Sun Life Stadium

[Consigliere]

People like to **** about it, but in reality the only major drawback is the distance from the field. Parking is better, tailgating is better, bathrooms are better, food is better, replay/jumbo trons exist...

The most amusing part to me is the people that want to talk about atmosphere, comparable to the OB and always leave out that Miami had great teams for a decade plus in the OB. How was the "atmosphere" during the last game vs UVA???

Sorry to thread jack but I will strongly disagree.

As a student from 2003-07 my experiences were always better in the OB than No Life. No Life offers nothing in terms of home field advantage and this is the biggest issue I have with the No Life stadium. We have no game day experience for 85-90% of the games.

When you win, people will attend games. When people attend games, the game day experience is better. When the game day experience is better, there is a decided home field advantage. When there is a decided home field advantage, Consigliere is happy. Win games and Consigliere will be happy.

I don't think there will be a dramatic increase from winning alone.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

People like to **** about it, but in reality the only major drawback is the distance from the field. Parking is better, tailgating is better, bathrooms are better, food is better, replay/jumbo trons exist...

The most amusing part to me is the people that want to talk about atmosphere, comparable to the OB and always leave out that Miami had great teams for a decade plus in the OB. How was the "atmosphere" during the last game vs UVA???

Sorry to thread jack but I will strongly disagree.

As a student from 2003-07 my experiences were always better in the OB than No Life. No Life offers nothing in terms of home field advantage and this is the biggest issue I have with the No Life stadium. We have no game day experience for 85-90% of the games.

When you win, people will attend games. When people attend games, the game day experience is better. When the game day experience is better, there is a decided home field advantage. When there is a decided home field advantage, Consigliere is happy. Win games and Consigliere will be happy.

I don't think there will be a dramatic increase from winning alone.

I don't think UM will ever see a dramatic increase in attendance, regardless of W/L record or venue.

We've pretty much proven that, when we win, we'll only get big crowds for big games against ranked opponents, whether we play in SLS or in the OB or wherever else.

But even then, in any given season, we're bound to have only one or two big home games against ranked opponents...the remaining 4-5 home games will always get 40k max.

 

[Cane7451]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

 

[Consigliere]

We've pretty much proven that, when we win, we'll only get big crowds for big games against ranked opponents, whether we play in SLS or in the OB or wherever else.

But even then, in any given season, we're bound to have only one or two big homes games against ranked opponents...the remaining 4-5 homes games will always get 40k max.

That is why I think the following would be the BEST of a terrible situation.

Assume we have 6 home games a year...

4-5 Games should be at this new smaller venue that can hold 40K. We can have a packed house for these games.

1-2 Games (maybe FSU or ND in the future) have at the bigger stadium like Sun Life.

Perhaps this can be used as a way to get out of the current lease and have a better experience overall.

 

[OldManCane]

the orange bowl used to be called burdine stadium and it only seated 20,000 people when it opened back in the late 30's. before that we played in tamiami. the city of miami built burdine stadium just for the university of miami, it wasn't until the 60's that the dolphins joined and they were an expansion team for the afl.

 

[Dingaan1828]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

It was designed for football, baseball and soccer. If soccer wasn't part of the initial design, the place wouldn't look like it does.

 

[OldManCane]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

It was designed for football, baseball and soccer. If soccer wasn't part of the initial design, the place wouldn't look like it does.

It was designed for baseball. Baseball could never play in the orange bowl, back in the day university of miami baseball would play in the lot next to the orange bowl they would just tarp it off.

 

[Dingaan1828]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

It was designed for football, baseball and soccer. If soccer wasn't part of the initial design, the place wouldn't look like it does.

It was designed for baseball. Baseball could never play in the orange bowl, back in the day university of miami baseball would play in the lot next to the orange bowl they would just tarp it off.

What part of football, baseball and soccer did you miss?

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

It was designed for football, baseball and soccer. If soccer wasn't part of the initial design, the place wouldn't look like it does.

Baseball was the primary concern. Soccer was a bonus that could be accommodated with the additional space afforded by the design needed for football and baseball.

"Robbie believed it was only a matter of time before a Major League Baseball team came to South Florida. At his request, the stadium was built so only minimal renovations would be necessary to ready it for a baseball team. Most notably, the field was made somewhat wider than is normally the case for an NFL stadium. The wide field also makes it fairly easy to convert the stadium for soccer.

Because of this design decision, the first row of seats is 90 feet (27 m) from the sideline in a football configuration, considerably more distant than the first row of seats in most football stadiums (the closest seats at the new Soldier Field, for instance, are 55 feet (17 m) from the sideline at the 50-yard line). This resulted in a less intimate venue for football compared to other football facilities built around this time, as well as to the Orange Bowl."

 

[Dingaan1828]

It's a soccer configuration to start with. That's really not hard to see. When the stadium in Charlotte was built, they specifically said they didn't use the JRS model because it was designed to be multi-purpose, including soccer, which put the stands to far away from the sidelines for football.

But, you win.

 

[rudebuddha]

One renovation to SLS would make a huge difference: move the seats 10 yards closer to the field.

