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TheOriginalCane said:
Currently, Inter Miami plays in Lauderdale. The Mas Brothers are planning to build a soccer stadium at the site of the public Melreese golf course, across LeJeune from MIA. I posted screenshots and site plans on another thread, and you can also find the pix and plans on the Inter Miami website.
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I don’t keep up with soccer, especially MLS
 
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akad1984 said:
Yeah, we should cater to those 60% who have left the stadium empty for the past 10 years besides one game. Even better idea. Bottom line is this: if you’ve been to Hard Rock in the past two years, you’ll know our stadium situation is broken. It needs to be repaired one way or the other. Bring the Canes back home.
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I've been a season ticket holder for 25 years, attend every game, and I've never been happier with the stadium situation.

You're bat-**** crazy making statements like "if you’ve been to Hard Rock in the past two years, you’ll know our stadium situation is broken" but then again you probably have 2 upper deck visitor side seats in the sun.
 
ssvir said:
LOL. Is this b/c of your hissy-fit over your parking pass being moved to a different location b/c of stadium construction?

It literally poured 90% of the last game and the majority of fans didn't get wet whatsoever b/c of the ridiculously awesome roof at the multi-billion stadium that is one of only about 10 approved locations to host a Super Bowl but the idiots in here want to move to a 45k erector set stadium like FAU or UCF in the heart of Miami-Dade suburbs creating traffic ****. Just wow.
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Don’t worry, it’s never happening. It makes makes zero sense and is financially not feasible.
 
Any way, Marcus - dude sucks! But he’ll deliver Mario
 
PIPO said:
Tropical park location is worse because at least at Merril Reese golf course location, you have 836 connection with Death 95 & 826 (Palmetto), turnpike further west and the airport express way. All very congested highways/roads on any day. It’s a congestion issue that is volume related.

Tropical Park for me personally is an easier drive (15 minutes) vs Hard Rock but I can get to Hard Rock in 30-40 minutes with few if any traffic issues. Just me personally.
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There are reasons I was asking the question. I worked for 6 years in Daytona for ISC/NASCAR, and the track was near I-95 and I-4, with the road in front of the track being 8 lanes wide (comparable to NW 199th). The police presence definitely helped traffic flow.

Obviously, Miami is a bigger city with a lot of non-event traffic, but there's also a larger police force. Just curiosity, more than anything. Currently, a lot of cops work on UM game days, and it probably doesn't matter (to them) whether they are directing traffic at Hard Rock or Tropical. Just seems to me like they could perform the same services if that would help to get people in/out of Tropical for game days.

Years ago, I also wrote-up an idea for running shuttles from the UM campus to Tropical, that would be one way to get the UM community over to the games without adding to the traffic. Would definitely be a shorter ride than the current busing (or mass transit if they ever finish the plan to extend the Metro to Hard Rock).
 
ssvir said:
I've been a season ticket holder for 25 years, attend every game, and I've never been happier with the stadium situation.

You're bat-**** crazy making statements like "if you’ve been to Hard Rock in the past two years, you’ll know our stadium situation is broken" but then again you probably have 2 upper deck visitor side seats in the sun.
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Got me there bro, that really stung. Now back to the topic at hand; If you’re going to sit here and pretend that our stadium situation and sea of empty seats on a weekly basis isn’t a national laughingstock - there’s no conversation to be had. Perception is reality - and the national perception is that we have an empty rent-a-stadium, regardless if you managed to buy decent club seats that’s closer to where you live.
 
SFbayCane said:
Put me in the camp that is against a stadium deal. If they build a UM specific stadium it will likely be in the 45K capacity range. That would be a tragedy for UM football.

Hard Rock is a suitable place to play IF the team is winning.
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im divided. I agree but also disagree. It limits the capacity and potentially eliminates/alienates a portion of the fan base. Majority of canes fans are from the actual city not corlal gables. With that being said, even when miami was winning which i would say 2017. The notre dame game was one of the only games over 50k attendence. A college stadium, closer to campus with an actual college stadium feel would be a game changer. It's not like miami is getting 100k+ people at games every week. Could they? absolutely. But thats been years since anything like that. Hard rock can get loud and electric but go to a death valley, the big house, penn state, etc. Those college atmospheres blow hard rock out of the water and its not even close. Anybody can disagree but they're wrong. It's college footnball not the nfl. Does hardrock get loud, absolutely, is it a nice stadium.. absolutely. Does it look patheic during a 12pm game against most teams, yes. and for anyone who says recruits dont care harold perkins liked miami but said he wanted more of a college atmosphere at games.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
There are reasons I was asking the question. I worked for 6 years in Daytona for ISC/NASCAR, and the track was near I-95 and I-4, with the road in front of the track being 8 lanes wide (comparable to NW 199th). The police presence definitely helped traffic flow.

