Miami hits the road for their final 2024 game on Saturday, November 30th. The Canes travel to Syracuse, New York to take on the Syracuse University Orange.
The game will be the most important game for the Canes in twenty-years. Miami (10-1m 6-1 ACC) must beat Syracuse to earned a place in the ACC Championship game on December 7th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The CaneReports continues its stadium tour series featuring the story of the stadiums where the Canes travel to compete.
Miami will be playing in a dome stadium, JMA Wireless Dome, for the first time this season. It’s a unique environment.
JMA Wireless Dome
[excerpts from Wikimedia]
The JMA Wireless Dome, originally the Carrier Dome (1980–2022) and colloquially called "The Dome," or more recently "The JMA Dome," is a domed stadium in Syracuse, located on the campus of Syracuse University.
The dome opened in 1980 and currently has a capacity of 42,784.
Toward the end of the 1970s, Syracuse University was under pressure to improve its football facilities in order to remain a Division I-A football school. Its on-campus stadium, Archbold Stadium, opened in 1907 and had not aged well. The stadium could not be expanded; earlier in the decade it had been reduced from 40,000 seats to 26,000 due to stricter enforcement of fire codes. Therefore, the university decided to build a new stadium on the site of Archbold, which, appropriately for the region's often cold weather, was to have a domed Teflon-coated, fiberglass inflatable roof.
When it opened in September 1980, it was made clear just how loud it was inside; that night the new stadium's nickname, "the Loud House", was coined.] The original inflatable roof, since replaced by a fixed roof, caused the sound to echo many times, multiplying the loudness inside.
The Dome has been upgraded several times throughout the past 25 years. The inflatable roof was replaced in 1999 at a cost of $14 million. In May 2018, the university announced a major renovation to the Carrier Dome as the central portion of a larger campus update. The renovation, estimated to cost $118 million, was expected to be completed in 2022. The most significant changes are the replacement of the original air-supported roof with a fixed roof, two-thirds of which is translucent, along with the installation of air conditioning.
In December, 2022 the university announced the next phase of its work towards an enhanced stadium experience. This included an upgrade of the entire digital infrastructure, including latest 5G technology and wireless connectivity, a complete replacement of benches with individual seats; and the construction of a new publicly accessible event facility adjacent to the Dome. This phase two work began in spring 2023 and was completed ahead of the 2024 football season.
Today, the Dome hosts football, basketball and lacrosse games for the Orange in addition to grad research projects, concerts, boxing matches, marching band competitions, and hockey games. The venue has become an intricate part of the university.
The Orange will be loud and proud on Saturday. Bring your earplugs!
GO CANES!
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