We will never sell out every game, but one of the scary details about the Orange Bowl for opposing teams was that the fans were real close.
Opposing teams didn't take off their helmets at the Orange Bowl.

 

[TheEye]

The Panthers used to share an arena with the Heat and Canes. The Dolphins used to share a stadium with the Canes and Marlins. Considering how few Miamians attend games, I think this was the most profitable move to make. Giving everyone their own stadiums is idiotic until teams can prove to be a draw on a regular basis.

 

[calleja]

Anyone here have season tickets? I did in '09, then never re-upped: the experience is weak... like a lot of things in Florida, the stadium is a) too big, b) too far and c) inaccessible by any other mode of transport than car. Also, parking costs were a f**ng affront to society.

I went to school in the SEC with the stadium on campus. Obviously that will NEVER happen with the Canes; however with a location IN THE CITY, the marketing schemes to put butts in seats would always produce much higher turnout.

But let's keep it real: Canes are playing in SLS for another 30.

 

[Hurracanes]

Better bathrooms. That's about it. The place sucks.

People like to **** about it, but in reality the only major drawback is the distance from the field. Parking is better, tailgating is better, bathrooms are better, food is better, replay/jumbo trons exist...

The most amusing part to me is the people that want to talk about atmosphere, comparable to the OB and always leave out that Miami had great teams for a decade plus in the OB. How was the "atmosphere" during the last game vs UVA???

Sorry to thread jack but I will strongly disagree.

As a student from 2003-07 my experiences were always better in the OB than No Life. No Life offers nothing in terms of home field advantage and this is the biggest issue I have with the No Life stadium. We have no game day experience for 85-90% of the games.

People like to **** about it, but in reality the only major drawback is the distance from the field. Parking is better, tailgating is better, bathrooms are better, food is better, replay/jumbo trons exist...

The most amusing part to me is the people that want to talk about atmosphere, comparable to the OB and always leave out that Miami had great teams for a decade plus in the OB. How was the "atmosphere" during the last game vs UVA???

Sorry to thread jack but I will strongly disagree.

As a student from 2003-07 my experiences were always better in the OB than No Life. No Life offers nothing in terms of home field advantage and this is the biggest issue I have with the No Life stadium. We have no game day experience for 85-90% of the games.

07 the experience in the ob was horrendous outside of the tamu game. We couldn't beg ppl to go to those countless noon games

I actually graduated in May 07 so I didn't attend many games that year. The point still remains, there was an atmosphere in the OB. There is no atmosphere in the No Life.

I love the OB and see your overall point, but there was absolutely no atmosphere for any game besides TAMU that year. For example, I'm looking back to the Nc. St. game where Kirby went 1-13, and I am struggling to remember any sort of game day vibe or atmosphere that day.

What stadium would have an atmosphere with that kind of performance? I remember that game. Overall, the atmosphere at the OB was like no other. Sun Life is one of the worst atmospheres in all of college football.

 

[TrueCane100]

The south fla fanbase is pathetic also

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I detect only two positives:

* Opportunity to wager on the visiting team with confidence

* Greatest reference point ever. When the Dolphins and Canes leave Sun Life Stadium, that's when the positive vibes have a chance. Until that point, it's thousands of articles and threads, but mostly pointless. The stadium is too great of a regulator to overcome. It's not merely the 2.5 points per game on average that we forfeited after the move from the Orange Bowl, although that's devastating enough. Quite simply, leaders who know what they are doing wouldn't be playing in this stadium. Therefore you can't expect them to hire the ideal coach, and those coaches won't attract or guide championship caliber rosters. It's a natural correlation, IMO. Stephen Ross is an idiot. No hope for him. I like Shalala and prefer to blame the Orange Bowl decision on Paul Dee. Either way, it's a disaster that this program couldn't afford. I'm into my 50s and saw titles I never dared imagine when I was a kid attending games on Friday nights. I feel bad for younger fans who might be stuck with this stadium situation for the bulk of their lives.

 

[4Canes]

Anyone here have season tickets? I did in '09, then never re-upped: the experience is weak... like a lot of things in Florida, the stadium is a) too big, b) too far and c) inaccessible by any other mode of transport than car. Also, parking costs were a f**ng affront to society.

I went to school in the SEC with the stadium on campus. Obviously that will NEVER happen with the Canes; however with a location IN THE CITY, the marketing schemes to put butts in seats would always produce much higher turnout.

But let's keep it real: Canes are playing in SLS for another 30.

Your commitment to the program is really admirable.

 

[itsacanething]

I wish the seats were closer to the field.. and that it was a bit more intimate.. other than that.. it's a solid overall game day experience.

Agreed the one issue I have with SLS is the seats need to be closer to the field. The reason they aren't is because SLS was build to accommodate soccer that makes the sidelines too wide. I loved the OB where the seats were on top of the field.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

no sls was built initially to accommodate soccer as per joe robie's wishes. it was subsequently modified to accommodate baseball.

 

[Hurracanes]

There is not a single team in this country that fears playing at Miami anymore. Two years ago, VT's QB went on record saying he wasn't worried about playing at Miami because it doesn't get loud. Bobby Bowden and Dan Marino are on record saying the stadium lacks home field advantage. No real Canes fan likes that stadium.