CORAL GABLES — He can recruit. Another five-star talent signed as you read this sentence.

He can build. These University of Miami lines are massive, like the blueprint of college champions.

He can turn around a wavering program, having done so once at Oregon and now for a second time at the University of Miami.

But on the edge of the most anticipated season in a couple of decades, as No. 6 Notre Dame awaits Sunday night in Hard Rock Stadium, the same, nagging question hangs around No. 10 Miami that was asked last year. And the year before. And Oregon before that.

Can Mario Cristobal coach?

Can he save a fourth quarter from failing?

Can he make the easy decision, as he didn’t in the Georgia Tech loss everyone wants to forget two years ago when he didn’t have his quarterback kneel down

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