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Ok. Not a thread for stadium deniers

JayCane20 said:
It has nothing to do with how great Hard Rock is

Any idea the revenue we miss out on by not having our own stadium? Not even factoring in the cost of the lease we're just giving away

Naming rights, sponsorships, concessions, parking, other ancillary items, lease and event revenue, etc. That's what happens when you get big-businessmen involved and looking at your financials to help.. they think of and identify the areas where more money can come from

If the university was footing the bill and the benefit was decades in the future.. ok probably not.

But someone else is looking to foot the bill and the university gets all or most of the benefit at no cost... football would be self-sustaining the entire athletic dept. Hard to pass up
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That's the only reason to do so. All this talk about closer to campus or on campus will probably hurt attendance more than help it. But offsetting that with a different revenue stream would sure be nice.
 
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JayCane20 said:
The Baylor stadium is also a good model built in a small space with limited access - they built a bridge over the river from campus and it is surrounded by highway and interstates. Very limited parking area outside the stadium.

Very well engineered flow of traffic and walkways and utilization of pre-existing parking.

It's also the open-ended bowl design similar to the Orange Bowl. Wasn't all that expensive to build. I think the whole project cost them $250-260M
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IF WE'RE DREAMING I agree.

35-45 maximum capacity will work best for us. No need for anything larger. Also can recoup costs more readily to go into profit mode earlier.

Would also build 4 ten story parking lots adjacent to stadium to minimize area footprint. Put fans close to field to as possible to make it a louder more intimate experience for our fans...and more intimidating experience for opponents.

Scarcity of tickets will increase overall demand and students attendance. No more embarrassing empty seats shots
 
Tru C said:
Yes, i want Miami to move into a 50,000 seat stadium if that is what it takes because it would be owned and operated 100% by UM.

Did you know that Camron Indoor Stadium at Duke is one of the smallest basketball arenas in the country? Certainly smaller than UNC but guess what? The DEMAND for tickets is more and therefore a higher premium. 100% of that revenue would go to UM. Curious, who gets more revenue, Baylor, at the stadium they own or Miami, at the stadium they rent.
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That's all I needed to hear. You want us to become the UCF of the south. OMG
 
JD08 said:
That's the only reason to do so. All this talk about closer to campus or on campus will probably hurt attendance more than help it. But offsetting that with a different revenue stream would sure be nice.
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It will 100% hurt attendance.
 
ZCanes said:
I don’t get the allure of a stadium closer to campus with the size of the student body. What is it, 10k?

On campus makes sense for huge schools with a large number of students. Schools like Alabama, Michigan, Penn State, etc have on campus student parties on gamedays that have more student attendees than the total number of students at Miami, just for a party. That is what an on campus gameday atmosphere is.

For a school like us with such a small number of students, it’s dumb to waste the resources to make a stadium close to the school so that a few thousand students don’t have to take a bus to HRS.

The majority of the fans that go to games are not students and HRS is way easier to get to for the overall fan base. Plus HRS is and will be a far better stadium than any Mickey Mouse 50k stadium they build anywhere else.

Once we are good HRS will be rocking
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Yep. Best comparables to UM demos and that have stadiums on campus are Boston college and Notre Dame.
 
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MainLineCane said:
IF WE'RE DREAMING I agree.

35-45 maximum capacity will work best for us. No need for anything larger. Also can recoup costs more readily to go into profit mode earlier.

Would also build 4 ten story parking lots adjacent to stadium to minimize area footprint. Put fans close to field to as possible to make it a louder more intimate experience for our fans...and more intimidating experience for opponents.

Scarcity of tickets will increase overall demand and students attendance. No more embarrassing empty seats shots
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Per ACC rules, don't you have to have at least 55K capacity?
 
rok said:
I'm in favor of 50-55k but trying to meet these Broward/PBC folks in the middle.
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Realistically, 55k would be about right, but now you're bringing up Broward/PBC, are you talking location? Because there's plenty of land down in Homestead near the race track. They manage to get 50,000+ people in there without a problem.

Now we can listen to most of the Dade people say how that's a terrible idea because suddenly their drive to the stadium increases.
 
rok said:
I'm in favor of 50-55k but trying to meet these Broward/PBC folks in the middle.
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Isn't playing games at the north end of Dade County -- like 21 miles from campus — not meeting those Broward and Palm Beach folks in the middle?
 
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rok said:
Can we all agree on 60k capacity?
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Yup, they are looking into that. They haven't committed to a certain capacity yet but that's the idea with 55k being the absolute minimum. It'll likely be 58k-62k with options to add on.
 
rsa coral gables said:
here's your cold water in the face moment

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Literally Barry Jackson has been wrong on anything Miami, and reports things after the fact. I’ve now learned to take whatever this dude say w/ a grain of salt. The coaching situation & all his horrible intel should tell u all u need to know about any of his tweets moving forward. Not saying he’s wrong; just saying don’t put stock in it.
 
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