hunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla.  \u2014 One week before Miami opens its 2026 college football season at Stanford, head coach Mario Cristobal is making one thing clear: He doesn\u2019t want his players thinking of themselves as the hunted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/28\/cristobal-quiere-que-miami-se-enfoque-en-ser-el-cazador-no-la-presa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/28\/cristobal-quiere-que-miami-se-enfoque-en-ser-el-cazador-no-la-presa\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hurricanes reached the CFP National Championship Game last season before coming up short to Indiana and Fernando Mendoza, raising expectations around a program that enters the new season with plenty of attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But Cristobal rejected the idea that Miami should view itself as having a target on its back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve never subscribed to that narrative. Honestly, if anyone thinks like that or talks like that, they should, they should be tossed out of the building,\u201d said Cristobal. \u201cIf anyone is raised like that, they are not wired to be at the University of Miami.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHere you wake up every single day thinking \u2018I\u2019m gonna do my best to do whatever it takes to be one and know and whatever comes with that.\u2019 The other stuff, the betta, and I mean, we don\u2019t go that route,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cristobal\u2019s preferred approach is to remain aggressive rather than allow his players to become consumed with the idea that opponents are coming after them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hurricanes will travel to Stanford for their season opener on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The full one-on-one interview with Cristobal will air as part of a season-opening kickoff special on Local 10 Thursday night at 8 p.m., ahead of Miami\u2019s opener at Stanford on Friday at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 One week before Miami opens its 2026 college football season at Stanford, head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-383697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}