http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/10/11/6962393/miami-hurricanes-footb...
Check out the pictures and the video of people playing catch in the stands. Why would any recruit want to go play there?
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One reason, and one reason only...
And they too get to play big games in Lane, often at night.
Oh, when you say "ton", you mean 2000 lbs of people... about a dozen normal sized adults
Exactly
the stadium being so far from campus is such a terrible idea
Seems like this has become an annual post here
Blah blah blah UVA spring game...many laughs...ok we're done here.
the stadium is too big for University of Miami. hopefully the Dodphins can fill it up on sundays.
I think an outhouse may be too big for Da U
A boat. A nice party barge would suffice.
This is too large for DA U
"What is this, a stadium for ants??"
It's only a model.
They didn't. Packers fans did though.
He's not lying.
There were 10 people averaging 200 lb each.
#goacc
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I flipped it on TV, it was pathetic how empty that place was.
Miami really puts the U in Unattended
They really put the "U" in "empty" - it's not there either.
Also, apparently someone paid for a "Fire Al Golden" banner to be flown over the stadium today. Da U is definitely back.
Recruits LOVE to see that.
The U is quickly becoming the Oakland Raiders of college football in terms of head coaches: hire one for a couple years, fire him to gain some support back, and then play average for those couple years. Repeat.
Everyone wants to point the finger at the head coach. Maybe, just maybe, the top recruits in the state of Florida would rather take their talents to Tallahassee or Gainesville instead of South Beach??? I mean, who wouldn't want to play on a baseball field in front of barely 1000 people when you could play for the reigning national champs or the SEC?!
There were more people at my school's football game today, and there are ONLY 6500 Seats... How do people ever expect Miami to ever get back to semi-nationally relevancy with that pathetic support? They have no money coming in and recruits could play in front of more people at a lower tier FCS school!
They can't get back to national relevance because the university administration is unwilling to be as corrupt as they were back in the 80's-90's. They can't funnel money to the players covertly any more because all their current boosters are too eager to publicize their own actions. The key advantage that they once held in recruiting - owning the lower half of Florida - is gone forever. Now HS guys from Florida go all across the nation, and don't stay in south Florida like they once did. Layer that all on top of the fact the university is having problems getting donor money just for the academic side, and you've got a handful of very strong reasons they'll never be what they once were.
FTR, even in the 90's, they often played to half empty stadiums. They only drew a full stadium if the opponent were high profile. Their fans have always been that way. This seems to take it to another level, though.
Anyone know UM's official recruiting twitter handle?
Seems like they would be a better fit for a Wallace Wade stadium than Duke, track and everything!
There might be even LESS people at the Dolphins game today if that is even possible.
and Miami isn't even basketball town any longer!
Well, at least they still have Jai alai!
Al Golden is probably in Stage 3 Coach watch at Miami.
Stage one: Insane scandal that gets swept under the rug
Stage two: Not being very good at football
Stage three: Articles like this start showing up
Stage four: Another insane scandal
Stage five: Still not good at football
Stage six: Canned
Stage seven: New coach hired, 'Canes are Back!!1!!1'
Stage eight: Return to stage one
Really, when you think about it, since joining the ACC, Miami has been nothing more than yet another clone of - GT, UMd, UNC, NC State, all teams that you could pencil in to 'battle' for their similar positions at a record somewhere between 6-6 and 8-4, with a once a decade 9-3 thrown in for hope's sake.
All the posturing and maneuvering that shook up the ACC/Big East landscape, all the fret over making sure the ACCCG was located in the state of Florida so F$U and Miami fans wouldn't have to drive too far, all the cross divisional scheduling. All a waste of time chasing a dream that was already dead.
I find Dan Le Batard to be obnoxius, but he is correct when he currently says that Miami is nothing more than a regional player in college football, that only F$U and UofFlorida are the national players in the state.
Honestly, Miami is in very serious danger of completely falling off the college football map. Yes, they had dominant teams in the 80s and 90s, but we're a couple years away (2018 recruiting class) from a recruiting class that hasn't been alive since Miami got to a National Championship Game, who has never seen the U even contend in a BCS game. They are in very serious danger of becoming an also-ran to the people who matter... the recruits.
If they fire Golden right now (which I think would be a mistake) they have to get the next hire right, or they're absolutely screwed long-term. They'll be a team thats been irrelevant throughout the lives of the players they're trying to recruit, playing in front of 3/4 empty stadiums filled with fans that demand people's heads to fly at the first sign of failure. They're a small school with shallow pockets playing in a region they no longer can rely on as a pipeline for the best talent because of how recruiting has gone national over the past 15 years. They are closer to becoming an annual whipping post for the conference, the likes that Wake Forest and Duke had become, than they are to being back to their glory days, and they keep sliding down that path. Eventually, they'll be too far down that they won't be able to climb back out.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Duke was even able to climb out, and Wake even had a few years of success (including one conference title). They may be on their way out, but they won't be the annual patsy forever, even if they do drop that low.
It took Duke 20 years to climb from the hellhole they were stuck in, and even with that said, they're still very precariously up on a plateau right now. And Wake had a 3 year hiatus from being awful and are right back where they were before Grobe came in, which is what will happen to Duke the second Cutcliffe's magic wears off.
With the resources Miami has, the fanbase that has long since moved on to something else, the emergence of other universities in the state with deeper pockets, and the fact they're playing in a division where they have to travel more than anyone else, if they continue down this path, they'll get to a point where they will be a forgotten team, nationally. I mean heck, at this point, they haven't played a single game that legitimately had a title of any sort on the line in a decade, and their financial issues are only going to compound itself over the long haul.
I don't disagree with what you posted, but all of that was true a decade ago. Their time is already past. That will not change. They have no window of opportunity closing on them. That beeyatch has been bricked up already. They will not come back. They have no hope. They will not reverse course and turn back the hands of the clock. They are done. Pencil them in for 7-5 to 9-3 regular season for the next decade. And few of the 9-3's will appear...
Cincinnati Enquirer listed official attendance at around 43,000. What is worse, they sold 43,000 tix and 3,000 people show, or they only sold 5,000 tix and 3,000 people show?
That's worthy of discussion. Perhaps Miami has a strong corporate donor system. It really would be interesting to discover the reality.
This is so embarrassing...
I can only HOPE that Al Golden had some recruits on visits for this game. I can't help but think that no one could go to this game and then want to commit to The U after seeing 3000 fans at a game...
Its even worse than it appears...here is a close up of the stands if you zoom in...
Just like The Patriot when the Americans caught the Redcoats
It's like they hired a bunch of Japanese tourists to fill in the gaps.
Cane fan I work with: "I think it's time they fired Golden" (this is the day after the Duke win btw)
Me: "Yeah? He's been doing pretty alright, they won 9 games last year."
Cane: "Yeah but 'doing pretty alright' and 9 wins isn't what we're looking for at the U"
Me: "Miami just doesn't have those deep pockets"
Cane: "Yeah but now that Shalala is gone. . ."
Me: "We'll see"
deep pockets? they don't have a dang stadium! losing the Orange Bowel was a huge hit IMO.
That does sound painful...
That was intentional, that place was a sh*thole falling apart toward the end.
Well done.
Speaking of maps…the Orange Bowl helped put the U on the map; now they aren't there either.