forums

Can Miami be Elite Again?

Advertisement
IbzRlz said:
No, we're not already back. Still have NEVER won the ACC and only made 1 ACC Championship game appearance, didn't make the expanded CFP. Winning 10 games is nice and all, but we are NOT back, yet
Click to expand...

Everything in your post is irrelevant except the part about winning 10 games last season. College football is not the same as it was 15, 10 or even three years ago.

Right now, Vegas has only eight teams with an expected win total higher than ours.

That means we are in the running for a playoff spot. In today’s college football, that is as back as 90% of all teams can hope to get.
 
Canesq said:
I think you’d be surprised. It’s really the opponents that affect attendance.

But I think South Florida is so starved for football excellence that we would have good attendance even for non marquee teams especially if the dolphins crap the bed next season and they fire the head coach and gm and start over. UM would be a great value as far as season tickets.
Click to expand...
I sat n the Orange Bowl with 35,000 fans to watch UM beat Temple in 2001. Attendance is what it is. We will get 65,000 for FSU or Notre Dame but maybe 40,000 butts in seats for mediocre noon conference games. At this point it’s just the way it is.
 
Keep building-

Keep stacking talent-

I never thought we would have a Cam Ward and Damien Martinez-

If we can stack talent offensively and defensively all in the same year-

I believe we can get there at least once-

Return to glory by winning it all-Why the **** not.
 
Advertisement
Go Canes!! said:
Everything in your post is irrelevant except the part about winning 10 games last season. College football is not the same as it was 15, 10 or even three years ago.

Right now, Vegas has only eight teams with an expected win total higher than ours.

That means we are in the running for a playoff spot. In today’s college football, that is as back as 90% of all teams can hope to get.
Click to expand...
LMAO...other than last year, when has Miami went over the Vegas win total? If that is your barometer of being back, pretty weak
 
DoctorKrazey said:
The thing is, there really aren’t any more excuses. On paper, this one of the best coaching staffs we’ve had in a very long time and definitely Mario’s best staff since being here. The talent level(last year and this year) is the best we’ve had in a very long time and easily good enough to make a run in the playoff. The financial investment into the program is the best we’ve had in a very long time. Just win the **** ACC please, for the love of god, and make a decent run in the playoff and I’ll be happy for 25’.
Click to expand...
What was the excuse in 2024? Bad defense? Well, who put that defense together? Every year it's always no more excuses, then come the excuses lol
 
Last edited:
DTP said:
I sat n the Orange Bowl with 35,000 fans to watch UM beat Temple in 2001. Attendance is what it is. We will get 65,000 for FSU or Notre Dame but maybe 40,000 butts in seats for mediocre noon conference games. At this point it’s just the way it is.
Click to expand...
We were ranked TWENTY-SEVENTH in AVERAGE ATTENDANCE in 2024.

Attendance bull**** has got to stop.

Screenshot 2025-03-04 at 1.59.57 PM (2).png
 
Last edited:
Advertisement
caneingville said:
Here’s the individual game attendance breakdown too:View attachment 320838
Click to expand...
Our attendance is ok considering we play in a 65,000 seat stadium that’s bigger than most teams outside a handful of Big10 and SEC schools. We were 56th in capacity%.

Also attendance is counted by tickets sold not necessarily actual people in attendance. Season tickets get counted for every game regardless of whether or not they get used. Season tickets sales tend to increase for years when FSU is a home game. We will have full stadiums for big games and 40-45 thousand people for weaker opponents that’s just how it is and always has been. I went to the FAMU game this year. It was a good turnout for an FCS opponent but there wasn’t close to 58,000 people there. Probably closer to 48,000. If we can sell between 50-60,000 tickets on average that’s a good year.
 
DTP said:
Our attendance is ok considering we play in a 65,000 seat stadium that’s bigger than most teams outside a handful of Big10 and SEC schools. We were 56th in capacity%.

Also attendance is counted by tickets sold not necessarily actual people in attendance. Season tickets get counted for every game regardless of whether or not they get used. Season tickets sales tend to increase for years when FSU is a home game. We will have full stadiums for big games and 40-45 thousand people for weaker opponents that’s just how it is and always has been. I went to the FAMU game this year. It was a good turnout for an FCS opponent but there wasn’t close to 58,000 people there. Probably closer to 48,000. If we can sell between 50-60,000 tickets on average that’s a good year.
Click to expand...
Capacity % was 92.5% though, so it wasn’t like it was bad. And the season tickets is for everyone. I’ve said on here many times that I haven’t seen UF actually full in close to 20 years.

FSU isn’t always our highest. 2017 they were behind VT and ND.
 
Advertisement
caneingville said:
Capacity % was 92.5% though, so it wasn’t like it was bad. And the season tickets is for everyone. I’ve said on here many times that I haven’t seen UF actually full in close to 20 years.

FSU isn’t always our highest. 2017 they were behind VT and ND.
Click to expand...
UF’s. Capacity is over 80,000 though. Regardless, we sold a very decent amount of tickets last year and we tend to sell more on years when FSU is a home game. There’s always a certain percentage of people that buy season tickets, go to one or two home games and then the rest of the year their seats are empty.
 
Advertisement
DTP said:
UF’s. Capacity is over 80,000 though. Regardless, we sold a very decent amount of tickets last year and we tend to sell more on years when FSU is a home game. There’s always a certain percentage of people that buy season tickets, go to one or two home games and then the rest of the year their seats are empty.
Click to expand...
Oh but UF can be worse than that. I’ve sat through a LOT of games that are empty. Not even close to 30K by the 3rd quarter. Or maybe 60 to start. They lie too. Everyone does.

And yes, I know people fly down for the FSU games too. But still if you go look at the numbers YoY (even individually), they do improve. And people need to realize that even at our worst years, being Top 45 when we are bottom 10-15 in undergrad enrollment is OUTKICKING our coverage. We have 12K undergrads, and when I was a student in the late 90s we had something like 5K students and 100k living alumni total. To compare us to FSU and UF (who are both reducing stadium capacity!) is insane.
 
Advertisement
Back
Top