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Genghis Cane said:
lol this argument can’t be serious?

The game was in ******* Miami, where, you know, 90% of our fan base resides.

I’m asking why Indiana fans — who had to travel unlike most of our fan base — were able to secure more tickets than us.

They had to fly, find a place to stay, and spend extra money on food, etc. We’re talking thousands of extra dollars ON TOP of the exorbitant ticket prices. And yet, we were outnumbered in our own stadium.

I’m not sure why this doesn’t **** you off. It’s embarrassing no matter what excuse some of you try to manufacture. I feel bad for the players. They deserved better.
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For one thing the IU alumni base is 4 times the size of Miami's at just over 800,000. So simply from an alumni point of view and not "fans" IU had a huge numeric advantage ... for a program that had never in its history been even a blip on the radar in football. It was the interest FROM that large group that drove the ticket prices to insane levels. Seats in my normal section were going for $6500. I am a UM fan not an alum (MBA from BC) and have had season tickets from 1990 through most seasons until 2024 when I switched to single game tickets. When we beat Ole Miss I said to my wife " I am going to the game with Mike" and figured tickets would be in the $1000 range. Saw the price ... $6500 ... change of plans. I know several other friends that actually live in Miami (I don't ... I live in Central Florida) that had the same reaction.
 
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Pearson704 said:
Lease runs through 2033.

Modular seating and retractible field at Loan Depot Park is the only viable alternative and that wouldn't take more than 3 years to accomplish. I truly believe if that's what UM wanted there would be political support to make it happen. Otherwise it's HRS.
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Not happening.
 
AuoraCane said:
Yea Cane fan from Palm Beach Country won't drive to Hard Rock to watch Miami beat up on Wake Forest, but they will drive further to watch them beat them in their own stadium.
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This is what some people on here forget is the majority of our season ticket holders live north of the 305.
 
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We're not getting a Hurricanes only Stadium.....
let it go GIF
 
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canecrazy23 said:
Hate to break it to the Anti Hard Rock folks UM will most likely extend that lease.
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Not even a matter of being anti-hardrock or not. Just common sense what other option do they have that exists as of now? This place isn't an option even with their ability to expand to $37,000 seats why would we do that? That also tells you we would never even if somehow we could figure it out with Coral gables would we have any interests to build a stadium on campus we don't have the room on campus Coral gables would never allow it and traffic would be beyond impossible. Number three and four I suppose tamiami or tropical Park those are the only realistic options or I suppose building a bigger stadium at this place where this soccer stadium went up as well is an option but none of those things would happen inside the time frame of when the lease is up for hard Rock. Oh last other option which is the only one I'd actually like would be the Marlins leaving town which has been something that was discussed seemed like it might have been a realistic thing for Vegas until the As. So many things would be made whole if we got the land of the OB back. But all of this is venturing into the grounds of not realistic. Hard Rock it is we're pretty much stuck with that.
 
Trav said:
lol no.

For the 10000th time, the issue isn't stadium location. There just aren't that many hardcore fans who want to go to the non "big" games. You get a sense of this at the big games. I haven't been in years since I moved out of Miami but for the big games, especillay night games I'd always be surrounded by people who didn't know the game, didn't know the players, didn't know anything. They were there because it was an event. These people aren't coming to a 2:30pm game vs. Wake when it's 88 degress with a 60% chance of rain.

But even with that we'll draw 40k at least. They're not moving to a baby soccer stadium.
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The only reason I dont go to games as much is because I live in Jersey now, but I went to lots of home games when I lived in Orlando.
 
Hard rock is fine, besides the seat color and I wish they would do away with the club seats in the front row of the end zone.

It really takes you out of it when we score a big touchdown and there’s no one sitting in those seats.

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And I know it’s pregame but that’s how those luxury seats normally look unless it’s a big game
 
Brooklyndee said:
Not even a matter of being anti-hardrock or not. Just common sense what other option do they have that exists as of now? This place isn't an option even with their ability to expand to $37,000 seats why would we do that? That also tells you we would never even if somehow we could figure it out with Coral gables would we have any interests to build a stadium on campus we don't have the room on campus Coral gables would never allow it and traffic would be beyond impossible. Number three and four I suppose tamiami or tropical Park those are the only realistic options or I suppose building a bigger stadium at this place where this soccer stadium went up as well is an option but none of those things would happen inside the time frame of when the lease is up for hard Rock. Oh last other option which is the only one I'd actually like would be the Marlins leaving town which has been something that was discussed seemed like it might have been a realistic thing for Vegas until the As. So many things would be made whole if we got the land of the OB back. But all of this is venturing into the grounds of not realistic. Hard Rock it is we're pretty much stuck with that.
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marlins cannot leave miami until the $2.5B bonds have been paid off. so we would have destroyed the orange bowl, built a stadium at a total cost of $2.5B to only knock it down and make another $3.5 billion stadium to play 6-7 home games?

the math doesn't add up. there are ZERO solutions. we are staying at Hard Rock for the next century. and i'm OK with that. the program is back and that's what counts for me.
 
