Miami spring game moved to UM campus. Here’s who can attend and gets priority
Another vestige of days long past has gone the way of modern college football.
The University of Miami’s April 13 spring game will be on campus at Cobb Stadium, thus limited in attendance because of the smaller venue and made available first to season-ticket holders who are Hurricane Club members, according to several sources.
Students will also be allowed to attend, based on availability.
The traditionally free and open spring game, designated as the final session of 15 football spring practices that begin Monday, showcases what’s on tap for the 2024 season.
In addition to the existing 500-capacity grandstand at Cobb Stadium, home of UM soccer and track, additional bleachers are expected to be set up for the spring game. Those who contribute to UM athletics, based on a tiered system, are members of the Hurricane Club.
Chase Stadium, formerly DRV PNK Stadium and the site of UM’s spring game the past two years, last year had a capacity of 19,100 and was about one-third full. The game has been held at various South Florida sites through the years, including occasionally on campus. UM’s football alumni will gather the night before the spring game for their annual dinner.
The TV/streaming information has not yet been announced, but every ACC spring game was streamed or televised last year.
The spring game is held like a real game (but shorter and with some variations). Fans across the nation view their respective spring games as festivals of sorts to celebrate their teams and get them pumped for the season, which opens for Miami on Aug. 31 against the Florida Gators at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville.
Except for the spring game, practice sessions for the most part are expected to be closed to the general public. But fans who attend the spring game will get a glimpse of three new UM quarterbacks, including recently arrived, nationally heralded Washington State transfer Cam Ward.
Other UM signal callers practicing for the first time this spring: freshman early enrollee Judd Anderson and Albany transfer Reese Poffenbarger. They will join redshirt sophomore quarterback Jacurri Brown.
The other quarterback is sophomore Emory Williams, but he is still rehabbing from a compound fracture of his left arm, sustained in November at Florida State. Williams is not expected to participate in spring practice.
