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  1. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Yep, should have bought the OB from City of Miami when they were bankrupt. Could have used the parking lots for satellite parking for the Med School. Tad Foote had 15 years to get things done (from the time the Dolphins moved out), but he did nothing.
  2. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    I always loved watching the Gaytor and SemenHole fans uttering ethnic slurs under their breath...allllll that racism would just get exposed once those soft pvssies were outside of their "college town" comfort zone, and they were baking on the hot streets of Miami.
  3. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Tri-Rail has a new "inter-modal" station at Miami International. People from Palm Beach/Broward could ride Tri-Rail and be within a mile or two of the stadium (the station is just to the north of Melreese). Or...think big...Miami and local investors arrange money and permits to buy Magic City...
  4. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    I used to take the Metro to nearly every UM basketball game... The land is there. The Metro stop is there. The roads are there. Buy some extra land and build a downtown satellite campus.
  5. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Settle down, my friend. It's better than NEVER talking about it. Highly unlikely to ever be on campus BUT never say never. I never thought we would tear down the Towers, but we are. I think that traffic/parking could be solved, but we would definitely have an issue with square footage. Over...
  6. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    100% truth. I'd also like to see a merger of City of Miami and Metro-Dade (or at least a chunk of Metro-Dade). Roll up some of the crappy little municipalities like "West Miami" as well. Dade needs to do what Broward did, everyone needs to join a city. No more county (from a services...
  7. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    It's a Catch-22. If you only cater to the "current season ticket-holders", then it is hard to ever energize the students. And if the students don't get interested in UM football/basketball/baseball while in school, then they will probably not be big fans as alums. I was a student, undergrad...
  8. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Actually, Lake Osceola is 8.5 acres. So double your estimate, but much smaller than 156 acres. Chartered a year before the 1926 hurricane that ushered the collapse of the Florida land boom, this campus began as a 160-acre donation of land by George Merrick, developer of Coral Gables. The...
  9. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    I would be happier at Joe Robbie IF: Metrorail and/or TriRail had stations there AND Dade/Broward widen roads, interchanges, etc. and streamline the traffic flow. It has gotten better (and lower stadium capacity helps too), but I've seen better traffic at Daytona International with double...
  10. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Again...HIGHLY unlikely. But, if you want an answer to the question: Where: 1. Fill in Lake Osceola, per the original plan 2. Intramural fields. Move IM fields to Granada 3. Serpentine lot. May not be possible any longer, without relocating a couple of buildings Parking/traffic: 1...
  11. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    In addition, "Lake" Osceola is not a lake, we originally just had a canal running through the campus, and UM dug out the dirt and sold it to one of the causeways over Biscayne Bay to pay for the Merrick and Memorial Buildings. The ON-CAMPUS FOOTBALL STADIUM was originally planned for the center...
  12. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    Part of the delay was because Ryder pulled out of their naming rights deal. The other part was a 10-year delay that Gables put on Miami to try to extort more money for fire/police protection (no joke). They refused to permit any building on the UM campus, which delayed the new Student Union...
  13. TheOriginalCane

    Spring Game Question

    People also forget two important developments over the last 2 decades. First, Coral Gables has allowed the building of a bunch of downtown high-rises, and now they have a net influx of people and traffic on a daily basis. So this is no longer "hey, we want a low-traffic, low-impact" kind of an...
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