Richt kills it in response to no on campus stadium

[Jeeperaf]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access

Positives...its now a world class...yes world.class...sporting facility...

Canes start winning, the fickle fans (identical to LA) will show up because its the hot thing to do...

If the new acoustics are as advertised, supposed to be as loud (or louder depending on air temp and humidity) as a Seahawks game...

The Canes will now play in arguably THE BEST college facility in the NCAA...

If Miami.can solve the "get the students there" piece + loyal SoFla fans...the place could be arguably the best in-game experience in the NCAA...

remember UM is at a disadvantage just from.numbers...its what so disingenuous when tje talkimg.heads run their mouths about lack of attendance...for perspective, UM has ~16K total enrolled (if i remember my alumni news correctly)...FSU has ~42K total enrolled...

in SoFla (like LA), people have lots of options with time and where to spend $, in FSU, they live in Tally...Michigan is in Ann Arbor, Bama is in banjoville, same with OSU...they dont have near the conpetition...if those schools were in SoFla or LA, they also wouldnt have the attendance they do today.

One last point....Richard Simmons is an FSU alumni...need I say more?

 

[LuCane]

Good for Richt and ultimately I agree that winning cures everything, but a canopy is not going to stop guys like Jimbo and Saban from using the "gameday atmosphere" line to negative recruit against us.

While I really don't like Sun Life's feel (distance and perception to field), winning and buzz make it a negligible difference, I think.

The gameday atmosphere at the last FSU home game was f'in insane. It was mass hysteria there until our leadership ran out of bullets and lost its nerve.

We should be going into that game 4-0 this year. Prob will be another great atmosphere.

Could be #3 FSU @ #11 Miami. Someone rock out to the Shockey arms extended picture...

 

[DTP]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

 

[The Franchise]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

100% truth. OB was often a 3 hour adventure just trying to leave. Sun Life is as easy as it gets.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

So you actually went to games in the OB.

It's amazing the people that reminisce about the OB "experience" and leave this out.

Loved the historic games I attended there and loved the wins and the magic, but that dump was way past its prime and was literally falling apart around us. We had to move anyway, city of Miami left us no option.

 

[DTP]

The games and the atmosphere were indeed historic. The amenities were bottom of the barrel and often negatively affected game day experience.

 

[LuCane]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

100% truth. OB was often a 3 hour adventure just trying to leave. Sun Life is as easy as it gets.

Some exceptional stories came from OB pre and post game experiences. How many places can you say that you find a dead body at 10AM while tailgaiting for a crap noon game? Unique part was the cops came, taped the area off and everyone went about their business. "No big deal...just a dead lady in her car. Hey, is Kirby Freeman starting today?"

 

[NJshoreCane]

View attachment 37043

Stadium shot from today. I'm not gonna lie it looks great. Fill the stands!

The roof scales the place down a bit. It actually looks smaller.
That's a good thing.

 

[rsa coral gables]

Good for Richt and ultimately I agree that winning cures everything, but a canopy is not going to stop guys like Jimbo and Saban from using the "gameday atmosphere" line to negative recruit against us.

While I really don't like Sun Life's feel (distance and perception to field), winning and buzz make it a negligible difference, I think.

The gameday atmosphere at the last FSU home game was f'in insane. It was mass hysteria there until our leadership ran out of bullets and lost its nerve.

We should be going into that game 4-0 this year. Prob will be another great atmosphere.

Could be #3 FSU @ #11 Miami. Someone rock out to the Shockey arms extended picture...

 

[NJshoreCane]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

I tell those "no blockee" haggle stories all the time.
I usually went the "ten dolla- blockie" route figuring that it was 50/50 (at best) that your "no blockee" spot was blocked.

 

[caneballza]

Not sure how he "killed it" on the response.

 

[Jeeperaf]

DTP...

You are 100% spot on...I should have been more clear...what I intended to say was, as students, we could roll out of bed from all night bender in CG after Big Daddy's philly cheese steak therapy...get on metro trans to OBish arrival...still somewhat hammered from night before...

Not same.experience from.campus to Joe Robbie now...quite a bit longer and what not...

absolutely correct for everyone else...the OB was a traffic nightmare for anyone driving there...got a little nostalgic over the "no blockee..no blockee..aqui..aqui..."

 

[FIUMCane]

I work right next to Marlins Park. These people still out here with the "no blockee" signs. Lololol reminds me of the good old days.

 

[Jeeperaf]

Hey, is Kirby Freeman starting today?"

How about Ryan Collins starting over a struggling Frank Costa? Now that's deep from the Hurricanes' vault in the OB archives....

 

[ThomasM]

This thread got me thinking. Name one college team that plays in a nicer stadium than Sun Life. I can't think of one but I'm sure there's a couple out there.

Who cares who has the "nicest" stadium? Kids rather play in stadiums such as the Swamp, Doak, Blacksburgh, etc. Couched seats in college football isn't helping our cause either.

So you honestly think a kid is saying "man I'm not going to Miami they have those couch seats in the stadium"? Com'on?!?!
Again, if attendance mattered that much then Michigan and Tennessee would go undefeated every year.

As mentioned win some games, and a big game to boot and see what happens.

You think a state of the art stadium isn't a selling point? Kids will love seeing their replays on those massive screens.

 

[UMinati]

So I can party all night with some of the most beautiful women on the planet,
eat stone crab on the beach in the morning in 85 degree weather,
then take a 45 minute drive to the game to sip mojitos from a comfy couch
in one the best stadiums in the country...
and that's supposed to be negative? OK

 

[DTP]

Negative for Joe Robbie (thats its name **** it!) is getting in/out...OB at least had metrorail/bus access
?

If you're in the 99% of South Florida residents who don't use public transportation, it's the exact opposite.

Joe Robbie: get off turnpike, pull into stadium, park in a space.

Orange Bowl: get off I-95 or 836, drive through bumper to bumper traffic on one way narrow streets for 45 minutes. Find some guy yelling "Twenty dolla no blockeee!!" Park in his yard. Walk 13 blocks to stadium. Come back to find your car blocked in by twelve other cars.

100% truth. OB was often a 3 hour adventure just trying to leave. Sun Life is as easy as it gets.

Some exceptional stories came from OB pre and post game experiences. How many places can you say that you find a dead body at 10AM while tailgaiting for a crap noon game? Unique part was the cops came, taped the area off and everyone went about their business. "No big deal...just a dead lady in her car. Hey, is Kirby Freeman starting today?"

It was always an adventure. There was one season my buddy convinced me and some other friends that a clearly marked "No parking" lot was OK to park in. "I do it all the time. A bunch of people always park there and nobody's ever gotten a ticket". Indeed for a couple of games, we felt we had hit the parking jackpot. Free and close to the stadium. Until one late afternoon West Virginia game when everyone who parked in that lot got towed. I had to walk through the hood with about 40 other random suckers who also parked there to the impound lot to get our cars back. The Orange Bowl was perfect for me in my 20's. Kinda ****** but loud and cheap. Didn't mind the random adventures or getting lost trying to find a short cut through traffic when I was 25. Now I'm older, I like good beer, comfortable seats and on site parking. I ain't got time for the random craziness associated with the Orange Bowl.

 

[dadecounty25]

So are we playing in it the first game or not? I wanna buy the tickets already.

 

[DTP]

Buy em. The stadium will be open.

 

[ncncanes]

Miami fans are awful - canes, fins, heat, marlins - even for big games
- People forget if it werent for the FSU fans we wouldn't even sell out the Miami-FSU games in the OB
- With that said, there was about 45-50K core fans that were loud and really close to the field
- West End Zone was about 8 inches from the fans