How exactly did we get sucked into this?

[The Franchise]

Used to say "anybody, anywhere" but I guess the powerhouse at Boone has Miami fans shook.

The "anybody anywhere" thing referred to taking on big-time programs anywhere, not playing a bullshyt FCS team in a HS stadium. But carry on.

You seen their fans talking? They think they're the next big thing. Talking trash like they're on our level. Beating them is one thing plenty of power 5 teams have done so. But beating them in their Super Bowl is the best way to bring them down to size. It's gonna be the nice to see the look on their face when they remember who they are.

I don't care about bringing 49 Mountain Dew drinkers back down to earth.

 

[The Franchise]

Some better looks of the stadium:

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Why can't we have that on Campus. Just call it a new practice field to avoid CG bs and do it. Got to be able to make collapsible bleachers that big. No walls. Lights on poles that fold up. Set it up and take it down. ***** the parking and the traffic -- that stuff works itself out. Just do not mention the word stadium.

Yeah. That's exactly the move we need to make. We need to go from the state of the art of all facilities to a 20k seat HS stadium just so we can say we play on campus where 3K students live.

 

[The Franchise]

Looks like a very loud venue with all those noise trapping walls and overhangs.

What da *** do they do there if a light drizzle falls? This has to be a fake photo.

Better hope Billy Bob Corben doesn't get drizzled on. He'll be **** on them on Twitter if he does.

 

[Tad Footeball]

Long answer?


Starting about a decade ago, the going rate for having non-power 5 FBS teams come and play at your place was driven upwards (+$1 million) by power-5 schools flush with cash. Large schools with big, on campus stadiums can pay teams like UMass (Florida), Western Kentucky (Alabama), and Arkansas State (Auburn) to come to their places on single game deals and still make a large profit.


By not owning their own stadium, and keeping all of the profits from a game, UM has effectively lost the ability to pay the going rate for these games. Hence them having to sign home and home deals with teams like FAU, FIU, Toledo, and Arkansas State.


Short answer, because someone canceled on us late enough in the process that, lacking the ability to pay a FBS school to come play us at Hard Rock, playing a home and home with a team like App State was the only viable option.

Good info but "lacking the desire to" autocorrected to "lacking the ability to" in your explanation. I wonder if $1 million will look like a small price to pay if one of these road games ever comes back to bite us in the *** and not only screws up a season and a bowl payout but also is a big source of national embarrassment? Here's to hoping that never happens.

My understanding is that the ACC splits up bowl revenue equally to each program (after subtracting bowl related expenses for participating programs). Bottom line is that mediocre programs like Miami (FL), that hasn't been in a high payout bowl game for over a decade, freeloads bowl money from the successful ACC programs that play in big money bowl games. In other words, inviting Miami (FL) into the ACC didn't exactly work out as expected.

You're correct about the bowl payout distribution. It's (hopefully) a longshot but if one of these games ever kept us out of the Playoff it'd end up costing the conference as a whole upwards of $20 mil minimum. The payout per team even if you just play one Playoff game is currently $18 mil and will obviously only rise substantially. Like I said, probably a long shot scenario but strange that in a world of ultra-conservative moves that we or the ACC would risk it over a couple million dollars total over a couple of years.

 

[Tad Footeball]

Looks like a very loud venue with all those noise trapping walls and overhangs.

What da *** do they do there if a light drizzle falls? This has to be a fake photo.

Better hope Billy Bob Corben doesn't get drizzled on. He'll be **** on them on Twitter if he does.

Hahahaha. No worries. I'm sure he'll be attending an always indoor Star Wars convention somewhere.

 

[blackvern]

Playing at a high school is more prestigious:

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Blame West Virginia they canceled our home and home...nobody else wanted to play a home and home if i remember correctly...They all would take us but wouldnt play at our house

 

[Tad Footeball]

Playing at a high school is more prestigious:

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Blame West Virginia they canceled our home and home...nobody else wanted to play a home and home if i remember correctly...They all would take us but wouldnt play at our house

USF or UCF would have said no? Golden wasn't corching here when this was scheduled? Why didn't he ask his beloved alma mater?

 

[Gatorhater]

Some better looks of the stadium:

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Why can't we have that on Campus. Just call it a new practice field to avoid CG bs and do it. Got to be able to make collapsible bleachers that big. No walls. Lights on poles that fold up. Set it up and take it down. ***** the parking and the traffic -- that stuff works itself out. Just do not mention the word stadium.

Yeah. That's exactly the move we need to make. We need to go from the state of the art of all facilities to a 20k seat HS stadium just so we can say we play on campus where 3K students live.

