Name them?
Also where do you think the majority of Season ticket holders live?
1. Douglas Road, between NW 7th Street and NW 11th Street. It is a dirt mall currently, and I don't want to hear a **** word about "future development plans". If you want the site, pay for the site. The footprint is, literally, larger than what we had at the Orange Bowl. Very close to the Mas brothers' soccer project at Melreese, and the parking at the football stadium could be used by Inter Miami (with shuttles running along Douglas).
2. Due east of the Marlins' stadium. 8 square blocks of old replaceable buildings. Identical footprint to the Marlins' stadium. Raze those 8 blocks, build football, use the existing parking garages, all other parking could be "tailgate" type lots. Yes, you would need City of Miami to cooperate on eminent domain and/or bond issuance. You could work out a situation where the new stadium could be connected to the Med School, maybe use the site for overflow/employee parking, maybe use the luxury boxes for medical conference rooms, etc. You could also put all the "new" football offices (necessitated by hiring a ****-ton more support staff) in the new stadium.
3. Inter Miami stadium at Melreese - yes, I realize this would have MASSIVE parking issues to resolve, but it would be on an existing mass-transit line, so Palm Beach/Broward would have some transit options. I know, I know, the CURRENT plan for the stadium is 25K, but if you look at the artist renderings, it is just a "single bowl" structure. I'm no architect, but I've been in enough stadiums to know that if you added an upper deck, you could create a seating capacity that could approach 60,000. Now, parking...different story.
I know **** well where the majority of season ticket holders live. I am a season ticket holder. I live in Orlando.
Bottom line, all three of those sites are, essentially, where the Orange Bowl was. Right off the Dolphin (most games will be on Saturday, stop whining). An extra 15-20 minutes south for people coming from the north (drive time, who knows about parking options at Melreese), with potential access to rail transit. INFINITELY closer for UM students.
I know, I know, there will be a bunch of Miami-area experts who will chime in to tell us how none of those options work. Whatever. I started at UM in 1986, I have seen MASSIVE changes to Dade County. Entire areas bulldozed, new stuff built. Very little in Dade is permanent and untouchable. Two great options and one challenging option (Melreese).
The break in CFB has occured. No way P5 conferences survive this in their present form. Super La Liga is on the way.
