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WhatTheHell

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We are being slaughtered by the media and every other fanbase right now for our horrible gameday atmosphere, terrible facilities, lack of an on-campus stadium, and administration's indifference toward winning. Now, anyone that lives down here knows wins = attendance. That is true in any SoFla sport. It's a front-running town full of transplants and UM's alumni base is small and spread out. The facilities issue I believe is somewhat overblown. But the one thing I tend to agree with is the stadium problem.

It seems like every single D1 program has, or is in the process of getting, an on-campus stadium. The atmosphere at these stadiums is part of what makes the college gameday experience great. Ours, by comparison, is a certified nightmare. I think Sun Life stadium is a problem based on its size and location. I've had the displeasure of attending a lot of UF games when I was at school up there and son of a bltch if it wasn't amazing. It made me sad coming back down here and realizing we play in a library in the middle of nowhere. When you think about it, what about Sun Life should elicit excitement on gameday? The quaint drive through a trailer park? When I was driving into the Nebraska game we saw a dude on the sidewalk doing martial arts. An authentic, barefoot crackhead in sweatpants engaging in a karate fight against an invisible opponent. But if that didn't get me hyped the stunning view of the Sonic dumpster would. Or maybe I could partake in the time-honored tradition of tailgating in front of a Wal-Mart.

We have to find a way to build a 40k-45k stadium close to campus that would actually give us some semblance of a homefield advantage and a college gameday environment. This school really needs to ask themselves whether or not they're serious about fielding a competitive division 1 football program, and if they are, start acting like it. Put that money up.
 
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WhatTheHell said:
We are being slaughtered by the media and every other fanbase right now for our horrible gameday atmosphere, terrible facilities, lack of an on-campus stadium, and administration's indifference toward winning. Now, anyone that lives down here knows wins = attendance. That is true in any SoFla sport. It's a front-running town full of transplants and UM's alumni base is small and spread out. The facilities issue I believe is somewhat overblown. But the one thing I tend to agree with is the stadium problem.

It seems like every single D1 program has, or is in the process of getting, an on-campus stadium. The atmosphere at these stadiums is part of what makes the college gameday experience great. Ours, by comparison, is a certified nightmare. I think Sun Life stadium is a problem based on its size and location. I've had the displeasure of attending a lot of UF games when I was at school up there and son of a bltch if it wasn't amazing. It made me sad coming back down here and realizing we play in a library in the middle of nowhere. When you think about it, what about Sun Life should get elicit excitement on gameday? The quaint drive through a trailer park? When I was driving into the Nebraska game we saw a dude on the sidewalk doing martial arts. An authentic, barefoot crackhead in sweatpants engaging in a karate fight against an invisible opponent. But if that didn't get me hyped the stunning view of the Sonic dumpster would. Or maybe I could partake in the time-honored tradition of tailgating in front of a Wal-Mart.

We have to find a way to build a 40k-45k stadium close to campus that would actually give us some semblance of a homefield advantage and a college gameday environment. This school really needs to ask themselves whether or not they're serious about fielding a competitive division 1 football program, and if they are, start acting like it. Put that money up.
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From your keyboard to God's ears.
 
I agree with you 100% but...

A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium. They tell us we are living in the 80s when 28 canes (the most out of any school) have been drafted in the first round since 2000. We have 9 rookies on NFL rosters. They would trash us for some reason no matter what.


One of the funniest narratives I've seen is we have unrealistic expectations because of our previous success. Lane kiffin (who had harsher sanctions than golden) was fired at the beginning of year 4 w/ a similiar winning percentage as golden. No one used the narrative of "USC fans are too demanding & kiffin didn't get enough time." Gene chizik was fired in year 4 only two years removed from a national title. That was Auburn's first title in over 50 years (those bull**** "titles" that they claim doesn't mean anything. Auburn is the only school dumb enough to claim a national championship in a year they were banned, before the season started,from postseason play) and their first undefeated season in ten years. No way in **** would either have those guys gotten fired at that time if they coached at Miami. We demand championships but Golden was not even winning the Coastal.
 
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Kyle Liburd said:
A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium
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Or they see a ridiculously empty SLS.
 
Hurracanes said:
Kyle Liburd said:
A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium
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Or they see a ridiculously empty SLS.
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Kyle Liburd said:
I agree with you 100% but... A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium. They would trash us for some reason no matter what. They tell us we are living in the 80s when 28 canes (the most out of any school) have been drafted in the first round since 2000.
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This. Watching ESPN coverage on the search is like watching FOX news. It's obvious there is an agenda and they rinse and repeat the same buzz words regardless of whether there is any semblance of fact to them. Pretty gross
 
Look what Baylor did for their school. Baylor is roughly the same sized school (16000 enrollment), small, private. They opened up a new 45,000 seat stadium that expands to 55,000 if they need it. I think it cost $260 mm? Surely something like that is possible for us? Theirs is 860,000 sq feet built on the River front.
 