I am glad we have finally found something to agree on. After arguing before the USSC, doing M&A on The Street, and owning my own Gulfstream way before the days of easy money, finally Chise agrees with me. Now I am complete!

 

[The Franchise]

Some better looks of the stadium:

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Why can't we have that on Campus. Just call it a new practice field to avoid CG bs and do it. Got to be able to make collapsible bleachers that big. No walls. Lights on poles that fold up. Set it up and take it down. ***** the parking and the traffic -- that stuff works itself out. Just do not mention the word stadium.

Yeah. That's exactly the move we need to make. We need to go from the state of the art of all facilities to a 20k seat HS stadium just so we can say we play on campus where 3K students live.

I am glad we have finally found something to agree on. After arguing before the USSC, doing M&A on The Street, and owning my own Gulfstream way before the days of easy money, finally Chise agrees with me. Now I am complete!

Very impressive resume'. I really admire you.

 

[CaneStuck@USF]

I'm really concerned about how far of a walk it is from the locker room to the field. Does anyone have the measurements? I don't want our boys gassed before kickoff. At least its a day game so we don't have to worry about lights and what not.

 

[MovingZen]

**** this game. Do like in that Troy movie, 1 vs 1, Shaq vs whatever ****** they have running the ball and we leave after a 7 second planting into the ground.

 

[sabrose]

I hope its not as tough a walk as Duke- now that was a tough one.

 

[F-MarioCristobal]

Didn't read all of the responses to see if it was actually answered but the reason we are playing here is because we had Indiana scheduled for a home and home and the Big10 moved to a 9 game conference schedule and Indiana told us they weren't going to drop us, they were going to drop someone else.

When the Big10 announced their schedule, we couldn't fit in because we already had Notre Dame penciled in and the ACC overlapped conference games. We had to move on and find another, they didn't want to throw in another FCS team, wanted a respectable opponent and App State was about the only one that fit that description. App State already had 6 road games and wouldn't agree to play away. In that process of negotiating with App State all the other FBS schools filled their schedules and we had no choice unless we wanted to add another FCS opponent.

(My uncle is a golden cane and called the athletic dept raising **** about the game and this is the answer he received and passed to me a while back)

 

[SmokeyRone]

Incompetent scheduling, but it ended up working out for us.

ASU is considered a tough team now. Winning this road game nicely will help.

Folden would have done a Cincinnati.....

ASU probably better than Duke, UVA and GT, and might beat VT, UNC or Pitt

 

[canesproponent]

For the record - GatorHater knows as much about M&A as my cat. Not sure about the Gulfstream but this fellow could not even calculate a transaction multiple, let alone price an option.

 

[supacane]

Beat them 40-0 And send the area in recession followed by a depression. I see nothing to fear playing these clowns in an intramural parking lot. I hope it's illegal to honk their horns to make it loud

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[blackvern]

Playing at a high school is more prestigious:

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Blame West Virginia they canceled our home and home...nobody else wanted to play a home and home if i remember correctly...They all would take us but wouldnt play at our house

USF or UCF would have said no? Golden wasn't corching here when this was scheduled? Why didn't he ask his beloved alma mater?

There was a thread about it.... if I remember correctly porsters claimed nobody wanted to do a home and home with us on such short notice

 

[Dghustla]

Anyone, anytime and anywhere.

What separates Miami from all of the "Elites" in CFB history is that we don't act like we are "too good" to play certain teams. I love that we are going on the road to give these ppl a chance to see the hurricane brand in person.

Also the cool thing about this mentality is that since the Canes are a national brand it allows fans in different area see their favorite team play in person.

 

[blackvern]

Didn't read all of the responses to see if it was actually answered but the reason we are playing here is because we had Indiana scheduled for a home and home and the Big10 moved to a 9 game conference schedule and Indiana told us they weren't going to drop us, they were going to drop someone else.

When the Big10 announced their schedule, we couldn't fit in because we already had Notre Dame penciled in and the ACC overlapped conference games. We had to move on and find another, they didn't want to throw in another FCS team, wanted a respectable opponent and App State was about the only one that fit that description. App State already had 6 road games and wouldn't agree to play away. In that process of negotiating with App State all the other FBS schools filled their schedules and we had no choice unless we wanted to add another FCS opponent.

(My uncle is a golden cane and called the athletic dept raising **** about the game and this is the answer he received and passed to me a while back)

Ok it was Indiana... Can we change the name of "golden" cane to platinum cane are something?

 

[the storm]

Do they have a locker room?

I'm really concerned about how far of a walk it is from the locker room to the field. Does anyone have the measurements? I don't want our boys gassed before kickoff. At least its a day game so we don't have to worry about lights and what not.