Obviously, Miami is a bigger city with a lot of non-event traffic, but there's also a larger police force. Just curiosity, more than anything. Currently, a lot of cops work on UM game days, and it probably doesn't matter (to them) whether they are directing traffic at Hard Rock or Tropical. Just seems to me like they could perform the same services if that would help to get people in/out of Tropical for game days.

Years ago, I also wrote-up an idea for running shuttles from the UM campus to Tropical, that would be one way to get the UM community over to the games without adding to the traffic. Would definitely be a shorter ride than the current busing (or mass transit if they ever finish the plan to extend the Metro to Hard Rock).
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But what about Santa’s Enchanted Forest during the holiday season at Tropical Park???
 
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akad1984 said:
Got me there bro, that really stung. Now back to the topic at hand; If you’re going to sit here and pretend that our stadium situation and sea of empty seats on a weekly basis isn’t a national laughingstock - there’s no conversation to be had. Perception is reality - and the national perception is that we have an empty rent-a-stadium, regardless if you managed to buy decent club seats that’s closer to where you live.
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It’s not the stadium, it’s the fans….
 
PIPO said:
I can agree that the tennis courts & football facility have taken a ton of the parking space.

The race track not so much. It’s just a road. Not talking about a NASCAR track.
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Trust me, I know the difference between a road course and a banked NASCAR track, having worked in Daytona for 6 years. I am fully aware of what can be done with a road course (i.e., parking on it for part of the year), but there are still issues (not going to bore everyone to death).

The fact remains, Hard Rock has been cutting up the parking lot for multiple events and buildings that were not contemplated when we signed our lease. Something to consider. I've had tickets since the 80s, I've tailgated since the 80s, and the atmosphere has definitely changed, and not for the better.
 
akad1984 said:
Got me there bro, that really stung. Now back to the topic at hand; If you’re going to sit here and pretend that our stadium situation and sea of empty seats on a weekly basis isn’t a national laughingstock - there’s no conversation to be had. Perception is reality - and the national perception is that we have an empty rent-a-stadium, regardless if you managed to buy decent club seats that’s closer to where you live.
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Cool. So you had no answer to your "HR stadium sucks so let's spend $1.5B to build a 45k seat erector set stadium in the middle of west Dade suburban ****" take other than "it looks bad on TV".

If the team is exciting and wins the stadium is the perfect size .... 64k and for ****tier games they can tarp the upper deck end zones like they used to do.
 
Angry Ibis said:
It’s not the stadium, it’s the fans….
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It’s the stadium. We managed to fill it once in the past 10 years and that took a top-5 matchup against a hated rival with one of the biggest programs in the country. It’s proximity to campus is the worst of all power 5 schools, it’s rented, and it’s capacity is much too large for our fan base. The atmosphere is pure garbage on Canes game days, but hey, “it can host a super bowl”.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Yeah, that's a load of crap.
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OK champ. I'm willing to bet at least 50% of season ticket holder are from Broward/Palm Beach and UM would lose a lot more than they would gain by moving a stadium into a small erector set stadium in no-man's land in Dade County.
 
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ssvir said:
OK champ. I'm willing to bet at least 50% of season ticket holder are from Broward/Palm Beach and UM would lose a lot more than they would gain by moving a stadium into a small erector set stadium in no-man's land in Dade County.
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Look, you've obviously become emboldened and convinced of your tuff-guy schtick due to all of your profane Twitter attacks on UM alums and Trustees.

I'm not even going to address the obvious flaws in your argument. You aren't worth the effort. You're going to empty your bowels on everyone regardless of logical discussion.
 
akad1984 said:
It’s the stadium. We managed to fill it once in the past 10 years and that took a top-5 matchup against a hated rival with one of the biggest programs in the country. It’s proximity to campus is the worst of all power 5 schools, it’s rented, and it’s capacity is much too large for our fan base. The atmosphere is pure garbage on Canes game days, but hey, “it can host a super bowl”.
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So your suggestion is build a "new" stadium for $500M plus another $1B in infrastructure costs that holds 45k and that will improve the attendance and atmosphere over a 64k seat centrally located stadium that is good enough for Super Bowls but not good enough for UM fans. Got it. Impeccable thought process.
 
Cane6 said:
But what about Santa’s Enchanted Forest during the holiday season at Tropical Park???
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I can't fix every problem! Actually, I'm sure they would figure something out. Hey, maybe HARD ROCK STADIUM will use part of its parking lot for the new Santa's Enchanted Forest...
 
The atmosphere at hard Rock in 2016 and 2017 was actually pretty good even not filled to capacity. Place was rocking not just for ND, but VT, GT , UVA etc. With the roof it doesn’t need to be full to get loud there.

I have no doubt the game experience will be a lot like that again if we make a coaching change and the product on the field starts to show promise again like it did those seasons.
 
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