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jmccomber5 said:
Look what Baylor did for their school. Baylor is roughly the same sized school (16000 enrollment), small, private. They opened up a new 45,000 seat stadium that expands to 55,000 if they need it. I think it cost $230 mm? Surely something like that is possible for us
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construction costs in waco are way lower than miami. that kind of project would be $350 million+ easily for us.
 
db305 said:
jmccomber5 said:
Look what Baylor did for their school. Baylor is roughly the same sized school (16000 enrollment), small, private. They opened up a new 45,000 seat stadium that expands to 55,000 if they need it. I think it cost $230 mm? Surely something like that is possible for us
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construction costs in waco are way lower than miami. that kind of project would be $350 million+ easily for us.
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We need to stop making excuses. Get the deal done with Beckham or find an alternative. They should be embarrassed to get slaughtered and laughed at like that. This is more important than the indoor practice. Get a 45k stadium sell that bich out and make hella noise and ****. Make it intimidating and loud. We need to get out of that Sun Life deal Asap.
 
Kyle Liburd said:
I agree with you 100% but...

A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium. They tell us we are living in the 80s when 28 canes (the most out of any school) have been drafted in the first round since 2000. We have 9 rookies on NFL rosters. They would trash us for some reason no matter what.
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Dan Hawkins at least gave us some love on the subject of the upgraded facilities.
 
As far as an on campus stadium goes, that's not going to happen. First of all, they wouldn't be able to sell alcohol on campus and I know that's a tragedy.

We need to hope for something in proximity that isn't on the Broward Country border in the middle of purgatory with nothing even remotely resembling a Miami night atmosphere. If memory serves, the Orange Bowl wasn't on campus. I like the Tropical Park suggestion or closer. A metro rail stop distance would be helpful. Just putting the stadium halfway closer would be helpful. Does anybody else have a geographical suggestion that's within a 15 minute drive where a 45,000 capacity stadium could be built that isn't Tropical Park?
 
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TedHendricksOffspring said:
As far as an on campus stadium goes, that's not going to happen. First of all, they wouldn't be able to sell alcohol on campus and I know that's a tragedy.

We need to hope for something in proximity that isn't on the Broward Country border in the middle of purgatory with nothing even remotely resembling a Miami night atmosphere. If memory serves, the Orange Bowl wasn't on campus. I like the Tropical Park suggestion or closer. A metro rail stop distance would be helpful. Just putting the stadium halfway closer would be helpful. Does anybody else have a geographical suggestion that's within a 15 minute drive where a 45,000 capacity stadium could be built that isn't Tropical Park?
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there isn't one that wouldn't require miami-dade and the state to spend hundreds of millions on just infrastructure improvements for traffic. tropical park is the only piece of land that fits the bill for both proximity and minimal infrastructure expansion requirements. there is literally no other possible place unless we found compromising pictures of both the mayor and the governor.
 
I love how everyone forgets that UM is built right on the very edge of Coral Gables. Buy a metric load of land either across 57th, or even the shopping center in front of Tropical Park (Target/Best Buy) and stick a stadium there.
 
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Kyle Liburd said:
I agree with you 100% but...

A good portion national media does not care about facts. We upgraded our facilities from awful to respectable and none of them have cited it. They just go off word of mouth and pass along their agenda/preconceived perception of what our program is. We have dudes trying to say UCF is a better job because they have an IPF and on campus stadium. They tell us we are living in the 80s when 28 canes (the most out of any school) have been drafted in the first round since 2000. We have 9 rookies on NFL rosters. They would trash us for some reason no matter what.
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AMEN!!
I hate when they say we are living in the 80's.
Our last championship was 2001 and they just ignore it.
 
db305 said:
TedHendricksOffspring said:
As far as an on campus stadium goes, that's not going to happen. First of all, they wouldn't be able to sell alcohol on campus and I know that's a tragedy.

We need to hope for something in proximity that isn't on the Broward Country border in the middle of purgatory with nothing even remotely resembling a Miami night atmosphere. If memory serves, the Orange Bowl wasn't on campus. I like the Tropical Park suggestion or closer. A metro rail stop distance would be helpful. Just putting the stadium halfway closer would be helpful. Does anybody else have a geographical suggestion that's within a 15 minute drive where a 45,000 capacity stadium could be built that isn't Tropical Park?
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there isn't one that wouldn't require miami-dade and the state to spend hundreds of millions on just infrastructure improvements for traffic. tropical park is the only piece of land that fits the bill for both proximity and minimal infrastructure expansion requirements. there is literally no other possible place unless we found compromising pictures of both the mayor and the governor.
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Halfway there.
 
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