The Miami Hurricanes Great Makeover

Last fall the University of Miami announced that they were embarking on a project to significantly improve the school’s athletic facilities. Among the upgrades is an indoor practice facility.

The 81,800-square-foot-facility will be the center piece of an ever important bold declaration. This will show the rest of the country that Miami is serious about their athletic facilities.

The project includes a 20,000-square-foot football operations center which will have a mezzanine level to accommodate coaches’ offices, meeting rooms, lounges and a state-of-the-art video center.

"“Today we take yet another step forward in continuing our mission of Building Champions at the University of Miami,” Director of Athletics Blake James said. “The generosity of Carol Soffer’s children and others enables us to build on of the finest football facilities in the nation, which will serve the needs of out football program and all our student-athletes for years to come.”"

This project simultaneously extends and interconnects the weight room. Miami has often been publicly and nationally criticized for using the same weight room from the Jimmy Johnson era. Well maybe not that old.

This added benefit from intuitive design will allow the Hurricanes to conduct practices with function and flair. The dreaded harpy-like lightning siren canceling coveted and precious practice time will be a thing of the past. The South Florida afternoon monsoon has been bested. Practice will go on.

Facility Spotlight: Indoor Practice Facility

The Hurricanes will also add new student housing as part of the upgrade. State of the art dorms are an important recruiting tool as more schools upgrade all of their facilities and go high tech and high end for a college dormitory.