Genghis Cane said:
Why did more Indiana fans buy most of that 25k allotment. What’s the excuse? I’ve yet to hear a good one.
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I'm being called a "dim bulb" for asking that question.

I was constantly looking at ticket sites before the game. There was not a massive amount of tickets being sold in the other half of the stadium on secondary markets. In fact, very few. Somehow all these "corporate" seats ended up in the hands of Indiana fans at what would seem to be not secondary market prices. I was also never aware of a "general sale" for those seats. So somebody tell me how half the stadium was "corporate seats" yet all those seats were occupied by Indiana fans. I watched multiple sections of tickets that were $5K-$6K a piece that never sold after 7 days, so don't tell me they were willing to spend more. I refuse to believe Indiana fans were shelling out $10K-$20K for tickets and another $3K-$4K for hotels and travel.

People want to s*** all over Miami fans and how they attend games but I've been going to Miami games for decades. If the game is big fans down here will claw to get inside the building. I expected that game to be 50/50 and it wasn't. I'm telling you as a fan whose attended games since the 80's, there should have been more Miami fans there. You can try and clown me all you want but something happened with ticket distribution at that game.
 
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hurricaneman said:
I'm being called a "dim bulb" for asking that question.

I was constantly looking at ticket sites before the game. There was not a massive amount of tickets being sold in the other half of the stadium on secondary markets. In fact, very few. Somehow all these "corporate" seats ended up in the hands of Indiana fans at what would seem to be not secondary market prices. I was also never aware of a "general sale" for those seats. So somebody tell me how half the stadium was "corporate seats" yet all those seats were occupied by Indiana fans. I watched multiple sections of tickets that were $5K-$6K a piece that never sold after 7 days.

People want to s*** all over Miami fans and how they attend games but I've been going to Miami games for decades. If the game is big fans down here will claw to get inside the building. I expected that game to be 50/50 and it wasn't. I'm telling you as a fan whose attended games since the 80's, there should have been more Miami fans there. You can try and clown me all you want but something happened with ticket distribution at that game.
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If you're referring to my epithet in post 71, that was specific to those who claimed this was a home game as opposed to a game in our home stadium. You're just questioning the numbers disparity, therefore you don't qualify as a dim bulb.

I explained one possible reason for the disparity in post 100. Indiana jumped on tickets early because they expected to be there. We had no idea if we'd get past aTm.
 
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I explained one possible reason for the disparity in post 100. Indiana jumped on tickets early because they expected to be there. We had no idea if we'd get past aTm.
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I brought that up but people told me national championship tickets didn't go on sale until after the semi's. I had my tickets through the school so I don't know exactly when general tickets were made available, if at all.

My only thought is that Indiana somehow purchased all those corporate seats through various means and treated it like a general sale. I looked it up and here's some info about those seats. Apparently they were made available in September:

For the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship in Miami, approximately 25,000 tickets were allocated to corporate partners, including RevelXP and On Location, as part of premium travel and hospitality packages.
  • Total Allocation: The roughly 25,000 tickets represent the remaining inventory after 20,000 tickets were allocated to each participating university (Miami and Indiana).
  • Package Features: RevelXP, in partnership with the CFP for "Playoff Premium," offered packages that included game tickets, all-inclusive pregame hospitality, and access to exclusive events like the Champions Party.
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I can't see what those prices were for the NC game but you can go to the On Location website now for the Final 4 + championship game for basketball starting at $1,400 per person.

They may have bought all those seats through that service early because they knew about it. If that's true then it's something for Miami fans to remember for next year.
 
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Brooklyndee said:
Not even a matter of being anti-hardrock or not. Just common sense what other option do they have that exists as of now? This place isn't an option even with their ability to expand to $37,000 seats why would we do that? That also tells you we would never even if somehow we could figure it out with Coral gables would we have any interests to build a stadium on campus we don't have the room on campus Coral gables would never allow it and traffic would be beyond impossible. Number three and four I suppose tamiami or tropical Park those are the only realistic options or I suppose building a bigger stadium at this place where this soccer stadium went up as well is an option but none of those things would happen inside the time frame of when the lease is up for hard Rock. Oh last other option which is the only one I'd actually like would be the Marlins leaving town which has been something that was discussed seemed like it might have been a realistic thing for Vegas until the As. So many things would be made whole if we got the land of the OB back. But all of this is venturing into the grounds of not realistic. Hard Rock it is we're pretty much stuck with that.
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the marlins cant leave until their bonds on Marlins Park is up im pretty sure or the owners gotta pay everything back to the county.
 
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