Football facility is official

[JL 2014]

$100m is insane. 5 years ago, we were so broke that Mark Richt had to donate 1 million of his own money to get the IPF. This program will be completely different if, god forbid, Ruiz stops bankrolling everything.

 

[Geddy Lee]

Here for the usual bull**** from the negative twatwaffles on here. Do yourselves a favor and take this year off from being on this board. Bunch of ****knocking goose****ers.

 

[Canes2082]

Christ some of you are miserable....

Getting a massive football only facility so we can finally compete even more with other schools and all you can say is Gattis this and that...

Gattis lives rent free in all of your heads

 

[Rickd]

Most of whom have no connection other than watching games on Saturdays.

Reality is that most fan bases are very heavily weighted to non-alums. Look at ND, Bama. Especially true in the case of a small private university. It you were relying on alums to fill the stadium there wouldn't be 25,000 at Hard Rock.

 

[Rickd]

Phenomenal facility that should really blow away recruits and families on visits ... and more importantly with the medical eval facilities + food and nutrition ... really provide some amazing services for the players. Tremendous addition to UM. Kudos to the administration for stepping up to the plate.

 

[Dream School]

Reality is that most fan bases are very heavily weighted to non-alums. Look at ND, Bama. Especially true in the case of a small private university. It you were relying on alums to fill the stadium there wouldn't be 25,000 at Hard Rock.

Bama is way different, they have over 200,000 living alumni. Any large state school can fill a stadium with alumni easily.

 

[IndayArtHauz]

Foundational improvement that will help the program for decades to come. Huge kudos to everyone who made this possible. Hope to see it in person some day.

 

[CaneintheWilderness]

$100m is insane. 5 years ago, we were so broke that Mark Richt had to donate 1 million of his own money to get the IPF. This program will be completely different if, god forbid, Ruiz stops bankrolling everything.

This is a broader point than should be addressed on this thread (which is great news, the facility looks amazing), but I do wonder about it. My sense of things was this: while Ruiz has for whatever reason made himself the very public face/funder/lightening rod for Miami's new NIL regime and increased financial commitment to the football program, the program's more traditional and less public donors have also stepped up considerably. Those other donors, combined with UM Health's infusion of revenue, represent the lion's share of the money for all of this expansion. Thus, Ruiz is very visible and certainly important, but he's not the end all be all of this new regime.

Maybe someone with knowledge behind the scenes can say whether this is a correct impression or whether Ruiz really is the key to the whole thing. If I was UM I'd certainly want to have a very diversified funding base. We saw how well having a single (albeit billionaire) benefactor worked out for FSU when that guy passed away.

 

[Rickd]

Bama is way different, they have over 200,000 living alumni. Any large state school can fill a stadium with alumni easily.

Having "living alumni" is one thing .... having alums that are actually living in travel distance to games is another.

 

[Pentagon Cane]

Reality is that most fan bases are very heavily weighted to non-alums. Look at ND, Bama. Especially true in the case of a small private university. It you were relying on alums to fill the stadium there wouldn't be 25,000 at Hard Rock.

Dude, most are not season ticket holders or even have stepped into that stadium. Or if they have only occasionally. They contribute nothing for the betterment of the university, but they do constantly rip it every chance they get.

This is an exciting day for the University of Miami and the athletic department, but they are too busy throwing shade.

 

[Mr. Dynasty1]

Beautiful

 

[margate]

Why is Paul Williams sitting in the lobby?

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looks like deshaun watson waiting to get jerked off at a rub an tug

 

[theribdoctor]

looks like deshaun watson waiting to get jerked off at a rub an tug

 

[CaneThang2020]

Mario and Rad aren't playing around. Cannot be stated enough how much of a power move this actually is.

 

[joseermonfils]

Love it!

 

[Home Slice]

Very impressive and needed

 

[Canesfan3234]

100 million dollar facility.

Most expensive in the state by far and one of the most expensive in the country but I'm sure the peanut gallery will be out in full force about something without the common sense of realizing that cost of construction in coral gables is 3x what it costs in random college town X.

 

[ben]

i haven't been a huge fan of the aesthetic of some of the newer buildings on campus, but this looks very sleek.

 

[dantheman349]

Foundational improvement that will help the program for decades to come. Huge kudos to everyone who made this possible. Hope to see it in person some day.

Thank you my 10 dollars was a huge help!

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Tried to tell people that this was, essentially, pre-approved by Coral Gables.