Miami Hurricanes | Dining Hall and Training Table | Tour

[CaneFan79]

I will not miss that dining hall food. Wow they really are selling dreams with that video. The student athletes only get a separate, better meal when the training table is open, which is only for dinner. Those meals are legit. Breakfast and lunch are awful

Ate some of the dining room food at UM while my son studied there...If your complaining about it, you need to try a military chow hall/ships mess deck or a field kitchen meal or a T-rat or a boxed nasty or the penultimate, an MRE. Thats what a lot of vets have eaten ad nauseum ...But then again Frat Boys are supposed to eat better than vets, right?

He didn't mention frat boys or vets in his post so your last statement is unwarranted.

I am sure there are a lot worse eating situations than the one at the UM dining hall. Two of my main problems with the eating situation are as followed

1. UM's meal plans are more expensive than other schools with a larger student bodies but they give us worse or equally bad food. Why is it extra? I didn't pay a dime for UM but my point still stands.
2. With the extra money from the more expensive meal plans, why have they never invested in a similar training table for regular students? They can afford the expense IMO but they don't want to have that burden. I am in no way saying the athletes don't deserve their training table. They help to contribute millions of dollars to the University without being able to capitalize on their personality rights.

1. Based on your admitted small sample size. Beyond the usual self-promoting "Campus Spoon" websites, which seem to feature the newest dinning halls, I can't find much objective taste testing. Tottally anecdotal, but a person I work with has one daughter in a state school (not Florida) and one going to Miami, said he didn't see much difference in the costs.

2. Agree 100% with your point, athletes shouldn't get special treatment, but as you realize, since Marky Mark Emmert stopped the bagel and cream cheese rule, the pendulam has swung to getting athletes lavish food benefits. Now it is an arms race favoring the biggest schools (as Marky Mark's masters want).

3. Nice pic of some Marines out of uniform, for Pikes they look a little small, 'roid shipment must have spoiled.

 

[CaneFan79]

I will not miss that dining hall food. Wow they really are selling dreams with that video. The student athletes only get a separate, better meal when the training table is open, which is only for dinner. Those meals are legit. Breakfast and lunch are awful

Ate some of the dining room food at UM while my son studied there...If your complaining about it, you need to try a military chow hall/ships mess deck or a field kitchen meal or a T-rat or a boxed nasty or the penultimate, an MRE. Thats what a lot of vets have eaten ad nauseum ...But then again Frat Boys are supposed to eat better than vets, right?

Speak for yourself. The food at the chow hall at Langley AFB was effin delicious.

Of course the 1st FW zippered suited sun god showplace would be good...Try the 1 SOW Dinners Reefs, that is when I wasn't deployed (and it is back to 1 SOW since pointy jet McPeak's influence has waned).

 

[CaneFan79]

I will not miss that dining hall food. Wow they really are selling dreams with that video. The student athletes only get a separate, better meal when the training table is open, which is only for dinner. Those meals are legit. Breakfast and lunch are awful

Ate some of the dining room food at UM while my son studied there...If your complaining about it, you need to try a military chow hall/ships mess deck or a field kitchen meal or a T-rat or a boxed nasty or the penultimate, an MRE. Thats what a lot of vets have eaten ad nauseum ...But then again Frat Boys are supposed to eat better than vets, right?

Military food ain't all bad.

The chow hall at Subic bay was pretty **** good. So was the mess on the USS Ranger. (MIDRATS FTW baby!)

I remember eating at a chow hall on Okinawa @ Kadena AFB. It was excellent.

MRE's........no thanks, had enough of them clogging up my bowels to last a lifetime.

Glad to hear the Ranger was good, her sister the USS Saratoga was pretty bad...The USNS Range Sentinel had the best Navy chow I ate.

Best I ever had was after a work detail at Lackland AFB. They told us to eat at the chow hall at Wilford Hall Medical Center; leather chairs, table cloths, a carving station for your meat and a ton of sides and salad...Too bad the rest of Air Force chow halls were not as good.

