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Not that this means much for the Canes in the short term, but I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise dull article about the AAC making its own bowl game that the Marlins Park Management stated the stadium can be reconfigured for football. It makes it more feasible, at least, that if the Marlins ever move out the Canes can move in someday.

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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...letic-conference-may-create-its-own-bowl-game
 
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db988 said:
Not that this means much for the Canes in the short term, but I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise dull article about the AAC making its own bowl game that the Marlins Park Management stated the stadium can be reconfigured for football. It makes it more feasible, at least, that if the Marlins ever move out the Canes can move in somed
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The Canes will NEVER play there again. It's now a baseball only facility and will remain so the rest of my lifetime. Stories like this are nothing but pie in the sky, false hope bullshìt. They can squeeze in a playing surface for a sport other than baseball; but, it will be a complete abortion. People need to move on. Unless a tornado destroys the place, it will remain a mostly empty baseball white elephant for 50 years.

And, it kills me to say that.
 
The Marlins new stadium is the reason why the Dolphins couldn't get their proposal through, thus ******** the Canes.
 
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Dingaan1828 said:
db988 said:
Not that this means much for the Canes in the short term, but I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise dull article about the AAC making its own bowl game that the Marlins Park Management stated the stadium can be reconfigured for football. It makes it more feasible, at least, that if the Marlins ever move out the Canes can move in somed
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The Canes will NEVER play there again. It's now a baseball only facility and will remain so the rest of my lifetime. Stories like this are nothing but pie in the sky, false hope bullshìt. They can squeeze in a playing surface for a sport other than baseball; but, it will be a complete abortion. People need to move on. Unless a tornado destroys the place, it will remain a mostly empty baseball white elephant for 50 years.

And, it kills me to say that.
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I disagree. I think it is more likely than not that the Marlins relocate in the next 3 years. That stadium could be retrofitted into a football stadium for $50-60 mm. Crazier things have happened.
 
No way the Marleens last another 10 years in SoFla. Unless Lauria sells the franchise to someone halfway interested in keeping a competitive team in tact, and ripping that god**** homerun sculpture abortion down, they are doomed. If it wasn't for the Miami skyline over the left field bleachers and the ridiculous trim out in the Clevelander, that stadium would be a total waste. Hope they move el beisbol to North Dakota where these owners belong, and let us renovate on our property. They are playing on an indian burial ground.
 
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The idea of the Marlins relocating within the next 3 years is lunacy. There's a thing called a lease to deal with and no way in **** Bud Selig & Co. is letting the team pull out of Miami after supporting a new stadium. And where are they going? No one is crying for a MLB franchise. Now if someone were to suggest the team could have new ownership, well, yeah, that's a bit more realistic.
 
Do you guys not understand how small the actual structure is? It will never be an adequate football stadium, but hey...keep dreaming.
 
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This must be a "money grab" for the Marlins, because I was specifically told by a Marlin official that though a football field COULD fit in the stadium, it would be a tight fit and the seating capacity would have to be reduced.

I guess "the former Big East", now AAC, must not be expecting very many people to attend this bowl game.
 
Dingaan1828 said:
db988 said:
Not that this means much for the Canes in the short term, but I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise dull article about the AAC making its own bowl game that the Marlins Park Management stated the stadium can be reconfigured for football. It makes it more feasible, at least, that if the Marlins ever move out the Canes can move in somed
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The Canes will NEVER play there again. It's now a baseball only facility and will remain so the rest of my lifetime. Stories like this are nothing but pie in the sky, false hope bullshìt. They can squeeze in a playing surface for a sport other than baseball; but, it will be a complete abortion. People need to move on. Unless a tornado destroys the place, it will remain a mostly empty baseball white elephant for 50 years.

And, it kills me to say that.
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The ignorance of ur comment exposes u as ignorant of South Florida history. The minute Marlin Stadium was proposed, there was no doubt in my mind that it would eventually become the home lf the Hurricanes.

Anyone with a sliver of brain and knowledge of Miami history can see this coming.
 
Dandycane said:
Dingaan1828 said:
db988 said:
Not that this means much for the Canes in the short term, but I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise dull article about the AAC making its own bowl game that the Marlins Park Management stated the stadium can be reconfigured for football. It makes it more feasible, at least, that if the Marlins ever move out the Canes can move in somed
Click to expand...

The Canes will NEVER play there again. It's now a baseball only facility and will remain so the rest of my lifetime. Stories like this are nothing but pie in the sky, false hope bullshìt. They can squeeze in a playing surface for a sport other than baseball; but, it will be a complete abortion. People need to move on. Unless a tornado destroys the place, it will remain a mostly empty baseball white elephant for 50 years.

And, it kills me to say that.
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The ignorance of ur comment exposes u as ignorant of South Florida history. The minute Marlin Stadium was proposed, there was no doubt in my mind that it would eventually become the home lf the Hurricanes.

Anyone with a sliver of brain and knowledge of Miami history can see this coming.
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That stadium, as is, would be terrible for football. I can't see how it would work unless you spend a couple hundred million reconfiguring the stadium.
 
I'm retired (thank you dear leader), for a parsimonious fee I would be willing to come down four times a month to show the city and the Marlins organization how to make money at the Flying Saucer Dome. Same goes for JRS (or whatever it's called now). Their marketing people are incapable of thinking out of the box.

I wager that the posters here can come up with better marketing ideas than the "pros." I would like to see a thread on that. What say you?
 
The Marlins aren't going anywhere. The 'Canes will never play football on that sacred ground ever again, unless it's a charity flag football game on the outfield grass.

Unless the University raises the funds for their own stadium, we will be stuck at Sun Life for a very long time.
 
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RBhurricane87 said:
The Marlins aren't going anywhere. The 'Canes will never play football on that sacred ground ever again, unless it's a charity flag football game on the outfield grass.

Unless the University raises the funds for their own stadium, we will be stuck at Sun Life for a very long time.
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Golden and his wisdom will end up with a spring game or practice there if I know him well enough.....not in 2014 or 2015 but soon
 
I am impressed with the amount of definitive statements about the future. Rather than get overly excited about it one way or another, I'll sit back and see whether a disaster unfolds with the bowl game, or whether that experiment produces solid evidence that football can be played there regularly with reasonable adjustments.

Based on most of the threads and posts, here is a prediction of my own:

- Sunlife -- people will continue to complain about it
- Marlins Park -- people will continue to complain about it
- Unborn Hurricane Storm Center/OB2 -- people will continue to yell that it will never happen, and if it ever does, will then commence the complaining about it
 
RBhurricane87 said:
The Marlins aren't going anywhere. The 'Canes will never play football on that sacred ground ever again, unless it's a charity flag football game on the outfield grass.

Unless the University raises the funds for their own stadium, we will be stuck at Sun Life for a very long time.
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Miami has a Latino government with a South American / third world mentality. Anything that will not happen, can happen and probably will.

Contracts and agreements are essentially meaningless.
 
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