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Why couldn't we knock down a few buildings and build a 30k seat stadium where the IM fields currently are?

Look at Tulane's new stadium. I want this.

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rokulika said:
cubin10 said:
rokulika said:
wat?
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you said you wanted it and I said you deserved it and agreed with the location. Are you having a bad day?
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Oh, well in that case...negged.

Just kidding.

God dammit do we deserve this.
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Could have lived with Orange Bowl, but we are actually homeless and do nothing about it. Land was very inexpensive and plentiful in the late 50's and 60's, there was no vision, nor was their protection forever on the OB, just plain stupidity.
 
Its not a question of room. Room could be made and/or a creative vertical design that saves space could be created.

The problem is that Coral Gables just doesnt want the game day atmosphere. Its great when its a tradition but its not great when you own the property and are thinking of all the half drunk or fully drunk tailgaters walking through your front yard and parking all over your flower garden on saturdays. If we had some sort of small place a long time ago that grew over the years this would be accepted. Think BC and the nice neighborhood in chestnut hill. However here you are starting from scratch and people don't want to change what they are used to.

Really thats it. Rich people who have lots of power and political muscle and nice property don't want it and do whatever they can to block any bill to allow it.
 
great, another on-campus stadium thread. let's bring a stadium to a place where the roads can barely handle day-to-day traffic as it is.
 
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The elitist alumni don't want non alumni any where near their mom & dads paid for university.
 
Uptown New Orleans is no different than Coral Gables. Most of the parking can be on-campus. You also have the Metrorail and Sunset Place. This can be done.
 
You might be able to fit the stadium in the IM fields, but where is everyone going to park? You think the well to do people that own those houses on San Amaro Drive are going to be out front with their "$20 no blocky" signs? GTFOH

The ONLY place that makes any sense is Tropical Park. There is plenty of space and access to a major highway. I don't know why we can't make that happen.

Also, if I am not mistaken, there is a law in Coral Gables prohibiting buildings over 4 stories from being built.
 
Stick BC's stadium in Miami and it would be perfect. Good call nikkoum, they added on to BC over the years and now it is a cool spot to watch a game. If Miami had that stadium it would rock. The BC Alums sit on their hands all game. Chestnut Hill is no different then Coral Gables, they moan and groan all the time about the football games.
 
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Uptown New Orleans is no different than Coral Gables. Most of the parking can be on-campus. You also have the Metrorail and Sunset Place. This can be done.
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campus barely has enough parking for the students that live there and the employees. our neck of coral gables comes to a grinding halt when the **** univision awards do their thing at the buc, and it only seats 8,000 people.
 
nikkoum said:
Its not a question of room. Room could be made and/or a creative vertical design that saves space could be created.

The problem is that Coral Gables just doesnt want the game day atmosphere. Its great when its a tradition but its not great when you own the property and are thinking of all the half drunk or fully drunk tailgaters walking through your front yard and parking all over your flower garden on saturdays. If we had some sort of small place a long time ago that grew over the years this would be accepted. Think BC and the nice neighborhood in chestnut hill. However here you are starting from scratch and people don't want to change what they are used to.

Really thats it. Rich people who have lots of power and political muscle and nice property don't want it and do whatever they can to block any bill to allow it.
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There are roughly 7 home games per year. Most CG residents wouldn't care about 7 days a year of traffic/madness. It's literally like 70 hours of game day environment per year. That is not the problem.
 
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I think Miami needs a stadium with at least 50k seats. 30k would be an embarrassment for this program. Give me all the **** you want. I'd rather have 25k show up at Sun Life then have a Div-1AA stadium.
 
i did a feasibility study on what it would take to get us a stadium when i was in grad school. it cannot happen on campus, primarily because of infrastructure and space.

sunlife and its parking lots sit on 160 acres. say we wanted to reduce everything down by 1/3, that gives us about 106 acres (give or take) to fit our stadium site. we would have to get the state to build a stretch of highway in order to handle stadium traffic. in 2008, highway construction costs were $2.4-6.9 million/lane/mile. so if you go with the median of $4.65 million/lane/mile and build a minimalist 4-lane highway (2 lanes each way), that's $18.6 million/mile of road that the state of florida has to fund, not including having to purchase the existing properties along the path of a proposed highway or the demolition costs needed to make the roads.

our window to build an on-campus stadium closed decades ago. everything between i-95 and coral gables is too developed, as is everything between campus and the 826. as much as i would love to have it, a stadium for a small private school in the middle of a dense urban area is not a justifiable reason to destroy homes and businesses. also, good luck getting the state to even sniff at a $60-70 million+ highway project for it.

if we want a stadium, it's tropical park or nothing.
 
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a on stadium campus just won't happen in Coral Gables

Tropical Park is the best location like one of the above poster said
 
People that think this would ever be doable within the Gables need to realize that it was only like two years ago that they even started to allow residents to park personal use trucks overnight in their own freaking driveways. Tropical Park on the other hand is just the prime exemplifier that there's no desire from the school to ever do this on their own.
 
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