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Would be funny if they start this and then Cristobal doesn't last long enough for the stadium to be completed.
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Would be funny if they start this and then Cristobal doesn't last long enough for the stadium to be completed.
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Sam "Ace" Rothstein
They can't all be winners!
I just think the move from Big12 to SEC will be difficult, but that's not the fault of Venables.
Oklahoma has been fortunate with Stoops and Riley... I can't imagine they'll have much patience as Venables tries to take the current (and incoming) roster and shift from an offensive-focused team to a defensive-focused one. I know he brought in the dude from Ole Miss for OC, so maybe I have the wrong read. I just have a bad feeling about it. Venables seems like a DC and not a head coach to me... But I am admittedly narrow-minded and probably ill-informed.
They might spend a quarter of that to buy a 35-acre site in Coral Gables, with no parking, that hasn't been assembled and isn't currently available. The leftover $225 million is a good start on a new stadium though.
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LOL stop.
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Who exactly is "Miami"? Is it the school prez making the hires? The board of directors? A rich booster? I'm not saying that Cristobal is a bad hire - just curious who the non-AD person/people are that decided to go ahead and make an athletic department decision instead of having an AD make it. I assume it is the same person/people that are in charge of hiring the AD. And I assume they felt so sure that Cristobal is the right guy for the job, and that time was of the essence, that they just had to move on that decision ASAP. But the whole thing just seems weird to me. Whoever the new AD ends up being, they are going to realize that they are not totally in charge of the football program.
And let's not forget that Cristobal was terrible at FIU and got fired. Now maybe he learned during his Alabama tenure. And/or maybe FIU is just a bad spot where no coach is going to win. But it seems awfully similar to FAU, where Lane Kiffin was quickly able to win big.
Also read cristobal’s contract is $80m.
Because this is Miami, I’m confident all of this will become a very entertaining disaster at some point in the next 24 months.
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Miami is all the people who normally make these decisions including the people who already hired the AD.
He’s targeting a site a mile or two from campus where a high school is currently and I guess the plan is to relocate the high school then build the stadium on the site which sounds like 8 additional layers of red tape to cut through, but he is worth over $20B so maybe he does have that kinda money and power.
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Broyles award winner, record setting offense at LSU, had numerous OC offers before he picked the panthers. Its not like he was working with the best in Carolina with Darnold, Bridgewater and Newton. Give him Oregon's resources and skill players and he would seem to be set up for success.
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hide their keys
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So which HC is hiring him as their OC at Oregon?
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Edit: He’s like their donaldross
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Gulliver Prep Upper Campus? It doesn’t seem like enough space for a stadium. The school stadium takes up most of the space.
There are some public schools nearby but I highly doubt that would happen.
Interesting fact. Miami’s Coral Gables campus is 239 acres. Wake’s campus is 340 acres.
Gulliver Prep Upper Campus? It doesn’t seem like enough space for a stadium. The school stadium takes up most of the space.
There are some public schools nearby but I highly doubt that would happen.
Interesting fact. Miami’s Coral Gables campus is 239 acres. Wake’s campus is 340 acres.
That site is 11 acres; 17 if you get the church there to the west. By comparison, BofA is on 32 acres and has virtually no parking.
Groves Stadium/Truist Field takes up about 13 acres by itself and it's the smallest stadium in the world I've heard. That does not include the baseball field and tennis center, which adds up to a total of about 40 acres. And that includes very little parking.
Gulliver Prep Upper Campus? It doesn’t seem like enough space for a stadium. The school stadium takes up most of the space.
There are some public schools nearby but I highly doubt that would happen.
Interesting fact. Miami’s Coral Gables campus is 239 acres. Wake’s campus is 340 acres.
Coral Gables High School is what I read. I assume that's public and that was the basis for the red tape comment. I have absolutely no idea how that would work or get passed through whatever city councils it would need to. The residents of Coral Gables are already highly resistant to a stadium being built there and this guy is proposing not only that but also relocating the high school. Where would he relocate the high school to? The problem with finding space for a high school is the same as finding space for a stadium. Maybe the HS is in some serious disrepair and he offers to build a new state of the art facility in a 6 or 7 story building on the Miami campus or otherwise small footprint location and their athletic teams get to use the athletic facilities at the University?
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Betting against the integrity of Miami local government officials is a pretty safe bet. Just put some bribes in the fundraising budget.
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Who is "he" you are talking about and where are you getting this info? The only person that is close to that wealth in Florida in a man named Thomas Peterffy and I don't see any Miami connection.
That is significantly more than Dave Tepper or Shad Khan, who own NFL franchises and are both in Florida. Jerry Jones and Stan Kroneke combined are at ~$20b. It's more than Steve Cohen who owns the Mets. About the same as Rupert Murdoch. Pretty much anyone that rich in the U.S. is a name.
There is no way there is an unnamed Miami booster worth north of $20b.