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Will we ever get new stadium?

cane305 said:
Cane Steve said:
You know by sharing a field with the Dolphins, we don't have to "keep up with it" right? Dolphins will also have a nice stadium, or at least one that will attract a super bowl (thus you see the roof thing they are thinking of).

It may not be on campus or be the loudest stadium, but it works just fine for what we need and win we win, it will be full.
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This guy gets it
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I agree, great post. IIRC, before selling it, Huizenga actually gave us a very sweet deal. The real issue is when the lease runs out.
 
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BigCaneAl said:
Nice rendering, but I doubt we could ever afford something that expensive....I'd settle for something nicer than what FAU just built in the 100-150 million range. Naming rights + one big donation and halfway there.
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The renderings are of the Baylor University's new stadium. Seating for 45,000, with capability to expand to 55,000 seats. The estimated cost is $250M. The alumni are funding it. Baylor is a small, private school similar in size to Miami.

A new stadium is coming, but not until ncaa sanctions are well clear and President Schalala is gone and new AD has arrived.
 
BigCaneAl said:
Nice rendering, but I doubt we could ever afford something that expensive....I'd settle for something nicer than what FAU just built in the 100-150 million range. Naming rights + one big donation and halfway there.
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It's $250 million...and a portion of that is going to road improvements.
 
Playing in that stadium year after year equates to getting hammered, far beyond anything the NCAA will do to us
 
It's just a terrible stadium

The actual stadium is a hybrid baseball field with the stands too far away from the sidelines

And the neighborhood is WOAT
 
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All we need is a real donor with 100 million who will only donate for a stadium.
 
thCAOLUECO.webpThey just broke ground
 
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5Ringz said:
It's just a terrible stadium

The actual stadium is a hybrid baseball field with the stands too far away from the sidelines

And the neighborhood is WOAT
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does it really matter what the neighborhood is when your tailgating inside the stadium parking lots. its not like back in the oB where ur parking in the middle of the hood on peoples lawns screaming no block and buying an arepa and chicken on a stick on the walk to the stadium
 
it doesnt matter where we play as long as we win. this stadium issue is only a issue bc were not winning. u think if u build a new stadium itll magically be full. we dont get 50k in the stands right now and its not bc of the stadium its bc we suck right now. the OB was empty when we were bad and even in our successful years it wasnt full every game. if u guys r looking for a packed stadium every week its not gonna happen. tickets may be sold out but the seats wont be completely filled. miami is an event town so when the big games come we show up but when its a subpar opponent get ready to see a lot of empty seats. just the way it is get used to it
 
The sentiment among Miami fans on this forum seems to be that Miami is just fine in this area and despite the fact that all of college football is moving in the opposite direction our UofM is making the right decision by continuing to put nothing into its football program and continuing to have no home for its football team.

These fans and supporters are the very reason why we find ourselves so far behind the college football world. They don't want greatness and improvment for our program and student athletes. The delusionally feel that UofM is above it all. Reality doesn't seem to support them much and the 80's and 90's get further away by the year. They flat out refuse to budge and refuse to want progress. They refuse to discuss it as something worth working toward.

It is a very odd mindset and one that really only lives among Miami fans. Everyone else moves forward and grows.
 
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Scanedalous said:
The sentiment among Miami fans on this forum seems to be that Miami is just fine in this area and despite the fact that all of college football is moving in the opposite direction our UofM is making the right decision by continuing to put nothing into its football program and continuing to have no home for its football team.

These fans and supporters are the very reason why we find ourselves so far behind the college football world. They don't want greatness and improvment for our program and student athletes. The delusionally feel that UofM is above it all. Reality doesn't seem to support them much and the 80's and 90's get further away by the year. They flat out refuse to budge and refuse to want progress. They refuse to discuss it as something worth working toward.

It is a very odd mindset and one that really only lives among Miami fans. Everyone else moves forward and grows.
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dude we all want a stadium but we know its not realistic so we dont get caught up in it. its what it is accept the reality or move on. youve done this on another thread too. create a financing plan that doesnt involve the county, a viable location for it (dont say UM bc there isnt any room on campus, the campus is landlocked, and the fact that its in coral gables is a huge roadblock), and the realistic chances that it could happen not just stating we need a stadium and people who dont think that will happen are the problem as u said
 
hoops156 said:
it doesnt matter where we play as long as we win. this stadium issue is only a issue bc were not winning. u think if u build a new stadium itll magically be full. we dont get 50k in the stands right now and its not bc of the stadium its bc we suck right now. the OB was empty when we were bad and even in our successful years it wasnt full every game. if u guys r looking for a packed stadium every week its not gonna happen. tickets may be sold out but the seats wont be completely filled. miami is an event town so when the big games come we show up but when its a subpar opponent get ready to see a lot of empty seats. just the way it is get used to it
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Winning doesn't just happen. Winning is a by product of commitment. Where you play is a sign of that commitment. We are looking for something that makes more sense for our student body, alumni and community. You are correct, the Orange Bowl was also not a great fit for UofM. How about fixing that problem like every other school in america seems to be doing?

Again, financially speaking it makes very little sense for UofM to play another 90 years of football under a proven failed business model. It is clearly time to do a 180. Only the ignorant or self defeatist would think otherwise. "Winning cures all", hasn't actually lived up to its mythology over the last 30 years.
 
sweet lets fix the problem but u arent proposing a solution just saying we need to fix something.
 
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Scanedalous said:
The sentiment among Miami fans on this forum seems to be that Miami is just fine in this area and despite the fact that all of college football is moving in the opposite direction our UofM is making the right decision by continuing to put nothing into its football program and continuing to have no home for its football team.

These fans and supporters are the very reason why we find ourselves so far behind the college football world. They don't want greatness and improvment for our program and student athletes. The delusionally feel that UofM is above it all. Reality doesn't seem to support them much and the 80's and 90's get further away by the year. They flat out refuse to budge and refuse to want progress. They refuse to discuss it as something worth working toward.

It is a very odd mindset and one that really only lives among Miami fans. Everyone else moves forward and grows.
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Put your money where your mouth is. If you're not doing that, then STFU. We had no choice. As much you guys wanna blame the administration, they had no choice as well. The politicians of this city were determined to get their pockets lined real good, and they saw the opportunity to do so. But the majority of you ******* clowns would rather not show up to games, because you think that by not supporting the the team by showing up to SLS, that somehow that's going to get us a new stadium. Yes, the first thing the administration is gonna think of when they see 16k in the stands, is that we need to sink $300million+ into a new stadium. You guys must be great businessmen. Show up, and not just for one game a year, start dropping some money, or STFU.
 
SevenNSeven said:
Chicken_N_Roffles said:
Scanedalous said:
The sentiment among Miami fans on this forum seems to be that Miami is just fine in this area and despite the fact that all of college football is moving in the opposite direction our UofM is making the right decision by continuing to put nothing into its football program and continuing to have no home for its football team.

These fans and supporters are the very reason why we find ourselves so far behind the college football world. They don't want greatness and improvment for our program and student athletes. The delusionally feel that UofM is above it all. Reality doesn't seem to support them much and the 80's and 90's get further away by the year. They flat out refuse to budge and refuse to want progress. They refuse to discuss it as something worth working toward.

It is a very odd mindset and one that really only lives among Miami fans. Everyone else moves forward and grows.
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Put your money where your mouth is. If you're not doing that, then STFU. We had no choice. As much you guys wanna blame the administration, they had no choice as well. The politicians of this city were determined to get their pockets lined real good, and they saw the opportunity to do so. But the majority of you ******* clowns would rather not show up to games, because you think that by not supporting the the team by showing up to SLS, that somehow that's going to get us a new stadium. Yes, the first thing the administration is gonna think of when they see 16k in the stands, is that we need to sink $300million+ into a new stadium. You guys must be great businessmen. Show up, and not just for one game a year, start dropping some money, or STFU.
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I donate to the Hurricane Club every year, although, since I live out of town, I didn't retain my season tickets after the first year of playing at Sun Life. Why? Well, I simply don't enjoy home games as much as I used to because of the venue. I now attend more away games. Just a choice, although I know of others than made similar choices.


Would I still have season tickets if I lived in So Fla still? Probably. Regardless, I was up front, and remain to be up front with the school, when it comes to donation time, my dislike for their choice (and it was, actually a choice, even if it were the easiest one) to play in Sun Life, and how I would be open to giving more, were they to leave it. I find that the best way to have your voice heard is with the weight of money behind it.


While I may dislike it, we'll play at that stadium as long as the school feels that it is the best option financially; and also, as long as they continue not wanting to make the long term investment in the football program that a stadium owned, in total or in part, by the school would be.
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That's fine, but if you think that withholding money to voice your opinion is gonna do something....well I don't know what to tell you. People love to claim that we would get more people to show up if we had our own stadium. Why the **** would the administration believe that? We got the same type of crowds when we did have our own stadium(even if we didn't own it and it wasn't on campus) that we do now. Nobody gave a **** when we played McNeese St, Rutgers, and Temple before the same way they don't give a **** when we play Duke, UVa, and Wake Forest now.

What makes anybody think that the admin is gonna look out the window, see maybe 20k sitting in the stands, and think it's gonna be a good investment to build our own stadium? You'd be a ******* idiot to think it was in your best interest to build a new stadium for garbage like that. There's no money to be made. And it's all about the money. So either show up more consistently and let them know that it might actually be worth it, or suck it up and quit talking about this ****, because it's not gonna happen.
 
Sorry, but no, it's not gonna happen. Less people showing up might help to get the coach fired. But there is no way in **** anyone can believe that it's gonna convince them sink hundreds of millions of dollars into a new stadium. Not if it's gonna take a lifetime to recover that money. It doesn't work like that. And like I said, history has proven that it won't matter where we play, people aren't gonna show up unless it's a big game.

Deciding to fire a coach who is owed a couple of million is a helluva lot different than building a stadium that cost hundreds of millions. Making stupid business decisions like that is what leaves you broke and out living on the streets. This school doesn't have taxpayers covering their *** the way a big state school does.
 
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