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that is a left wing site that will send you countless emails on how great BIG Gov is....*** that petition its been out there at least 3 years with like 3000 sigs.....if it will happen it aint due to some left wing site...
 
THere's an opportunity with Beckham's soccer stadium It should be explored seriously by the university. This will happen and the U can be involved, in whatever capacity. Get proactive with the parties involved. They will listen !
 
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I don't see a way to get a stadium other then selling the whole Coral Gables Campus which would probably provide enough capital to build another campus twice it's present size with a stadium included in west Kendall or the Redlands. I'm kidding but it's about as good as some of the pipe dreams I've heard elsewhere. Having said that, the decision to leave the OB and play at Sun Life was a monumental mistake. Besides logistical issues it is a terrible stadium. Elizabeth Robbie wanted it to accommodate soccer others wanted it to accommodate baseball. The result is a plastic stadium ideal for nothing. It was as much a mistake for us to move there as it was for the Dolphins. Stadiums have to have a personality. The OB did Sun Life doesn't. There is no home field advantage. Fill it up and it will still be a cold plastic stadium. We have to find a solution. Sun Life is pushing 30 so maybe a new football stadium that both the Dolphins and the Canes can share in Downtown Miami ala Heinz field will start to emerge in the next few years. Until that happens Miami will have to run their program in spite of where they play.
 
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ramcanes said:
THere's an opportunity with Beckham's soccer stadium It should be explored seriously by the university. This will happen and the U can be involved, in whatever capacity. Get proactive with the parties involved. They will listen !
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Like I said in another post, those in charge during the 60's had no vision to acquire land and develop a stadium near the U. There was a lot of land out to the SW of the university, probably the land per acre was worth about a years tuition in those days. They lacked the vision to get on board with the program the economics of the future of CFB.
 
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What if we knocked down that dumb track and field stadium/girls soccer field and built over greentree and paved the way for a nice little campus stadium there? that would literally be ON campus.... I know this might sound dumb and it would be very very tight in terms of space but I don't see why we couldn't make it work.

It would be three trillion times better than what we have now I don't give a **** if its a 5000 person stadium.

We would obviously have to pave over the parking lot of the gym but I feel ilke it could happen. It'd be pretty cool to have the baseball field, the BUC, and a nice sized stadium there with a track around the field or something. It'd be pretty **** awesome.. what I would give to just be like most other football colleges in the country....
 
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Civil Engineers laugh at every single one of the on campus ideas.

Completely and totally not possible.
 
eleganttomcat said:
What if we knocked down that dumb track and field stadium/girls soccer field and built over greentree and paved the way for a nice little campus stadium there? that would literally be ON campus.... I know this might sound dumb and it would be very very tight in terms of space but I don't see why we couldn't make it work.

It would be three trillion times better than what we have now I don't give a **** if its a 5000 person stadium.

We would obviously have to pave over the parking lot of the gym but I feel ilke it could happen. It'd be pretty cool to have the baseball field, the BUC, and a nice sized stadium there with a track around the field or something. It'd be pretty **** awesome.. what I would give to just be like most other football colleges in the country....
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lol lets just bulldoze the entire campus and forget about the students. lets only accommodate the 85 football players (75 this year but it should be back up to 85).
 
sstcane said:
The problem is the roadways into Coral Gables won't allow that to happen.
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that isn't the only problem lol. have u ever dealt w the city of coral gables? even if we had the room on campus, the residents would never approve an on campus stadium. i remember my sophomore or junior year they shut down talb kwelis homecoming concert bc it went past 12 and the city has a noise ordinance. the city hates the school. it took em like 50 million years to finally approve building an overpass over US-1 so students wouldn't die crossing the street (u know miami drivers red means green).
 
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We could easily fit a stadium the size of Georgia Tech's, which seats 55,000 but is jammed into a small space right in the middle of the their campus. It would fit over the soccer/track stadium and the football practice fields. That's not the problem. The problem is Coral Gables they made it so hard for us to get the 8,000 seat BUC done (it was supposed to be 9,000 seats) there is no way they'd approve this
 
No chance in Coral Gables, the only thing they like about the U are the taxes paid and money students spend in the community. If the U moved (not going to happen) what would Coral Gables be like.
 
cubin10 said:
No chance in Coral Gables, the only thing they like about the U are the taxes paid and money students spend in the community. If the U moved (not going to happen) what would Coral Gables be like.
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a less crowded nice area...that the folks in coral gables would welcome....

they are not great neighbors,,,
 
Gamineal said:
cubin10 said:
No chance in Coral Gables, the only thing they like about the U are the taxes paid and money students spend in the community. If the U moved (not going to happen) what would Coral Gables be like.
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a less crowded nice area...that the folks in coral gables would welcome....

they are not great neighbors,,,
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One would think their tax base would shrink and thus an increase in taxes, will always be a nice area, just will cost the people there more money to be there, oh well!
 
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