48,000 seat stadium is all we need.

[NVA CANE]

Just put 40 thousand folding chairs in tropical park or wherever and call it a day. You can add more folding chairs for big games. When the game is over take the folding chairs away. Least expensive stadium in the history of man. :quag:

 

[TP801]

Troll thread ppl. Stadium isn't happening unless you ppl complaining donate 100-200 million to the school. Good luck getting ppl to put their money where their mouth is.

This. at the "give me a 60000 seat stadium and call it a day" post. Give you? GIVE UM 200-300 million dollars and "call it a day". Buying a couple of Miami bricks and a savannah state ticket isn't doing a **** thing.

 

[UMFarArcher]

48,000. Much better to fill a well designed stadium than have ongoing trouble filling the seats of an overbuilt stadium.

Economics. Smaller is less costly to build, and yet stadium revenue of a slightly smaller stadium can be almost the same as the revenue of a larger stadium, when you only need the extra seats one or at the most two games per year.

The point is to get a stadium first. THEN adjust the ticket prices a bit to reflect occasional demand.

 

[TriniMike]

None of you artists on here has a futuristic "U" stadium we could see in the future as our home field? C'mon!?

 

[The Franchise]

A 50K seat stadium would be perfect, make it something like Minnesota's or Oregon's. Oh, and make it a wigger free zone.

You'd have 340 people in that 50K stadium if you banned wiggers.

 

[cane248]

50-55

 

[CANE4LIFE]

In our dream world where this would ever happen, the correct number is about a 50-52K seat stadium. Ideally one with an open endzone so we could add maybe 5-7K seats for bigger games.

The reality is all this 55k or 60K stuff is still too big. Even in our glory days, we couldnt pack more than 55K in during NIGHT games, when we were undefeated and top ranked, against even average opponents like BYU, Maryland, NC State, etc. It was worse with teams like Memphis, Tulsa, Miami, OH, etc when we were lucky to get about 45K.

The reality is apart from one or two big games a year, we would never sell out a 60K seat stadium.

And all these pipe dreams about Tropical Park and other places, did they build a Metro Rail to those places? If not, then the problem of getting students to the games, is not going to change. At least the OB was accessible from the Metrorail which students could grab across from campus. Tropical Park is closer, but still has the same issue as No Life Stadium as far as makign it easy for students to attend. The traffic situation by Tropical park would also be a calamity. And would require a decent investment in road expansion by the county, which is not likely to happen.

I would love a stadium for the Canes as much as anyone else, but I just dont see how it ever becomes a reality, not in the near to mid term future. The ONLY viable possiblity I can see, is IF the can configure Marlins Park for Football, we could move back there eventually and split the stadium with them, which sux because I hate playing football on baseball fields. OR, if we are REALLY lucky, the Marlins leave all together, and UM can modify the stadium a bit, and turn it into a combined Football and maybe MLS venue.

That is the only real possibility of us getting out of No Life anytime in the forseeable future.

 

[bomb]

In our dream world where this would ever happen, the correct number is about a 50-52K seat stadium. Ideally one with an open endzone so we could add maybe 5-7K seats for bigger games.

The reality is all this 55k or 60K stuff is still too big. Even in our glory days, we couldnt pack more than 55K in during NIGHT games, when we were undefeated and top ranked, against even average opponents like BYU, Maryland, NC State, etc. It was worse with teams like Memphis, Tulsa, Miami, OH, etc when we were lucky to get about 45K.

The reality is apart from one or two big games a year, we would never sell out a 60K seat stadium.

And all these pipe dreams about Tropical Park and other places, did they build a Metro Rail to those places? If not, then the problem of getting students to the games, is not going to change. At least the OB was accessible from the Metrorail which students could grab across from campus. Tropical Park is closer, but still has the same issue as No Life Stadium as far as makign it easy for students to attend. The traffic situation by Tropical park would also be a calamity. And would require a decent investment in road expansion by the county, which is not likely to happen.

I would love a stadium for the Canes as much as anyone else, but I just dont see how it ever becomes a reality, not in the near to mid term future. The ONLY viable possiblity I can see, is IF the can configure Marlins Park for Football, we could move back there eventually and split the stadium with them, which sux because I hate playing football on baseball fields. OR, if we are REALLY lucky, the Marlins leave all together, and UM can modify the stadium a bit, and turn it into a combined Football and maybe MLS venue.

That is the only real possibility of us getting out of No Life anytime in the forseeable future.

We've AVERAGED over 60k before. There will be a supply and demand benefit of a smaller stadium. If there is demand for 85,000 tickets at a UF or FSU type game, and we can only seat 62k, SOME of the people that get shut out now will shift to a lesser game. Suddenly it won't be easy to get a ticket to whatever game you want, and demand will increase. That's my economic opinion. A smaller stadium might hurt our average because we will lose those 75k days, but attendance will INCREASE for lesser games, offsetting those lost sales. We'd also be talking about a true college game day experience which will be more attractive that Joe Robbie Mausoleum.

Why I just typed all that, I have no idea. Its waste. None of this is happening.