(11-23-2013 02:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Isn't this more of an ACC thread than a "College Sports and Conference Realignment" thread?

Hardly anything on this board has to do with Realignment and if it does it's usually trolling.

(11-23-2013 11:26 PM)Jet915 Wrote:  

(11-23-2013 06:35 PM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote:  Anything in Miami suffers attendance problems unless they are winning a lot and even then it requires winning big or big events to help out. Miami is among the worst sports cities in the USA period.

Agree completely, totally horrible sports town. Not sure why Lebron wants to put an MLS team there.

He does not really know the place. He sees largish crowds at most of his games and thinks this is the norm rather than the exception and that it will be gone if things go sour (much faster than he would expect too).

Most people do not realize how bad it really is. I only know because my grandmother was born there and lived there for decades from before these sports teams and beyond. The stories of failed crowd ventures in Miami (and things that should have died but didn't) is quite long.

It's not a large school by enrollment, only 15k students. They have to lure casual fans to bolster attendance.

(11-23-2013 11:26 PM)Jet915 Wrote:  

(11-23-2013 06:35 PM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote:  Anything in Miami suffers attendance problems unless they are winning a lot and even then it requires winning big or big events to help out. Miami is among the worst sports cities in the USA period.

Agree completely, totally horrible sports town. Not sure why Lebron wants to put an MLS team there.

Ego

The Miami Seahawks are a testament to Miami's apathetic.

Didn't see the game but according to the box score the attendance was 44,372.

(11-23-2013 05:54 PM)LSUtah Wrote:  The "U" glory days are over and may never return. Miami is the Minnesota of our generation. Sad really....

With that recruiting base? Ha, I don't think so.

(11-23-2013 11:33 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(11-23-2013 02:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Isn't this more of an ACC thread than a "College Sports and Conference Realignment" thread?

Hardly anything on this board has to do with Realignment and if it does it's usually trolling.

I have always seen this as a catch-all board. Everybody talking about everything college sports especially when there is no realignment going on.

(11-24-2013 01:11 PM)bearcatfan Wrote:  Didn't see the game but according to the box score the attendance was 44,372.

Announced attendance is often times nowhere near the actual people that are there. There's no way there was more than 15,000 people there.

(11-24-2013 01:11 PM)bearcatfan Wrote:  Didn't see the game but according to the box score the attendance was 44,372.

Seriously, there wasn't more than 5,000 in the stands, at any point of the game.

(11-23-2013 06:24 PM)esayem Wrote:  

(11-23-2013 05:54 PM)LSUtah Wrote:  The "U" glory days are over and may never return. Miami is the Minnesota of our generation. Sad really....

Doubt it. Too much talent down there. It is a small private school with a weird stadium situation. I'm not defending them, just considering the factors. Plus they took care of business regardless and that's what matters to me.

By that logic, Houston and SMU should be competing for national titles again in the near future.