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Spring Game Question

caneinorlando said:
Pepperdine has the most Beautiful campus I've seen....with UM and Colorado close...
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I have driven by Pepperdine many times but have never set foot on the campus. There is an amazing beach by there called El Matador that has all of these caves that you can access during low tide. I've been to UC-Boulder in the spring (edit - summer) time and it was pretty **** ideal. Just rode bikes through campus and the town. Everyone was outside doing something active. There was a canal there and people were just lazy-man tubing down it.
 
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RightSaidFred said:
Because we’re the only big time university with no on campus stadium.

Because we play our games in a rented stadium.

Because even high schools in South Florida have football stadiums, but not UM.
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And yet we've accomplished all that we have without all that
 
Canes2082 said:
And yet we've accomplished all that we have without all that
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We didn't have an IPF either but we need to keep pace in the arms race. Building our own stadium near campus is a must.

We share a locker room, play with Dolphins branding in the endzones, the student section is empty by the 3rd quarter, and the seats directly behind our bench are empty because those fans are tucked away in a suite watching TV.

Hard Rock is fine when it's packed and rocking but too often it feels like the games are being played in the Grand Canyon.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
It's a Catch-22.

If you only cater to the "current season ticket-holders", then it is hard to ever energize the students. And if the students don't get interested in UM football/basketball/baseball while in school, then they will probably not be big fans as alums.

I was a student, undergrad, grad, and law. You get busy, but if you can just take 5 minutes to walk over for basketball or baseball, it's not as much of a time commitment. Football was tougher, though it was only 6 games and on the weekends.

I am still a fan because of what I experienced as a student. If we "write off" the students as "oh, they don't care, they don't show up", then you will never have an alum fan base 20 years down the road.

Tough all-around situation. It would be hard to get an on-campus stadium, I'd be fine with a nearer-campus stadium.

North of Magic City Casino. Trust me.

On a separate (but related) note, UM needs to start buying up some of the houses around campus.
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Great point. An on campus stadium would be huge for school spirit.
 
It’s not just about having room for a stadium. It’s about having room for parking. It’s about making it possible for people to make it into the stadium without a 4 hour traffic ordeal. Some bull**** mass transit, shuttle bus idea would be incredibly suicidal in a city where NOBODY uses public transportation. UCF built a ~40,000 seat stadium on a campus that’s 5x’s the size of UM’s campus. It’s nowhere near metro Orlando and traffic is not an issue. I still had to park a half a mile from the stadium in a random parking lot on campus to watch the UCF/Cincinnati game last year. There is no logistical way Miami can build an on Campus stadium. Ever. Unless they want to transition to FCS and play in some 12,000 seat high school stadium
 
If they razed Magic City Casino and the dog track there would be plenty of room for a stadium with some parking. The residents nearby would welcome the opportunity to make a buck parking cars on the cement where their lawn should be. Everyone wins.
 
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rokulika said:
The former site of Miami Arena sits completely empty as of today.

Could easily build a 40-50k stadium on those grounds.
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yea... Shalala and the trustee board failed here, big-time. In my 18-year affiliation with the university I can’t say they’ve been as aggressive in acquiring real estate as they could’ve been. Law school should’ve been downtown and that Miami Arena plot could have been ours as well. Should have bought doctors hospital and mount Sinai. Time for bold new leadership; this thing feels rudderless.
 
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All these posts and no time date or location of the spring game. Hopefully we know by March.
 
RightSaidFred said:
Because we’re the only big time university with no on campus stadium.

Because we play our games in a rented stadium.

Because even high schools in South Florida have football stadiums, but not UM.
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We play in one of the best Venues in all of sports , if we win games the stadium will be packed remember in 2017 when we played VT and notre dame the stadium was rocking , a big advantage for us and its a beautiful stadium as well Super Bowl this year and national championship game next year , we just got to win , Miami a fair weather city when it come to sports.
 
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MikeCane18 said:
Not sure if cleared up in this thread or not because it's gone off the rails. Spring Game is the 4/11 at Traz Powell. First day of Spring practice is 3/2. Only 1 other scrimmage on the schedule and will be just for FB Alumni, closed to the public.
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Hoping its at traz. I dont want to go to camping world again. Too much going on that weekend.
 
rokulika said:
We didn't have an IPF either but we need to keep pace in the arms race. Building our own stadium near campus is a must.

We share a locker room, play with Dolphins branding in the endzones, the student section is empty by the 3rd quarter, and the seats directly behind our bench are empty because those fans are tucked away in a suite watching TV.

Hard Rock is fine when it's packed and rocking but too often it feels like the games are being played in the Grand Canyon.
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We are never, ever, ever, ever going to build a stadium where Magic City is. That is a bigger pipe dream than the the on campus stadium that will never, ever, ever, ever going to be built.
 
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Mikep said:
Hoping its at traz. I dont want to go to camping world again. Too much going on that weekend.
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This is the email I got last night with the schedule.

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