Capacity at Sun Life Stadium to be reduced to 55,000 for '16

[brcane1]

Miami to hang banners over upper deck end zone seats in 2016, reduce capacity down to 55,000 seats.

 

[pumbaa]

The U is backwards

 

[duke4heisman]

That will be done by next season.....Dolphins will be 65,000

 

[OrangetieFatface]

That's some bull****! There's only going to be 6,000 tix left after season tickets are sold?!?!

Just kidding, it'll still be empty.

Thanks Alf.

 

[Klamalama]

That will leave only 45,000 empty seats. These will "mathemagically" turn to 10k empties.

 

[fivecent]

I like.

 

[Notsince1985]

It'll probably be used against us in recruiting, but at this point, we deserve it.

 

[fivecent]

They will try, but the actual gameday atmosphere is what matters most. This should help the atmosphere a lot.

 

[Supercane85]

Wow...what took them so long to do this. We have been asking for banners for ages it seems

 

[dfreshhookup]

It'll probably be used against us in recruiting, but at this point, we deserve it.

Maybe the distance from campus, but tarp or not it's pretty tough to convince a kid that a stadium that's good enough for a Super Bowl, National Title Game and an NFL team isn't good enough for him.

Right now we play in the 21st biggest stadium in the NCAA despite having 321 schools have a larger enrollment. This will take us down to 52nd largest, and it's definitely an improvement.

 

[Vanquish9]

It'll probably be used against us in recruiting, but at this point, we deserve it.

playing in front of 40,000 empty seats is better than playing in front of 60,000 empty seats

 

[dallascane]

It'll probably be used against us in recruiting, but at this point, we deserve it.

playing in front of 40,000 empty seats is better than playing in front of 60,000 empty seats

There's still 60,000 empty seats whether you tarp them or not.

 

[terra99pin]

The completed version actually looks pretty good.

Getting rid of the orange seats is a big plus too

 

[Gru]

even the school itself is buying banners at this point.

/hurts crootin bro

 

[Dingaan1828]

I heard from an unreliable source that UM is planning on flying tarp planes in front of the fans banner planes so that nobody will see the banners. There could be some truth to this as UM has plenty of experience with tarps.

 

[valid]

the real difference maker, is the canopy which is designed to trap noise in and actually make opponents get rattled for once. We finally gonna have a true home field advantage for once.

 

[D7.]

It'll probably be used against us in recruiting, but at this point, we deserve it.

I laughed...then cried

 

[SFbayCane]

This will help the average games and hurt the big games.

 

[Canes2082]

This will help the average games and hurt the big games.

My understanding is they will remove the banner for bigger games to increase attendance

 

[SFbayCane]

This will help the average games and hurt the big games.

My understanding is they will remove the banner for bigger games to increase attendance

They should remove the coach if they really want to increase attendance.