Stadium will NOT be ready...

[Canedude08]

I'm confident that the roof will make Son Life feel like home. We shared a stadium with the Dolphins for decades and it was never a big deal.
Now that this stadium has been updated it shouldn't feel so stale. Every notable college team has a great stadium.
Seminole Hard Rock Stadium might never be Jordan-Hare or Death Valley but it should be night and day now with the ruf.

What's hilarious is that a lot of these facilities that people point to as great are complete pieces of crap. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has bathrooms out of the thirties, Jordan Hare looks like it's ready for demolition, outside of the big money booster areas. Miami has the most modern playing facility in college football right now. It's not particularly close.

Tough places to play though. We had an advantage with the OB that will likely never be duplicated.

They're tough places to play because PEOPLE SHOW UP. People show up to Auburn, or Clemson no matter how good the team is. Most of that is because the alumni bases are significantly larger than ours, AND there's nothing else to do in those areas. UMiami is competing against pro sports, beaches, and the other things that come with living in a major city. Just remember, when Miami was stinking up the joint in the seventies, the OB wasn't winning games for the 'Canes. When Butch was rebuilding the program, the OB was quiet as ****. People have this fog of history thing going with the OB, and it's annoying. Go back and watch some of those old games, even when the program was on top. Unless it was a big name opponent, unless something on the line, it was a ghost town a majority of the time.

 

[DTP]

In all fairness, the Citrus Bowl in Orlando had **** troughs too. At least it did in the late 90's. Haven't been since it's been renovated.

 

[DTP]

I'm confident that the roof will make Son Life feel like home. We shared a stadium with the Dolphins for decades and it was never a big deal.
Now that this stadium has been updated it shouldn't feel so stale. Every notable college team has a great stadium.
Seminole Hard Rock Stadium might never be Jordan-Hare or Death Valley but it should be night and day now with the ruf.

What's hilarious is that a lot of these facilities that people point to as great are complete pieces of crap. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has bathrooms out of the thirties, Jordan Hare looks like it's ready for demolition, outside of the big money booster areas. Miami has the most modern playing facility in college football right now. It's not particularly close.

Tough places to play though. We had an advantage with the OB that will likely never be duplicated.

They're tough places to play because PEOPLE SHOW UP. People show up to Auburn, or Clemson no matter how good the team is. Most of that is because the alumni bases are significantly larger than ours, AND there's nothing else to do in those areas. UMiami is competing against pro sports, beaches, and the other things that come with living in a major city. Just remember, when Miami was stinking up the joint in the seventies, the OB wasn't winning games for the 'Canes. When Butch was rebuilding the program, the OB was quiet as ****. People have this fog of history thing going with the OB, and it's annoying. Go back and watch some of those old games, even when the program was on top. Unless it was a big name opponent, unless something on the line, it was a ghost town a majority of the time.

It's because most UM fans only attend games against rivals and/or other big name opponents. The Orange Bowl always seems raucous when you've only gone for an FSU game with 75,000 other people. The people who actually went to the Rutgers/Temple/random garbage games and sat in a 3/4 empty stadium remember otherwise. Great memories but it's time to let it go and realize Miami is playing in a top of the line facility now.

 

[rok]

I'm confident that the roof will make Son Life feel like home. We shared a stadium with the Dolphins for decades and it was never a big deal.
Now that this stadium has been updated it shouldn't feel so stale. Every notable college team has a great stadium.
Seminole Hard Rock Stadium might never be Jordan-Hare or Death Valley but it should be night and day now with the ruf.

What's hilarious is that a lot of these facilities that people point to as great are complete pieces of crap. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has bathrooms out of the thirties, Jordan Hare looks like it's ready for demolition, outside of the big money booster areas. Miami has the most modern playing facility in college football right now. It's not particularly close.

Tough places to play though. We had an advantage with the OB that will likely never be duplicated.

They're tough places to play because PEOPLE SHOW UP. People show up to Auburn, or Clemson no matter how good the team is. Most of that is because the alumni bases are significantly larger than ours, AND there's nothing else to do in those areas. UMiami is competing against pro sports, beaches, and the other things that come with living in a major city. Just remember, when Miami was stinking up the joint in the seventies, the OB wasn't winning games for the 'Canes. When Butch was rebuilding the program, the OB was quiet as ****. People have this fog of history thing going with the OB, and it's annoying. Go back and watch some of those old games, even when the program was on top. Unless it was a big name opponent, unless something on the line, it was a ghost town a majority of the time.

The UCLA game in 98 had about 40k people there and it felt/sounded like there was 80k.

 

[Ibis Wingz]

I'm confident that the roof will make Son Life feel like home. We shared a stadium with the Dolphins for decades and it was never a big deal.
Now that this stadium has been updated it shouldn't feel so stale. Every notable college team has a great stadium.
Seminole Hard Rock Stadium might never be Jordan-Hare or Death Valley but it should be night and day now with the ruf.

What's hilarious is that a lot of these facilities that people point to as great are complete pieces of crap. Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has bathrooms out of the thirties, Jordan Hare looks like it's ready for demolition, outside of the big money booster areas. Miami has the most modern playing facility in college football right now. It's not particularly close.

Tough places to play though. We had an advantage with the OB that will likely never be duplicated.

They're tough places to play because PEOPLE SHOW UP. People show up to Auburn, or Clemson no matter how good the team is. Most of that is because the alumni bases are significantly larger than ours, AND there's nothing else to do in those areas. UMiami is competing against pro sports, beaches, and the other things that come with living in a major city. Just remember, when Miami was stinking up the joint in the seventies, the OB wasn't winning games for the 'Canes. When Butch was rebuilding the program, the OB was quiet as ****. People have this fog of history thing going with the OB, and it's annoying. Go back and watch some of those old games, even when the program was on top. Unless it was a big name opponent, unless something on the line, it was a ghost town a majority of the time.

The UCLA game in 98 had about 40k people there and it felt/sounded like there was 80k.

Because all of the front running maggot had written UM off and only the REAL fans like you, Fa.gchise and I were there making a lot of noise.

The OB was a dilapidated dump at the end. It was unsafe and it was clear that no one, including The Troll, wanted to save it.

 

[Torocane]

The OB could have been repaired, upgraded and renovated plenty of times. It never was. It was left to fall apart.

But he time it went down it would have taken the majority of the money they could have raised to just fix the structural issues.
That's a lot if money on things you can't see. No up grades of any kind. Just keeping it from falling down.
There was no way the City of Miami would do that.

 

[Memnon]

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