The Demise of the Orange Bowl?

[BullGrad95]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/11/30/orange.bowl.ap/index.html

MIAMI (AP) -- City officials are considering plans to replace the 68-year-old Orange Bowl with a new stadium on the same site, which could force the Miami Hurricanes to play in Dolphins Stadium for at least a couple of seasons, city manager Joe Arriola said Wednesday.

"We're looking at all our options," Arriola said. "We might tear it down and build a new Orange Bowl."

No decisions have been made, Arriola said. The Hurricanes will play in the Orange Bowl next season, he said, but might need to relocate 10 miles north to Dolphins Stadium for the 2007-08 seasons.

A Miami Dolphins official said that was news to him.

"We apologize, but we don't have any knowledge of this, and so we'll refrain from making any comment," said Joe Bailey, chief executive officer of Dolphins Enterprises.

University officials said the school has a meeting scheduled next week with the city to discuss the situation. The Hurricanes have played in the Orange Bowl, owned by the city, since it opened in 1937.

"This is about possibly making the facility strong enough to go another 30 years, whether that's rehabilitating it or build a new facility," Paul Dee, the university's athletic director, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

City officials have already raised $80 million for the project through bonds and the sale of the Miami Arena, Dee said.

Arriola said city workers will examine the Orange Bowl to determine the extent of structural damage from Hurricane Wilma on Oct. 24. The city may decide on renovations while keeping the existing frame, or the entire stadium might be torn down and replaced if structural problems are discovered, Arriola said.

Wilma damaged the light banks, a chain-link fence and a radio tower at the Orange Bowl. But the 72,319-seat stadium was declared structurally fit, and the Hurricanes played three games there after the storm.

[smazza]

it mirrors demise of the state of florida as a football power

miami should have never left big east

[DawgPound]

They were losing money in the Big East.  The ACC is better geographically.

[TyBull]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/11/30/orange.bowl.ap/index.html

MIAMI (AP) -- City officials are considering plans to replace the 68-year-old Orange Bowl with a new stadium on the same site, which could force the Miami Hurricanes to play in Dolphins Stadium for at least a couple of seasons, city manager Joe Arriola said Wednesday.

"We're looking at all our options," Arriola said. "We might tear it down and build a new Orange Bowl."

No decisions have been made, Arriola said. The Hurricanes will play in the Orange Bowl next season, he said, but might need to relocate 10 miles north to Dolphins Stadium for the 2007-08 seasons.

A Miami Dolphins official said that was news to him.

"We apologize, but we don't have any knowledge of this, and so we'll refrain from making any comment," said Joe Bailey, chief executive officer of Dolphins Enterprises.

University officials said the school has a meeting scheduled next week with the city to discuss the situation. The Hurricanes have played in the Orange Bowl, owned by the city, since it opened in 1937.

"This is about possibly making the facility strong enough to go another 30 years, whether that's rehabilitating it or build a new facility," Paul Dee, the university's athletic director, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

City officials have already raised $80 million for the project through bonds and the sale of the Miami Arena, Dee said.

Arriola said city workers will examine the Orange Bowl to determine the extent of structural damage from Hurricane Wilma on Oct. 24. The city may decide on renovations while keeping the existing frame, or the entire stadium might be torn down and replaced if structural problems are discovered, Arriola said.

Wilma damaged the light banks, a chain-link fence and a radio tower at the Orange Bowl. But the 72,319-seat stadium was declared structurally fit, and the Hurricanes played three games there after the storm.

The Orange Bowl is a "LOO"... It is time to flush it!

[flsportsfan83]

The OB is one of the best places to watch a big time College Football Game.

[DawgPound]

The Orange Bowl is a dump.  It makes the Citrus Bowl look nice.

It is NOT a nice place for anything.

[USFMikeB]

Ditto.  Only a Cane fan would think the OB is anything but a dump.

[DawgPound]

And it's not a nice place for a Canes game.  It doesn't even sell out.

[ucfknights04]

DP - just an honest series of questions....

1) Did Miami lose money in the BE...

2) If so, How can USF not lose money in the BE

3) If they would, knowing all major sports decisions are business decisions, why would they have joined?

- I'm just posing these questions because I don't believe Miami could have been losing money in the Big East.  The biggest reason I have read (mostly on internet message boards) for this is the travel money...but if half the WAC teams (like Boise) can afford to be in the WAC on a WAC paycheck...why couldn't Miami?  

Maybe everyone means to say "Miami is losing money compared to what they would make in the ACC"

That is possible!  I really don't know.

[smazza]

i agree ucf04

i dont believe miami was losing money in big east