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It's on campus, and fewer seats to fill and it's still a struggle. That's the point I'm making. Keep in mind, a lot of our students don't give a **** about football, they only give a **** about getting wasted at the tailgate.

A kid that is considering Miami knows the score. That kid knows that he's going to be playing off campus in a world class stadium, that is literally the next step to the NFL, that kid knows that he will not be a BMOC, because the kids on campus don't worship at the altar of football, because...

Traffic is beyond bad after basketball games. I remember 2012, and the parking snafus after big games, it was miserable and the Watsco Center holds 1/6th the amount of people a decent football stadium does.

It's obvious to anyone with any knowledge of anything that this guy is gassing up idiots. It's all a publicity stunt, it's all empty promises. Frankly, I find it a bit odd that Ruiz is so desperate to be liked, that he is willing to say anything, facts and logic be damned. I'm not shocked...

Reading through all of these comments, I can say one thing: Apparently our fanbase hasn't paid attention to the ultimate case study in "If you play on campus, the fans will show up", which is the Miami basketball program. Miami has played on campus for almost 20 years, and despite L having some...

Actually, unless it's changed in the last 5 years, there are still some select seminar classes on Saturdays. Not many, but some. It's not a full course load, but some departments fit in lab/lecture discussion groups on Saturdays...

Fundamental difference between Opa Locka residents and CG residents. One group has a ton of political influence due to them being WEALTHY, one does not. There's a reason why the Watsco Center only seats 8500, instead of the 10k the school wanted. There's a reason why for DECADES, you couldn't...

The era of teams playing in two facilities is over and for good reason. Fans won't stand for that crap anymore. Yep, I pay premium money for my season tickets because we play most games in a **** bandbox, but some douchebag gets in on the cheap for the good games, because those are played at...

Tropical Park is a nonstarter most likely. What's the point of playing 7 miles away from campus, where egress in and out will be even worse than the facility you play in now? The whole "We need our own stadium" nonsense is a red herring, thrown out by rival fans that don't know a **** thing.

You really think Miami fans, much less the people writing the checks want to sit in a POS stadium, built on the cheap, that is a glorified bandbox? Our fans whine now about having world class crap at Hard Rock. Yep, metal bleachers. Sounds like fun. Lack of club seating. Sigh me up. You...

Starting what conversation? It's literally some rich dude gassing up dumbasses. Ruiz knows full well that the odds of this getting anywhere off the ground is 1 in a million at best. Keep in mind, he isn't liquid, not at this point. We are talking about a multibillion dollar project, when you...

It is a garbage stadium, but I will say this: Their tailgating setup was legit. I remember when we played UCF in 2009 up there, and they had a "Field of Dreams" on campus, on a giant green field in front of their library. That was like shooting fish in a barrel, as a single 1st year grad...

Do you understand how small the WestLab school parcel is? Never mind the fact that you need to have other things there. You need locker rooms, you still need to have all the other auxiliary spaces there. You'd be butting up against US-1, and good luck with that.

It needs to be LIQUID funding, and that's the problem. When you are doing an IPO, you are always a **** market correction or a surplus of fear away from things going sideways. This isn't a guy like T. Boone, who had made so much money before, that he was sitting on a ton of liquid capital and...

Have you been to Alumni Stadium? It's utter trash. It's a miserable experience, a bandbox of a stadium that limits what that program can be. I'd be embarrassed if Miami built a stadium of that quality.

Yep, tailgate on campus and then take the metro to the stadium. Complete and utter nonsense.

Lots of billionaires out there have been exposed as scam artists. I don't think Ruiz is running game, but when a guy is desperately trying to buy his way in, and do big ticket items immediately, it does raise red flags. That said, I also think that this is playing to the crowd and setting...

Ruiz wants to do that, I'm down. He buys the Dolphins, clears out the other stupid crap from Hard Rock and turns it into a football playground for the Fins and Canes, and I'd be happy. I'm not even a Dolphins fan, but I'd love to see that. There's nothing and I mean NOTHING wrong with Hard...

The parcel West Lab sits on isn't nearly large enough to build anything resembling a decent stadium. I would know because I lived in a house right off Granada throughout Undergrad, Grad and Law School. We used to run routes in that giant field across from West Lab. Never mind the fact that...

1.4 miles.