This would be privately funded. No idea how it could make business sense but certainly not based on scUM football. Concerts and monster trucks, maybe. Dunno much about SEFL. Maybe
@soflagator or @GGG will enlighten us on that market.
First of all, if you want to @ me to request a comment, you have to use my government name,
@G. Gordon Gator, not the informal GGG by which I am known to my fans.
The real bizarre thing about scUM trying to get their own stadium is that they and the City couldn't work together with David Beckham's Major League Soccer franchise to build a dual-use stadium that would serve both the Canes and the soccer team, Inter Miami, which currently plays its games up in Fort Lauderdale due to the lack of a Miami stadium.
Beckham has a deal in place with the City to build an MLS soccer stadium with about 35k seats on a City-owned site that's not too far west of the downtown area. Currently it's the site of a somewhat crappy old public golf course.
That size of a stadium would be fine for most UM games; for the FSU game they could still play at the Hard Rock like they do now. There was consideration of making it dual use to accommodate the Canes, but at some point Beckham's group nixed the idea. If they gave an explanation for why, I must've missed it.
I do not know why they are now proposing to build a new stadium for only the Canes, and don't see the utility of it beyond that purpose. Anything larger than 40k seats will be difficult to sell out for most UM games. So if I'm not mistaken they are talking about building a stadium roughly the size of this one, across town on the campus of FIU...
...which by the way hosted this OT thriller last night, with FIU's coach making a gutsy call to go for the two-point conversion and the win:
But meanwhile as far as I know the FIU stadium does not get much use outside of their games, if any. So I don't know why a UM stadium would be any different. Does not seem like a cost-effective move relative to the price of the land they'd have to acquire, since there's no room for it on campus.
Being a Miami resident it is difficult to do, but I try my best to avoid all news and information about scUM. Their fans never shut up about the lack of respect the program gets, but are too dumb to understand why it doesn't deserve any. It's the most overrated team and has the worst fanbase in all of college football, in my opinion. And that's despite counting a number of them among my closest friends lol