Miami Hurricanes new coach Mario Cristobal set to begin first fall camp Friday

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It is now an annual question at Miami, the official precursor to the start of a new football season for a program that was once a perennial national championship contender and hasn’t been at that level for two decades and counting.

"Is The U back?"

New Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal has an answer: "The U is back to work," the Miami alumnus said.

That back-to-work process started the moment when the private plane that carried Cristobal home from Oregon last December landed in Miami, began picking up speed as he assembled a staff and got into spring ball and hits a new level when the first Hurricanes' preseason camp under the Miami native starts this week.

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The first practice is Friday; there are a slew of acclimation activities happening over the next few days. Expectations from an impatient fan base are always high at Miami, are higher now because of Cristobal’s presence and probably rose even more when the Hurricanes were installed last week as the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Coastal Division preseason favorite.

Miami head coach Mario Cristobal answers a question at the NCAA college football Atlantic Coast Conference Media Days in Charlotte, North Carolina. Cristobal's first camp as the Miami coach is set to begin Friday. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

"Oh, I think we’ll handle that by the way we approach practice," Cristobal said. "There’s no one in this organization that should be feeling like they’ve arrived. If anyone feels that way, they’re quickly going to change their perspective by the way that we approach practice."

Cristobal inherited a program that went 7-5 last