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How to Improve the Game Day Experience

You know you are a Happy Adjuster when this stadium is labeled a Top 5 NFL venue.

It leads the league in hundreds of millions rationalized on contrived patchwork. It leads the league in terms of home field decline compared to the stadium it replaced. It leads the league in irrelevant location.
 
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Sun Life is a terrible NFL stadium even with all the make up they slathered on her ugly face.
 
valid said:
build a stadium closer to campus....doesnt have to be coral gables. tropical park is ideal. construct a 50,000 stadium designed for optimum acoustics with the seats right on top of the field. i don't accept that the funds are unobtainable.
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The only good answer in this entire thread
 
Alot of good ideas on here...

Some of you guys are just going to depress yourself because if you think Stephen Ross is letting us out of that contract you are delusional. Arent we in it until some ungodly year? Like 2025 or something crazy? And you guys think he is just going to let us walk because a few fans on here dont like the gameday atmosphere? LOL. Yeah, keep complaining if it makes you feel better.

Fact of the matter is it CAN be a GREAT gameday atmosphere..if you dont know this then you dont go to games. PERIOD. That FSU atmosphere two years ago was UNBELIEVABLE. HS recruits on the sidelines pregame. Former players all over the place. Crowd was electric...one thing that was missing..a win...

And thats what it comes down to..how about we just start winning first? Man this is SOUTH FLORIDA! **** I drove by the BB&T Center and it was packed for a **** PANTHERS HOCKEY GAME! Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE WINNING!

Unless you are not a native of South Florida you will never understand that people down here want to go where its the "place to be". I will never forget being at the UF game 3 yrs ago and I was sitting in front of this couple and their son..And the dad told his son while pointing at Phillip Dorsett while he was warming up.."You see son, take a picture of him, that is Tony Dorsetts son. He was a legend!"...LMAO. Dude it was the UF game and this lame took his son and "Miami Beach model" looking wife to the UM game because it was the place to be that day!!

Win and they will come. We can discuss all this other stuff later. Although I agree that we have to get back to letting former players on the sidelines. And celebrities. THIS IS MIAMI! And that is what made us special back in the day. We need to get back to what made Miami..Miami..
 
valid said:
build a stadium closer to campus....doesnt have to be coral gables. tropical park is ideal. construct a 50,000 stadium designed for optimum acoustics with the seats right on top of the field. i don't accept that the funds are unobtainable.
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And can you tell us the reason for this frenzy to be close to campus ....in an inaccessible location? For the 2K to 3K students who might bother to get their lazy butts to the free seats on a Saturday .... a 50K stadium that will cost about $200million to build???

How many of them actually bother to turn up currently at the BUC now with a top 10 Basketball team which is right there on campus ??

Some of you live in fantasy land!!
 
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The Canope will help make those early games easier to sit through. Winning is the big thing!
 
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Jedi Master Cane said:
The only way to improve the gameday experience is to move the **** out of that abomination also known as Dolphin Stadium.
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With what feasible option?

What other facility currently, or yet to be built (besides Beckham's bowl), is an upgrade over Joe Robbie..err...Sun Life...from cost, infrastructure, and accessibility perspectives?

UM plays in a facility undergoing a $300m upgrade. $300m. That is a massive cost.
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Tropical park has been, and will continue to be a good viable option...assuming anyone in the county actually gives a **** about the program and WANTS to make it happen.

Something needs to happen. Dolphin stadium is easily one of the worst gameday experiences in the country. Idiots will come on this board and say "winning will fix that"...well bull****. I've been in that stadium for big games we've actually WON (the game against the Gators for example) and the crowd was packed and the atmosphere still sucks and feels nothing like a college game.

There is no fixing that stadium. All the upgrades in the world won't change the fact it has zero atmosphere and isn't suited to college athletics.

We need to move. Period and end of story. At this point I'd rather share a stadium with ******* FIU over continuing to play in that piece of garbage which is BARELY in Dade county, and BARELY even in Miami.
 
