Americans have spent much of the last decade engaged in nostalgia worship, and sports have been ground zero for that worship. Throwback uniforms abound in every sport; fans yearn for brazenly unpopular past institutions like the Bowl Championship Series; you can't research an NBA topic without running into eight former-player podcasts howling that things were better yesterday. The fine line between honoring and romanticizing the past has been obliterated.
Taking a sledgehammer to that viewpoint Tuesday was Miami football coach Mario Cristobal. In one of the most insightful answers to a question you'll see this year in any sport, Cristobal—a two-time national champion offensive tackle with the Hurricanes during their glory years—put forth a refreshingly forward-thinking vision for his team.
