Miami Hurricanes Football - Facilities

Facilities

Main articles: Sun Life Stadium and Miami Orange Bowl

Miami plays its home games at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, located approximately 21 mi (34 km) north of the university's main Coral Gables campus. The stadium also serves as home to the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and, through 2011, Major League Baseball's Florida Marlins. From 1937 through 2007, the team played its home games at the Orange Bowl, located in the Little Havana section of Miami. In the late 2000s, the City of Miami, the owner of the Orange Bowl, proposed to extensively renovate it. However, those plans fell by the wayside as the city focused on keeping the Marlins baseball team in town, forcing the university to threaten a move to Dolphin Stadium if a plan to renovate the stadium was not in place within 45 days. When the city could not deliver on a renovation plan, the University's Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of UM President Donna Shalala, approved the shift to Dolphin Stadium on August 21, 2007.

At its inception, the program played at Tamiami Park and, later, Moore Park before moving to the then Burdine Stadium in 1937.

The team practices on-campus at the Greentree Practice Fields, which were named the College Football Field of the Year by the SportsTurf Managers Association in 2007. The Hecht Athletic Center, also located on-campus, serves as the program's training facility and is home to the football offices.

The 2006 NFC Champion Chicago Bears used the football team's training facilities while preparing for Super Bowl XLI. The other team, AFC Champion Indianapolis Colts, used the Miami Dolphins Training Facility at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.