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UM should work hard at scheduling high profile OOC opponents HERE, not in Chicago. I know it's easier said than done, but that should be a high priority item, IMO.
 
dadecounty25 said:
I think transportation is a big problem in miami. Might be the crappiest out of all major cities in the US
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It's called a car. We have been using them for years. We have way to many people here already. Transportation would only worsen the problem.
 
Winning. You want to draw more fans? Win. Nobody cares about the other crap. Case in point: The Orange Bowl. It was a dump, it had no amenities, and zero creature comforts. When the 'Canes were winning, there'd be 60,000 people there. When they started to fall apart under Coker and later, Shannon, there would be 30,000 people there. It's not like the atmosphere left the Orange Bowl, the winning did. If they win and win big, there will be 60,000 people at Sun Life. It's got nothing to do with location. Building a stadium in Tropical Park is a horrible idea. 836 and 826 are already parking lots without 60,000 extra people driving on them. It reminds me of when the Marlins were pushing for a stadium. "Oh, Sun Life is too big, it's not a baseball stadium, it's too far". So they built a baseball stadium further south to be closer to all the "fans" in Miami and nobody ever goes to games there. The biggest problem with gameday atmosphere? ******, apathetic fans who would rather make up excuses for not showing up than actually go to a game.
 
Parking for UM games should be half of what it is for Dolphin games. Fans should be given admission at half price and 50% off all concessions if the enter the stadium with a dummy/mannequin/fan cut outs, to place in adjacent empty seats so that attendance appears double of what it actually is.
 
dadecounty25 said:
Gatorhater said:
dadecounty25 said:
I think transportation is a big problem in miami. Might be the crappiest out of all major cities in the US
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It's called a car. We have been using them for years. We have way to many people here already. Transportation would only worsen the problem.
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Transportation meaning trains, buses etc. New York seems to be doing fine with that.
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That is my point. Don't want to be like New York. Plus, look at the size issues. Lot more distance down here than NYC. They go up down. We go north, south and west. You can live in NYC forever and never drive a car. Down here, you can't get to supermarket without one. This is Miami. Maybe if you live on South Beach, you an make it without a car but no stadium there.
 
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Sun Life is one of the worst pro sporting venues in the world.

Painting the seats the Jaguars' color didn't help.

- stop playing EDM crap. Return to the early 2000's stadium playlist of Trick Daddy and assorted thugs.
- Give out free tickets in the hood. In the WEZ, we used to see at least 3-4 fights per game. Usually, some dudes who looked like they were from Overtown beating the crap out of some loud mouthed frat boy opposing fan.
- Ban #CanesHam from the games. They are not real Miami fans. They are imposters.


We're limited though. Dolphin stadiu is geared towards a cheese and wine crowd, while the Orange Bowl was geared towards degenerates of Miami.
 
DTP said:
Winning. You want to draw more fans? Win. Nobody cares about the other crap. Case in point: The Orange Bowl. It was a dump, it had no amenities, and zero creature comforts. When the 'Canes were winning, there'd be 60,000 people there. When they started to fall apart under Coker and later, Shannon, there would be 30,000 people there. It's not like the atmosphere left the Orange Bowl, the winning did. If they win and win big, there will be 60,000 people at Sun Life. It's got nothing to do with location. Building a stadium in Tropical Park is a horrible idea. 836 and 826 are already parking lots without 60,000 extra people driving on them. It reminds me of when the Marlins were pushing for a stadium. "Oh, Sun Life is too big, it's not a baseball stadium, it's too far". So they built a baseball stadium further south to be closer to all the "fans" in Miami and nobody ever goes to games there. The biggest problem with gameday atmosphere? ****ty, apathetic fans who would rather make up excuses for not showing up than actually go to a game.
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The gameday atmosphere at an Orange Bowl game with 30k was far, far better than a soldout Dolphins stadium game.
 
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Here is a simple low cost way to increase attendance and for the fans to be more into the game.....

LESS NOON KICKS!

Whats good for ESPN is horrid for schools with lagging ticket sales and even for people with tickets who opt out when hung over at 10am. The ACC should mandate that only 2 of 4 conference home games be nooners... Teams should have a min of 3 night games including OOC. Swofford caved on this (or never considered).
 
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