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Ruiz family attempting to build a stadium in Coral Gables...

hoops156 said:
11k students who barely attend isn’t to be catered to and I went there just as you did. Most of the fans aren’t students or alums and they come from all over. Building a stadium in a **** feat traffic area for 11k is stupid
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Agreed, this is a terrible idea. Was glad to go to the Orange Bowl when I lived on campus. Now I live in Palm Beach. It would suck to drive to ***king CG. Besides, HR is a great venue. Never wanted a stadium on campus, but sure glad they opened the Rat my senior year. Epic times there.#CANESNATIONLIFER🙌🏽
 
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Groz73Cane said:
Agreed, this is a terrible idea. Was glad to go to the Orange Bowl when I lived on campus. Now I live in Palm Beach. It would suck to drive to ***king CG. Besides, HR is a great venue. Never wanted a stadium on campus, but sure glad they opened the Rat my senior year. Epic times there.#CANESNATIONLIFER🙌🏽
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So you're going from Palm Beach, through Broward, into Dade, and you are crying about another 13 miles?

Stay home.

And before you start whining, I drive from Orlando.
 
Groz73Cane said:
Agreed, this is a terrible idea. Was glad to go to the Orange Bowl when I lived on campus. Now I live in Palm Beach. It would suck to drive to ***king CG. Besides, HR is a great venue. Never wanted a stadium on campus, but sure glad they opened the Rat my senior year. Epic times there.#CANESNATIONLIFER🙌🏽
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Let’s just say no to a free stadium, millions and millions of potential additional revenue closer to campus for your convenience..
 
Yoyo82 said:
No it's not. 50k is perfect. Autzen stadium is only 54k and it can get loud in there. 50k would create great demand and never look pathetically empty when we're playing cupcakes or having a down season.
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I think there would be better student, faculty, employee support down in the Gables. The game day experience would be pretty collegiate. I'd like to be around 58-60k to be honest. But this is all space, parking and budget dependent of course, so that may be what is dictating the size too. I really just don't see how there could be enough parking, even with another lot close by. It is a short walk from the metro rail though so I am guessing that is a big part of their egress plan. Kids could literally walk (25-30 min~) from campus too though. I'd expect the surrounding neighborhoods to the north and west lose their minds and fight it like crazy too.
 
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hoops156 said:
11k students who barely attend isn’t to be catered to and I went there just as you did. Most of the fans aren’t students or alums and they come from all over. Building a stadium in a **** feat traffic area for 11k is stupid
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As a Lauderdale resident that really likes Hard Rock and thinks the atmosphere there can* be a yuge home field advantage, I have zero problem if the people that would be financing this would want it closer to Gables Estates than Las Olas Isles.

I think at the end of the day (with football especially) that it all comes down to quality of product and many less people would stay home due to inconvenience getting in and out than staying home because the concept of an empty stadium due to a garbage product isn't motivating.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Just to be clear, I have been posting variations of this for weeks. Buy the dirt mall immediately north of Magic City Casino. The footprint is the same size as the old Orange Bowl/current Marlins Stadium.
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the family that owns magic city casino are old-time supports of the U and the football program. however, the buyout of the casino is likely to be economically unfeasible.

if anything, the best place to build a new stadium is next to the existing marlins stadium. beckham and the mas brothers considered it but they could not assemble the land and they also thought there was bad ju ju after knocking down the old orange bowl. see pic
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paksat said:
Someone explain to me what a 1.5 billion stadium has wrong with it besides, "it's not on campus bro"
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It doesnt provide the optimal long term revenue for the program. A significant portion of revenue for most programs comes from the stadium. Furthermore, that 1.5 billion stadium isn’t yours. You cant do with it as you please. Want to put a museum in it dedicated to your program? Gotta ask permission.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Yes. And how much of the HRS footprint is now Dolphins practice facility/tennis center/Formula 1 racetrack?

I'm not pushing for CGHS as a site, but I don't have John Ruiz' (current or future) cash either...
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I only included the parking as I know it.
I can't post the imaging footprint from here at home.

I checked out TCU's 50,000 seat stadium footprint.
The stadium and immediate parking is 50 acres. A little more doable.
Although I am sure they were able to count the campus periphery parking to comply with parking calc's.

I would love to see it but I deal with this stuff on a smaller scale all the time.
 
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This feels like a win for those of us who've been adamant that Miami needs its own stadium.
It may never happen but the team should play in the city and not a stone's throw from Broward.
 
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brock said:
This mf serious about this lol
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He’s not thinking clearly, the city and neighborhoods east and west as well as north of it will fight like ****. I live west of the stadium and l can tell you we will fight like **** to shoot this down. It will destroy the quality of life around this monstrosity
 
antoniodelgad68 said:
He’s not thinking clearly, the city and neighborhoods east and west as well as north of it will fight like ****. I live west of the stadium and l can tell you we will fight like **** to shoot this down. It will destroy the quality of life around this monstrosity
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He’s delusional, the citizens will bury the council if they even consider this. The congestion and traffic is horrendous already with all the new construction, a new stadium will destroy property values and quality of life for all gables residents
 
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