This is another thing that has been discussed endlessly. Part of the issue many have with Marlins Park is that it was designed and engineered specifically for baseball, therefore if the Marlins decided to leave South Florida, reconfiguring the stadium for something like football or soccer is...
You guys remember when our current starting QB, 4 star Jarren Williams from Georgia flipped his commitment to UM after attending a game at Hard Rock? He had offers from pretty much every SEC school plus Ohio State... I bet those school went out and immediately built on campus stadiums... 🤔...
Let me just go ahead and do this for those of you who think there's some large amount of green space to accommodate a football stadium. I guarantee you this will be the first time most of you have looked at it...
We get a piece of all that. Parking I believe is only the passes we sell, I think Ross gets most of the cash lots. Ross is still making about $5mm annually by our participation there. We'd be hard-pressed to find a better deal independently without assuming all the risk.
You're just not...
This has been discussed so many times over the years. They used to do precisely that, but due to reconfiguration/renovations and rising season ticket sales, it just isn't an option anymore, and honestly, it isn't needed. The atmosphere is great.
Because when over 50,000 seats are sold, it doesn't make any sense to cover them because there isn't enough to cover. The U has no control over who doesn't show-up. You can't cover sections where seats have been sold.
Truthfully, no, not in a way that would be up to snuff for a major college football programs home field. Part of the issue when it was built was that it was configured in such a way structurally that significantly limits its ability to be anything other than a baseball stadium.