Hopefully Ande is being tight lipped or doesnt know anything
Pray that this does not become “The Yager Continuum.”
The update Nick.
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The September 16, 2025 board meeting didn’t shine additional light on the pressing questions we all have. Here are the relevant NOTES found on page 62 of 114. This is the “in planning” section of “status of capital projects report”. One change is the last BOT minutes (June 2025) suggested that the conceptual design stage would be completed in OCTOBER 2025. The most recent BOT notes suggest that has been pushed to DECEMBER 2025.
So, the outstanding tasks are:
(1) Update by the Site Selection Committee
(2) SLAM Collaborative’s conceptual design expected December 2025
(3) Update on firms providing “design-build” services should be completed and we are awaiting the decision.
NEXT BOT MEETING: DECEMBER 11-12
Clearly this BOT needs a stern talking to by Mr. Significant!
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This is part of the problem with “academia.” There is no sense of urgency, no deadlines that stick, no accountability. There is a general feeling of malaise sweeping through the BOT…..wait until the next meeting…oh, why not wait until next year.
It’s the Yager Syndrome all over again.
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I have to wonder if all the private money is in fact not there yet.
It’s almost like they take and embrace the worst parts of government
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I’ve heard it’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Some major money would like to see formalized plans voted and agreed to by the BOT before officially pledging the money, while the BOT would like to see money officially pledged to the project before voting and finalizing.
I’m not sure what will give. Or if this is even the most accurate information on the current stalemate.
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Shocking. A survey that was biased against the cook field site finds that they shouldn’t build the arena on cook field
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Just a terrible survey. I really hope decision makers don’t take it into account. Athletics was the second lowest priority of those surveyed. They clearly surveyed people who already were against the arena plans
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I wonder if this was the survey:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Realmiamiskins9099/posts/25013081411652056/
It was yes, the names listed on the contact for that are in the “team” section for the website with results
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The way this project is being handled is one giant clusterfuck! We have a discussion about the site. There is an analysis of the preferences of various groups on and off campus. It was decided that the Cook Field site is the preferred location as it has the land available for the arena, a hotel, another building for other uses, and probably further addition of other facilities on the site. There was a drawing of the proposed arena. All that was months ago.
Now, here we are. Upside down again. The donors should have little to no input on location. This project, located at Cook Field, will provide many advantages. There will be no hotel on campus I don’t believe due to limited space. However, no need to argue all the pros and cons–again.
This is ludicrous! Make a damn decision and get it going! Please!
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Can you break down your criticism in more detail for me? Is there something inherently skewed about the survey population?
Because I’ve got to say that this “list of priorities/rank three” question seems fairly neutral to me, and I’d pick at least six of the others ahead of athletic programs and facilities. And, mind you, I’m a guy sports-addled enough to have helped start the predecessor of this little website 28 years ago.
I took the survey and I felt the questions were slanting so much so that I posted that in the final comments. I am biased towards sports for sure but both my kids went to Miami too so I dont want to lose green space either. Also I am on record that a new arena sounds nice if donors are paying for it but that same money in an NIL fund would bring more wins. It was a few months ago but I certainly felt like it was a “leading the witness survey”
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The questions were biased to start off. They all hinted towards cook field being important and sports less so. Also the priorities question isn’t biased but I posted it because the results shows that the survey was clearly given to people who were predisposed to being against the arena. I guarantee you if you got a more broad sample more people would respond saying sports is important. “Campus sustainability” and “Robust humanities/creative arts” were all much higher priorities for people answering the survey, clearly a bad representation of the true Miami student/alumni demographics. There’s a clear “response bias” (thank you stats class) where people who are opposed to the arena are much more likely to respond to the survey than people who support it
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One more thing. The poll actually proves the NEED for the cook field site being used for the arena. The point of building an arena on that site rather than renovate millet is so that it’s closer to student life and utilized more. The point is to grow Miami athletics that, as proven by the poll (and many discussions on this forum), has an attendance problem
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