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On Campus Stadium Question

UM prepared a 20 year master plan for its property approved by the board of trustees and submitted and negotiated with the city of coral gables. there is no stadium in that master plan and there never will be. neither the city nor its citizens will allow it
 
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Put a stadium like Standford's at Trpical park and Miami football is back. Their stadium holds 50k and is just phenomenal.
 
money talks....if the money is ponied up, we can get a new stadium. that's the least of our concerns and it's hurting us. as a recruit, why in the **** would i leave playing in a high school atmosphere to go to a school where i will be playing infront of a highschool atmosphere?? i want the big stage, i want to feel a true home field advantage. we don't have a home field advantage and it's killing us in so many ways.
 
Stanford Stadium is great I've been there. We don't need more than 30-40k but 50k would be great.
 
The most comical aspect of the Tropical Park discussion is that Blake James (and others before him) will cite that it's county land as if that'd be some major obstacle. The access to the land is a phony issue. Their desire to self-fund construction along with a financial contentment about our current lease terms are the real roadblocks. If we had any real journalists in Miami they would get the county commissioner whose district Tropical Park falls within to at least say the county would be open to discussions. Instead, we allow the school to always frame the discussion in a disingenuous manner.
 
Tulane is my alma mater, so I'll chime in. This was a long time coming for Tulane, but remember, they had an on campus stadium from the 1890s-1974, so it's not like there wasn't any history of them playing on campus. Also, they got lucky with donors. The stadium is named for the Yulmans, a rich business guy whose daughter went to Tulane. The field is named for Tom Benson, the owner of the Saints who donated $10 million. The stadium cost $60 million. Anyone want to pony up? Tulane did run into problems with the neighborhood around the campus, because the school is even more residential than UM. They took it before the zoning commission, but lost. They did push back construction 2-3 months and cost the school $3 million. It's one of the reasons the stadium only seats 30,000. It's designed to expand, and there are plans to expand to 35,000 and then 42,000 within the next 5-10 years. That size is perfect for Tulane. Miami needs a little bigger. Start at 40K with the ability to expand to 45-50 if needed.

As for the stadium itself, it's great, and if we ever could build one, I hope it would be like this. And it could easily fit. Yulman was built right on the old practice field in between the AD and baseball stadium
 
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You know which buildings are next to the IM Fields the freshman dorms, they will not knock them down you need to find a new location.
 
Notsince1985 said:
Tulane is my alma mater, so I'll chime in. This was a long time coming for Tulane, but remember, they had an on campus stadium from the 1890s-1974, so it's not like there wasn't any history of them playing on campus. Also, they got lucky with donors. The stadium is named for the Yulmans, a rich business guy whose daughter went to Tulane. The field is named for Tom Benson, the owner of the Saints who donated $10 million. The stadium cost $60 million. Anyone want to pony up? Tulane did run into problems with the neighborhood around the campus, because the school is even more residential than UM. They took it before the zoning commission, but lost. They did push back construction 2-3 months and cost the school $3 million. It's one of the reasons the stadium only seats 30,000. It's designed to expand, and there are plans to expand to 35,000 and then 42,000 within the next 5-10 years. That size is perfect for Tulane. Miami needs a little bigger. Start at 40K with the ability to expand to 45-50 if needed.

As for the stadium itself, it's great, and if we ever could build one, I hope it would be like this. And it could easily fit. Yulman was built right on the old practice field in between the AD and baseball stadium
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Did they not build it pretty much where the old Tulane Stadium was?
 
johnnytsunami01 said:
You know which buildings are next to the IM Fields the freshman dorms, they will not knock them down you need to find a new location.
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Those are the ugliest buildings in Miami. Everyone wins if they knock those down and build some new dorms elsewhere. The only other spot I can think of is in front of West Lab.
 
rokulika said:
johnnytsunami01 said:
You know which buildings are next to the IM Fields the freshman dorms, they will not knock them down you need to find a new location.
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Those are the ugliest buildings in Miami. Everyone wins if they knock those down and build some new dorms elsewhere. The only other spot I can think of is in front of West Lab.
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Well they are about to undergo a renovation (not externally, but still) so don't get your hopes up. Coral Gables would also never allow them to build towers like today.
 
If they knocked down Mark Light, the parking structure, and Cobb Stadium they could build one big mixed-use facility. Like a miniature Son Life where football, baseball, soccer are all played.
 
MizCane said:
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.
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Preach. Since when do we aim to want a stadium similar to Tulanes? A Miami at the top of its game can easily seat 50k. A 30k stadium would send a even worse message to recruits then sun life does now.
 
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rokulika said:
Notsince1985 said:
Tulane is my alma mater, so I'll chime in. This was a long time coming for Tulane, but remember, they had an on campus stadium from the 1890s-1974, so it's not like there wasn't any history of them playing on campus. Also, they got lucky with donors. The stadium is named for the Yulmans, a rich business guy whose daughter went to Tulane. The field is named for Tom Benson, the owner of the Saints who donated $10 million. The stadium cost $60 million. Anyone want to pony up? Tulane did run into problems with the neighborhood around the campus, because the school is even more residential than UM. They took it before the zoning commission, but lost. They did push back construction 2-3 months and cost the school $3 million. It's one of the reasons the stadium only seats 30,000. It's designed to expand, and there are plans to expand to 35,000 and then 42,000 within the next 5-10 years. That size is perfect for Tulane. Miami needs a little bigger. Start at 40K with the ability to expand to 45-50 if needed.

As for the stadium itself, it's great, and if we ever could build one, I hope it would be like this. And it could easily fit. Yulman was built right on the old practice field in between the AD and baseball stadium
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Did they not build it pretty much where the old Tulane Stadium was?
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No. The old Tulane stadium site is now on campus apartments, the student rec center and an IM field. No way it would fit in the same spot since Tulane stadium sat 85,000.
 
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Just about any location is going to face major hurdles with the residential areas.
****, the FAU AD is already worried about the Miami game at FAU next year due to the traffic and the lack of roads and that thing is literally on 95.
Thousands who went to the US Friendly got jammed up in traffic, granted it was a week night, but Miami always has crappy traffic.
 
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