Sun Life Stadium

[theEMPIRE]

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.

The OB had a majesty about it... & a bad@ss legacy... & not saying I'm not a huge fan of the layout of SLS...

But in what order do you all think one follows the other?

I have it as:

Winning > Fans > Stadium

 

[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.

SLS was built to accommodate baseball, not soccer.

No it was designed for Football and Soccer only since Joe Robbie owned both the Miami Toros and FL Strikers soccer team at the time plus the Dolphins. In it original form JRS could not accommodate baseball. JRS was adapted for MLB and it took over $10M to yank out the seating sections that are now at the Dolphin's Davie practice site to re-configure the stadium for baseball. Yes, Joe Robbie knew if baseball ever came to South Florida he could spend money to modify JRS to fit in baseball but the wide sidelines were from soccer. Even the Orange Bowl has had baseball played in that staduim we all loved but it was never designed for baseball. The minor league MLB baseball team occasionally played games in the Orange Bowl from 1956 to 1960.

Here is the proof from Wiki; "Robbie also owned the Miami Toros and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers (later the Minnesota Strikers) soccer teams of the North American Soccer League. Joe Robbie Stadium was one of the first major stadiums in the US designed with soccer in mind."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Robbie

 

[McGahee2TheHouse]

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.

And you think people feared playing in the OB from 2006-2007? How about during probation in the 90's? The OB sure had opponents shaking in their boots those years. The OB's home field advantage sure contributed to some wins those years.

The OB was without a doubt a better stadium for a lot of reasons. But it's a joke to keep implying that the OB had this inherent magic that made ****** Canes teams more intimidating because of the mere fact they played in the OB.

Stadiums don't win games, unless the team itself is good, no matter how loud the stadium is, no matter how close the seats are, no matter how many home wins the stadium has. The Swamp, one of the supposed "scariest" venues in all of college football didn't scare anyone last year nor in the last few years for the Gators. Couldn't even scare Georgia Southern into a loss.

 

[bxcanesbomber]

I read recently that we might be able to build a stadium for ourselves (well kinda) if we team up with David Beckhams new soccer team and it will be closer to the campus than sunlife is it won't be as big but it will serve as home field advantage.

 

[cane since birth]

My sons and I went to the UM-BC basketball game at BUC this past Saturday. The BUC is a great place to see a basketball game. If you remove the 10 student band from the student section, there were probably 15 students there supporting the team. I used to think that the poor student attendance at the football games was due, in part, to the distance of Sun Life from campus. Given the fact that the BUC is on campus, I am now calling bullisht on the distance rationale for poor student attendance at the football games.

Dont they bus students to SLS?
The distance shouldnt be a factor at all if you are a true fan, people only go to big games too, because we were ranked in the top ten and we were playing in a conference game against wake and the stadium still looked empty, to be honest i really dont know what makes people not go to games

But back to the point everything everyone else said i agree on

 

[Kirijax]

I'm going to use the cursed word but why don't they just go ahead and "tarp" the top section? Maybe they do but the pics I've seen has everyone scattered all over the stadium. Bring everyone down to the lower level and figure out a way to add some seats to the sidelines to make it more of a "college football experience". Has there been talk about that or is it just not possible?

Instead of wishing our way out of Sun Life, there have got to be some ideas to make it better. Seems to be the cheaper way to go.

And just for the record, whoever thought that putting the football team of a 15,000 student private school in a sports-riddled city was a good idea needs to find another line of work. That was some genius planning and foresight right there.

 

[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.

And you think people feared playing in the OB from 2006-2007? How about during probation in the 90's? The OB sure had opponents shaking in their boots those years. The OB's home field advantage sure contributed to some wins those years.

The OB was without a doubt a better stadium for a lot of reasons. But it's a joke to keep implying that the OB had this inherent magic that made ****ty Canes teams more intimidating because of the mere fact they played in the OB.

Stadiums don't win games, unless the team itself is good, no matter how loud the stadium is, no matter how close the seats are, no matter how many home wins the stadium has. The Swamp, one of the supposed "scariest" venues in all of college football didn't scare anyone last year nor in the last few years for the Gators. Couldn't even scare Georgia Southern into a loss.

Obviously the outcome of the game is determined on the field; however, if you do not think stadiums have an impact on games you are delusional and uniformed. What I am saying is that when you have a talented team on the field, who plays at a stadium that provides a major home field advantage (like the Orange Bowl) you are putting the team in position to be successful. It is no coincidence that the largest home win streaks in NCAA and NFL history took place in the Orange Bowl. Sun Life stadium is a joke and does not provide us that advantage. 50k at the Orange Bowl was much louder than 50k at Sun Life.