And then he says it could be used on lowering the cost of attendance. ITS ALREADY FREE FOR STUDENTS. And they’ve given away free tickets for games several times. Clearly that doesn’t do much to help attendance when the team isn’t so good. His arguments are just so full of shit
9 out of 10 think its a bad idea? Really? Really? I can’t get 90% of people to agree they are breathing air or are alive, 90% of people can’t agree if its day or night. 90% of people couldn’t agree that we are on earth right now
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I accidentally made a good point. Wells and Joyner are to be razed; Miami Inn, Swing, Thomson, Mary Lyon, all gone. There’s going to be more changes on campus … and the funny thing is, no one’s gonna miss them that much and may not even notice!
I remember going back to campus after about a 14 year break and seeing the new Farmer and Armstrong. When my Miami Student relative said they weren’t really “new’“, I had to change it to “This wasn’t here when I was here!” 
They made a survey that pretty much said, “do you want to build this disgusting sports arena on the beautiful amazing cook field” and 90% said no. (Not literally but it was insanely biased questioning)
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Here’s my take on the survey;
Over 65% of the respondents seem to fall into the category of “current or local” (students, faculty, staff and residents) while the alumni responses total less than17%
The alumni base is close to 10 times the “current or local” population
The survey was conducted by a team that appears to have 90% of its members that are current students or staff members.
Also I believe less than 20% said they thought athletics was an important part of Miami. So a biased pool to begin with
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Who is this guy? Wrong on so many points! Has he ever been to BB games? What survey is he citing? What does he know about construction/remodel costs? ETC. Small people like him without any vision forward have constantly hurt Miami over the years. Lets all communicate with President Crawford and the BOT stating our support for the new arena.
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Let’s do our own poll
- Cook field site
- Upgrade Millett
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voters
I was someone who originally really wanted to renovate/upgrade Millett. But once you learn about all of the known issues with doing so, and anyone with half a brain understands that the unknown could potentially increase costs by many millions more, it would have been the incorrect choice.
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He means lowering the cost of attending college I assume
I emailed them both
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I was not a fan of choosing Cook Field as the location and I stand by my opinion that there were several better options. Cook Field was a distant 3rd place with only 17% support when we did an MHT poll on potential locations ( New Miami Arena Rumor - #369 by Quinoaburger ).
With that said, the time for that argument has passed and Cook Field is the location. Doing nothing or renovating Millett are not viable options. We badly need a new arena and trying to block that because you preferred a different location is shortsighted and a big mistake for the university.
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Hell, no one who graduated after like 1990 knows where Miami Field used to be unless they have reason to care.
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Cook was always the most logical and convenient. Maybe its just me but what will they do to the millet site? just seems odd to slap a field onto it
I know that I am a minority, particularly on MHT, but I believe that a new arena should be built next to Millett Hall. The more centrally located the space the more essential the occupant of the space should be to the Universities’ core mission.
Furthermore, no other location will have 1000 parking spaces. Millett currently has that and when Millett is razed any new arena proximate to it will as well.
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He’s part of the urban planning/geography department. I had him for several classes since it was my major. He’s a nice guy, but definitely skews the direction of he’d rather build a bike path to College Corner than spend any money on a sports arena. I’m frankly surprised that he seems to be driving a skewed survey. That doesn’t match the professor I had.
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If you recall the arena was supposed to be a center piece for an event district with the hotel/conference center. The hotel company pulled out and no one has taken it’s place. Does that change the location decision?
Anyone saying we shouldn’t build it is flat wrong. The location is free to be debated.
We could always go back to the original proposed location on High st across from Lewis Place. Remember that?
I often wonder if that site was only floated to make Cook more palatable.
I believe there was a donor that wanted to build something as close to uptown as possible. For a hot minute there was talk of building something between the train tracks and College Ave.
That would also take away green space. Where would the squirrels and deer go?!