The Miami Hurricanes Great Makeover

The play-maker Michael Irvin joked that the dorms looked the same when he enrolled his son Michael Irvin Jr in 2016. That will soon change as the University of Miami submitted plans for a brilliant and plush 155 million dollar new living complex. The proposed complex has the ability to house 1100 undergrads including student athletes.

Twenty-three modern interconnected buildings will provide five levels of dorm-style living spaces for students. It will contain study lounges, outdoor recreational decks and roof gardens on the second level of the structures. Designed to provide a student centered living environment, the compound will encompass learning centers, a 200-seat auditorium, mini-movie room, bike shop and recreation room among other plush amenities.

The above description sounds like a calculated real estate pitch selling a time share but ultimately the dorms have been in need of an upgrade for a very long time. Recruits have murmured over the years that the dorms have a quaint prison feel.  The prison break begins when the construction crews break ground hopefully sometime in the near  future.

The upgrade is a long time coming. Dorms like the one that opened at the University of Kansas in the fall of 2015 are huge recruiting tools.