There definitely is something about having an on-campus stadium. U of Minnesota built one even when the NFL stadium they wre playing in was only a couple miles from campus.

(12-23-2016 05:57 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  There definitely is something about having an on-campus stadium. U of Minnesota built one even when the NFL stadium they wre playing in was only a couple miles from campus.

The stadium's cost totals $288.5 million, of which the university will pay 52% and the state of Minnesota the remaining 48%.

The University has been charging all U of M students a mandatory stadium fee of $12.50 every semester since planning for the project began, and is continuing this fee despite the stadium being finished. The cost of the stadium was $288.5 million of which the university had to pay 52%, and with an average of more than 50,000 students in a given year, in one semester the university makes more than $625,000 from the stadium fee, meaning they receive more than $12.5 million every 10 years from students.
-- wiki

MUST BE NICE

(12-23-2016 05:35 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 05:12 PM)green Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 04:58 PM)panama Wrote:  Yep and as soon as the Richt love affair cools they will be back to 20k in the stands.

greater Miami is a sophisticated metropolis that appreciates the business of sport: winning ...
U win, we show ...
U don't, we won't ...
it's not terribly complicated ...
there's too much competition here for the entertainment dollar to blend in with the crowd ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Interesting shtick you have going there.

Fact remains most Hurricane fans live nowhere near whatever they are calling the stadium today in Miami-Dade FIFY.

The Miami metropolitan area includes Miami and nearby communities. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget designates the area as the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) used for statistical purposes by the United States Census Bureau and other entities. The OMB defines the MSA as comprising Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties—Florida's three most populous counties—with principal cities including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Boca Raton.

With 6,012,331 inhabitants as of 2015, the Miami metropolitan area is the most populous in Florida and second largest in the Southeastern United States behind Greater Washington and the eighth-most populous in the United States.
-- wiki

HardRock stadium sits smack dab in the middle of 3 populous counties ...

STATE OF MIAMI

(12-23-2016 05:35 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 05:12 PM)green Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 04:58 PM)panama Wrote:  Yep and as soon as the Richt love affair cools they will be back to 20k in the stands.

greater Miami is a sophisticated metropolis that appreciates the business of sport: winning ...
U win, we show ...
U don't, we won't ...
it's not terribly complicated ...
there's too much competition here for the entertainment dollar to blend in with the crowd ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Interesting shtick you have going there.

U win we show, is true but youre not going to fill that stadium even when they win. After all Broward belongs to UF. Its a different demographic.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/....html?_r=0

the United States according to college football fans.

Unlike professional sports, the college game is much more provincial, with scrappy regional programs dominating their corners of the country.
-- nytimes

talkin' out your ass ...
saying so doesn't make it so ...
you see ...
miles of bad road separate U & the nearest competitor ...
geographic isolation is our friend ...

ONLY GAME IN TOWN

(12-23-2016 05:35 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 05:12 PM)green Wrote:  

(12-23-2016 04:58 PM)panama Wrote:  Yep and as soon as the Richt love affair cools they will be back to 20k in the stands.

greater Miami is a sophisticated metropolis that appreciates the business of sport: winning ...
U win, we show ...
U don't, we won't ...
it's not terribly complicated ...
there's too much competition here for the entertainment dollar to blend in with the crowd ...

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Interesting shtick you have going there.

an NFL stadium.

http://hardrockstadium.com/

$500 million renovation
-- Dolphins President and CEO Tom Garfinkel

that underwent a 1/2 billion dollar renovation ...
steel-framed canopy ...
humongous video boards ...
restaurants, lounges, bars galore ...

GIVEN FREE REIN

(12-24-2016 10:30 AM)green Wrote:  MUST BE NICE

If Miami couldn't afford a nice on-campus stadium, you could always go the cheap route like C Florida.

(12-24-2016 12:31 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(12-24-2016 10:30 AM)green Wrote:  MUST BE NICE

If Miami couldn't afford a nice on-campus stadium, you could always go the cheap route like C Florida.

we're the University of Miami ...
a breed apart ...

SURELY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS