Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where math continues to be a vexing problem:
First Quarter: All that money, all that staff, all those analytics … How are coaches still flunking close-game logic?
Mario Cristobal (1)—yeah, you knew we were starting with him—is being paid $8 million to coach Miami this season. The football staff directory on the athletic website lists 70 people below Cristobal’s name. There are the usual 10 full-time assistants, plus 16 analysts and four grad assistants. There are three analysts for special teams alone. There is a general manager of football operations, an executive director of football, an executive director of football recruiting, a senior football advisor, several directors of player personnel, a vast recruiting operations staff—on and on it goes.
