EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon offensive lineman Dallas Warmack doesn’t remember the exact day he met Mario Cristobal, or the extent of the conversation they had.



He does remember this, though. The two met when Warmack was a 10th-grader at Mays High in Atlanta, and the initial impression Warmack got of the then-Alabama assistant hasn’t changed.



“Some coaches try to bait you, feed you, tell you things you want to hear,” said Warmack, a redshirt junior graduate transfer from Alabama. “He was one of the coaches that would always tell you the truth. He always told me that if I was a hard worker, I would eventually play in his system.”



Warmack and Cristobal are part of the same system again. A year after Cristobal left Alabama to become Oregon’s offensive line coach, and then head coach, Warmack (6 feet 2, 336 pounds) made the trek west to join him. Warmack signed with Alabama out of high school – he is the brother of...