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Even though we can barely get 20000 fans into the sun life now, having a 20000 seat stadium seems ridiculous. Way to small....anything less than a 35000-40000 seat stadium is wrong.
 
Some valid points made in the comments section. The admin, boosters and university better step up or we will remain in mediocrity
 
I've always thought a stadium that mirrors the size of Autzen is perfect for Miami.
 
1) No way is 20,000 big enough. I think 40-45K would be a good size
2) I know it has been brought up before, but why oh WHY can't we build at tropical park??? It already has a highschool stadium. We could build ourselves a stadium and let them use it too!
3) This was made me all squishy inside when I saw it. Why wouldn't this work?? http://kawneer.aias.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3463.pdf
4) I know it's impossible, but how awesome would a waterfront stadium at the old miami marine stadium be? lol
 
****, how many games a year do we need a capacity of more than 40K? Once, twice? Those games could be played at NoLife anyway.


UM is lucky that No Life's terrible atmosphere and atrocious distance to the field artificially increases lower bowl demand (as well as upper-deck 50-yard-line) when it comes to season ticket sales, because the surplus of tickets for the majority of home games must cripple them otherwise.
 
SevenNSeven said:
****, how many games a year do we need a capacity of more than 40K? Once, twice? Those games could be played at NoLife anyway.


UM is lucky that No Life's terrible atmosphere and atrocious distance to the field artificially increases lower bowl demand (as well as upper-deck 50-yard-line) when it comes to season ticket sales, because the surplus of tickets for the majority of home games must cripple them otherwise.
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I personally think the location of the stadium is more important than the capacity, although No Life is really too big, and the 20k mentioned in that article is downright comical. Something between 50-60k seems about right to me. Big enough for the big games (without getting overrun by Turds and Holes), small enough not to look empty when we play Charleston Southern. The first thing they have to do is get the students to go to the games, and that requires something close to the campus. If the students won't go, it seems unlikely that anyone else will either.
 
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sebastian91 said:
SevenNSeven said:
****, how many games a year do we need a capacity of more than 40K? Once, twice? Those games could be played at NoLife anyway.


UM is lucky that No Life's terrible atmosphere and atrocious distance to the field artificially increases lower bowl demand (as well as upper-deck 50-yard-line) when it comes to season ticket sales, because the surplus of tickets for the majority of home games must cripple them otherwise.
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I personally think the location of the stadium is more important than the capacity, although No Life is really too big, and the 20k mentioned in that article is downright comical. Something between 50-60k seems about right to me. Big enough for the big games (without getting overrun by Turds and Holes), small enough not to look empty when we play Charleston Southern. The first thing they have to do is get the students to go to the games, and that requires something close to the campus. If the students won't go, it seems unlikely that anyone else will either.
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Good call. Students are part of the atmosphere. I've been on the road to plenty of 'big' stadiums where the students are really the primary noise makers. I actually think our general fanbase gets off their asses and makes noise (you know, when they actually attend games) pretty well compared to others, but we lack the 15,000K students going nuts that other schools have, especially since the move to No Life.


In mind the University has always owed its students, not to mention the football team that made its logo famous, a better solution than just playing at No Life.
 
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I dont see us ever moving from sun life. We have a long term lease agreement, and Ross is spending hundreds of millions of his own money to upgrade the stadium. He is not going to give up our rental income.
 
SpikeUM said:
I dont see us ever moving from sun life. We have a long term lease agreement, and Ross is spending hundreds of millions of his own money to upgrade the stadium. He is not going to give up our rental income.
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Bingo. We will be there for a while. Win games and it will be less empty. Have another decade of fail and we all know the results.
 
I agree that a roughly 45k capacity is perfect. And to those of you who say we need more for FSU game, **** that. Give them their visitor allotment and sell the rest to our fans. Own home field. Why do we need almost half our stadium to be FSU fans? Nothing is wrong with being sold out all the time and having a few hot ticket games a year.
 
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We need to have something the size of Duke's stadium. I went last yr and while it was small they were able to pack it and it was loud!
 
We the Boss said:
SpikeUM said:
I dont see us ever moving from sun life. We have a long term lease agreement, and Ross is spending hundreds of millions of his own money to upgrade the stadium. He is not going to give up our rental income.
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Bingo. We will be there for a while. Win games and it will be less empty. Have another decade of fail and we all know the results.
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this is truth

if canes were number 1 and undefeated the stadium wouldn't be empty

winning solves all problems
 
Even if you paid market value for all of the properties that it would take to accommodate the foot print of a stadium - you're looking at roughly 15 Million to purchase enough land adjacent to Marlins park.

Isn't their any desire to head back to Little Havana? $20 no blockie? Fix the mistake.......
 
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