In tech school, we used to hop on the bus after we were released from class, and go over to wilford hall to eat instead of taking the 2 min walk to our chow hall. WH made some restaurants around San Antonio look bad.

Go to chow after class? We had TAC Conditioning after class at my tech school back in the day.

 

[User-4525]

I will not miss that dining hall food. Wow they really are selling dreams with that video. The student athletes only get a separate, better meal when the training table is open, which is only for dinner. Those meals are legit. Breakfast and lunch are awful

Ate some of the dining room food at UM while my son studied there...If your complaining about it, you need to try a military chow hall/ships mess deck or a field kitchen meal or a T-rat or a boxed nasty or the penultimate, an MRE. Thats what a lot of vets have eaten ad nauseum ...But then again Frat Boys are supposed to eat better than vets, right?

He didn't mention frat boys or vets in his post so your last statement is unwarranted.

I am sure there are a lot worse eating situations than the one at the UM dining hall. Two of my main problems with the eating situation are as followed

1. UM's meal plans are more expensive than other schools with a larger student bodies but they give us worse or equally bad food. Why is it extra? I didn't pay a dime for UM but my point still stands.
2. With the extra money from the more expensive meal plans, why have they never invested in a similar training table for regular students? They can afford the expense IMO but they don't want to have that burden. I am in no way saying the athletes don't deserve their training table. They help to contribute millions of dollars to the University without being able to capitalize on their personality rights.

1. Based on your admitted small sample size. Beyond the usual self-promoting "Campus Spoon" websites, which seem to feature the newest dinning halls, I can't find much objective taste testing. Tottally anecdotal, but a person I work with has one daughter in a state school (not Florida) and one going to Miami, said he didn't see much difference in the costs.

2. Agree 100% with your point, athletes shouldn't get special treatment, but as you realize, since Marky Mark Emmert stopped the bagel and cream cheese rule, the pendulam has swung to getting athletes lavish food benefits. Now it is an arms race favoring the biggest schools (as Marky Mark's masters want).

3. Nice pic of some Marines out of uniform, for Pikes they look a little small, 'roid shipment must have spoiled.

Yeah it was definitely a small sample size around 6-7 schools for 1-2 days. UM's meal plans (and other private schools I assume) range from 2.7k to 3.3k (with tax) a semester and the highest meal plan at UCF was 2.3k (w/ tax). Have not checked the other schools.

 

[SFbayCane]

I will not miss that dining hall food. Wow they really are selling dreams with that video. The student athletes only get a separate, better meal when the training table is open, which is only for dinner. Those meals are legit. Breakfast and lunch are awful

Ate some of the dining room food at UM while my son studied there...If your complaining about it, you need to try a military chow hall/ships mess deck or a field kitchen meal or a T-rat or a boxed nasty or the penultimate, an MRE. Thats what a lot of vets have eaten ad nauseum ...But then again Frat Boys are supposed to eat better than vets, right?

Military food ain't all bad.

The chow hall at Subic bay was pretty **** good. So was the mess on the USS Ranger. (MIDRATS FTW baby!)

I remember eating at a chow hall on Okinawa @ Kadena AFB. It was excellent.

MRE's........no thanks, had enough of them clogging up my bowels to last a lifetime.

Glad to hear the Ranger was good, her sister the USS Saratoga was pretty bad...The USNS Range Sentinel had the best Navy chow I ate.

Best I ever had was after a work detail at Lackland AFB. They told us to eat at the chow hall at Wilford Hall Medical Center; leather chairs, table cloths, a carving station for your meat and a ton of sides and salad...Too bad the rest of Air Force chow halls were not as good.

I spent all of 1985 working on the flight deck of the USS Constellation. The food was actually pretty good for ship food. They would always have fresh cinnamon rolls every morning. That was the specialty of the chief that ran the mess hall.