Tailgating by students no longer supported by UM

[Canedude08]

Nothing screams fun like hanging around a bunch of gameless douchebags that have to rely on getting underage chicks ****faced wasted in order to pull some action. Let's cut the nonsense: The frats at UMiami are lame, because we are in MIAMI. This isn't Tuscaloosa, where you have to have letters in order to get laid. The frats were garbage when I was in undergrad, they were still garbage when stayed for grad school, and they were steaming horse**** when I attended law school.

You can have a ton of fun at a tailgate, you can get some drinks in, play some beer pong, and maybe throw in some flip cup for the ladies. That said, the way the **** show has degenerated over the last four years is unacceptable. It's not funny anymore, it's becoming pathetic, and a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Bingo. Having an off campus stadium really amps the binge drinking to a next level. I've been to a lot of schools and a lot of different tailgates and the Hard Rock Stadium scene is more of a rampage drunk fest than schools that have the on campus stadium with the slow burn.

Now with Miami back in the national picture and having prime time games the school does not want to be responsible for it anymore because they've kneecaped their students by making them have a 40+ minute ride back to campus. Can't just walk back up your block to your dorm like most other schools.

I wouldn't even call it kneecapping the student body: The school is stuck where they are stuck, barring South Miami getting leveled to the ground by an act of god. Like you, I've been to games at other schools, and it is obvious how different the gameday atmosphere is, especially in regards to tailgating. That said, these kids also get blackout drunk when they aren't at tailgates(I stopped hanging out at Barracudas for this reason, got tired of stupid asses puking everywhere), so maybe this is just a cultural problem with the UMiami student body. Most of these kids are socially inept, there seems to be a lot of "Tryhardism" there that wasn't there when I was an undergrad. As a result, being totally wasted is considered cool, when just a decade ago, people would have called you a moron for getting that ****ed up at a tailgate.

 

[Canedude08]

Pretty sure all this was run through University counsel and this is what they came up with.

If you have a better ideas, let the school know.

But sorry, not feeling it for entitled brats not getting their safe space to get blind drunk in. Which is what they’re are asking for.

the university counsel is bs and definitely doesn't reflect the way probably 75% of the campus feels.

As a UM grad and current attorney, I highly doubt this has anything to do with the university's counsel. Actually, it could lead to a negligence suit if someone drives drunk and kills someone on the way to the game or something.

This is all about the school wanting a certain image.

The university has always tried to make it harder to be a normal college student. I guess that's part of the price you pay for going to UM instead of a large public school like UF, but it seems like it gets more ridiculous each year. College students drink, that's life. You don't have to promote it but you have to realize you're not going to stop it.

Even if you don't care about UM students, hopefully you realize this will hurt student attendance and therefore be had for Miami football.

As an attorney(and fellow 'Cane), you should know that this isn't about Miami cramping down, and being "The Man", but this is about the school doing a rational, sensible thing and covering their *** both from a legal and PR perspective. The school bends over backwards to help these dumbasses have fun, you can EASILY take the bus to the stadium, hang with your friends that drove(If you don't have a DD rotation, you are stupid as **** anyway), and still not put others at risk. We're talking about kids who for the most part drive cars that are far nicer than their professors, they could afford to take an uber, or do something else entirely. I'm not going to excuse this crap, because I was a student once upon a time, and I managed to figure this **** out. These kids should be able to do the same.

"the school bends over backwards to help these dumbasses have fun".

Bruh no they don't last year they banned music with explicit lyrics or that they deemed "too loud" whatever the **** that means, and DJ setups (loudspeakers)

You know why they banned the explicit music and the like? Because people were bumping loud ***, profane music around kids at 10AM, and people with actual money got sick of it. I love hip-hop, but guess what, I'm not bumping unedited 'Pac in a parking lot full of people, especially around children. If by some chance I do choose to play a song here and there(I'll admit clean versions of songs tend to be pretty awful), I'm not going to have a DJ set up. Maybe a nice ghetto blaster, set at a volume that doesn't go beyond my immediate area.

A lot of people think that a tailgate is an excuse to be a jackass, when it's not. It's an opportunity to hang out, have some fun, while respecting the boundaries of people around you. Not a complicated concept, but when you have a bunch of idiots that think they are Bluto, someone has to do something. You really think that adults want to sit around and tell other adults **** they should already know? No, but unfortunately, we live in a society in which you have to legislate common sense, because most people don't understand otherwise.

 

[Canedude08]

Bingo. Having an off campus stadium really amps the binge drinking to a next level. I've been to a lot of schools and a lot of different tailgates and the Hard Rock Stadium scene is more of a rampage drunk fest than schools that have the on campus stadium with the slow burn.

Now with Miami back in the national picture and having prime time games the school does not want to be responsible for it anymore because they've kneecaped their students by making them have a 40+ minute ride back to campus. Can't just walk back up your block to your dorm like most other schools.

Not necessarily. I've talked to friends who still live in Orlando and they've said that since UCF opened their on-campus stadium, taligating has exploded. Now, tens of thousands of kids show up to tailgate (drink) and never even go to the game.

Now, I'm not saying it doesn't get rowdy at Hard Rock because in certain sections it's crazy but that's mostly the fans, not the college kids.

UCF has a great setup for tailgating, hanging out on that giant grass lot in front of the library was a solid experience back when we made that trip. That said, it's a lot different when you play on campus, a lot different.