Imagine you're a recruit. You're on a visit to some school in the SEC. The coach takes you around campus, shows you the dorms, the practice facilities, and weight room. Then he walks you out to the 50 yard line of the on-campus stadium, where the announcer calls out your name and your picture is up on the jumbotron. The cheerleaders are chanting your name.
What is Miami gonna show them, the IPF?
Having an on-campus stadium is a huge recruiting tool. And Sun Life Stadium, great as it is, isn't ours. It's a rental. And it's nearly an hour away from campus.
We crank out top 20 classes and beat kids that other sec schools and acc schools want
We even had a top 10 class with cmr.
We also won 5 titles. All without on campus stadium. Ask all the former players if they feel like they’ve missed out on the college experience.
I’m sure cmr would've had a top 3 class just cause he could walk a kid to the stadium and have the announce call his name right?
There are too many venues in dade and broward counties to compete with to raise enough revenue to maintain and upgrade and compare to the stadium we have now. I also guarantee that the property tax in dade county is at least double what it is in Dallas.
Kids visit schools all the time since they’re junior years and see stadiums and have their name called out. It’s not as important as you think.
Yet this comes up year after year by other schools lurkers and trolls that wish they had a stadium half as dope as hard rock. They bring up attendance against crap schools in places where Walmart is an attraction.
People bring this up without knowing anything about dade county and coral gables. The school is literally surrounded by wealthy connected people that ain’t moving and will have several prominent federal Judges, powerful law firms and even people in the White House on speed dial if the school even hinted about an on campus stadium. Which btw there is no room for it as the satellite image that was posted shows.
There was a time when you couldn’t even own a pick up truck if you lived in coral gables.
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free or in our case lease it.
I’ve stated before that one thing he school should start over with is the locker room and the Schwartz center. And with the money they’re saving by not having an on campus or owning a stadium, that place should be a **** shrine instead of what we have. That I agree with 100. But the stadium has proven to be a non issue. In fact, I’ll say hard rock is a **** recruiting advantage.