1) probably because that makes sense.
2) I can’t imagine either of the teams caring that much or that it’ll make any significant difference
3) Hard Rock Stadium has 2 NFL locker rooms
The NFL locker rooms aren't used by college teams historically. The away might be, but the the Dolphin's locker room is basically locked out from Miami ever being in it.
To be fair, it wouldn’t surprise me if hard rock had four locker rooms for this reason.
Phins
Canes
2 neutrals.
Presumably, in order to get access to one of the owned locker rooms the owner would have to consent to it. Miami can consent to using their own locker rooms, so it really wouldn’t surprise me if they are in their own.
I really doubt there’s a provision in this with regards to the game, and I imagine it’s up to the discretion of the stadium who by default will probably just be like “whatever”
I know for sure Heinz has 4 locker rooms (5 even there’s just an extra one normally the refs use I think) because it’s pretty frequent that both nfl and college are moving equipment in and out in overlapping time frames
“Kinda” cheap?! They’ve been in the NFL since the 30’s and they still had to go out and get a roommate. That’s just poor asset management right there, sad to see it
I've been on a tour of US Bank stadium, and the Vikings locker room is nice, but not super extravagant or anything. They don't even have permanent names on the lockers. Imagine like a mid-level nice golf course locker room. They're really only there once a week - their day to day work is at the practice facility (which IS really nice.)
In 1975, they were looking for affordability. It was college football, not the pros. And even the pros didn’t go all out on lockers rooms because, it’s a locker room. You’re changing and leaving. How nice does it really need to be?
These days, meaningless bells and whistles are recruiting tools and you have a significant media presence in locker rooms so the show has become more important.
I wonder if the super-fancy facilities will be one of the future casualties of NIL. Recruiting will still happen, of course, but I imagine the bells and whistles won't be as necessary when there's a price tag associated with the recruitment. I mean, I'm sure they'll still be nice, but probably not at the level they were pre-NIL.
It will still be a baseline requirement. If two schools offer you a million, might as well go to the nicer one. And with upgraded locker rooms also comes the upgraded weight rooms and training and practice facilities to improve.
Heck, the Saddledome in Calgary has separate rooms for the Flames, the AHL Wranglers, the WHL Hitmen, and the NLL Roughnecks, plus at least two for visiting teams.
FYI, you can take an official guided tour of Raymond James Stadium. I took my son for one in the summer. I think it was around $16 per person, plus I tipped the guide $10 because she was excellent. It was awesome. She took us through the guts of the stadium, USFs locker room, we peeked in the Bucs locker room but we're not allowed all the way in. Through the VIP bar area, up to the suites. Then the grand finale was going on the pirate ship for a photo op, and down onto the field to play around for 15 minutes or so. Naturally, we exited through the gift shop. Totally worth it! It was a terrific experience. My boy is a massive Bucs fan and he loved every second of it. Strong recommend.
The Cincinnati Reds do this too and it’s incredible. Start in their HOF Museum then a top to bottom tour of the stadium including the dugouts. You can go in the Reds locker room if they’re on a road trip.
Gonna second this. Did it this August, awesome tour. Before that, I didn't even know you could do tours of Pro venues. Also highly recommend the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Best Museum in the country.
Were you allowed on the field at Raymond James? The Lambeau Field tour takes you onto the field level through the Packer's tunnel, but no one is allowed to step onto the grass of the field.
Absolutely! We went onto the field. Took pics on the 50. Played around. I timed my son on a 40 yard dash. I framed up some pictures to look like a close up of him taking a snap from under center. We did all the corny hamming it up father son / stuff you can imagine. A big high five on the sideline like we won the Superbowl. A fake huddle breakdown. We made the most of the opportunity. It was a lot of fun. We ASKED if we could fire the cannon on the pirate ship. We were denied, but pro tip, you CAN ring the bell on the pirate ship!
This was shortly after a Metallica concert at Raymond James, so I wouldn't say the field was in great shape, but there were Buccaneers & 50th anniversary logos painted on the field. You could see the lines and hashmarks.
When I was in college, I was working for my college's baseball team when we advanced to the D2 college world series in Cary, N.C. We took a tour of the Durham Bulls facility, and they took us in the clubhouse, and on the way in, there's this little section of narrow hallway between the entrance and when you actually get in the square of the clubhouse, and Wil Myers was leaving at the same time we were going out and I bumped in to him.
That's my only professional facility tour experience. Nothing else to add.
Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle has NBA locker rooms that are currently unused, they’re just waiting for us to get an NBA team. There are two other active sets of locker rooms used by the NHL and WNBA
I know at the Benz Stadium that Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United have separate locker rooms. Even when Georgia State used to play at the Georgia Dome, it was separate as well.
Not sure where you're getting your info from but there are 12 locker rooms at Crypto.com Arena.
When all 4 shared the arena, the Clippers, Lakers, Kings, and Sparks all had dedicated permanent home locker rooms. The Clippers locker room was converted during the renovations they did to all locker room facilities at the arena this past year.
It probably doesn't exist, not in the same way at least. They demolished and rebuilt most of the lower bowl after the Marlins left to bring the seats closer to the field.
Something I’ll add that never really gets brought up, I had a friend who worked for the Rockets and he gave me a personal tour of Toyota Center…like we were one of 4 people in the building and then watched the game from their film room, personal tour. We could take pictures of everything but when we got to their locker room, we couldn’t because it was the players space and it was private.
Which isn’t to say those pictures don’t exist or blah blah. But the players keep personal items, get their mail sent to the stadium, and a bunch of stuff. It’s not so simple as “clean out the locker after every game”. For the Texans, their gameday locker is also their practice field locker room. Idk how the Dolphins are but even with the season over, their gameday lockers probably have a bunch of their shit in it so it’s easier to just put teams in a neutral locker regardless.
it was well known that when the Giants and Jets played at Giants stadium the Giants had to dress in the guest locker room because they were technically the away team
I used to work for an NFL team that would host soccer games and the occasional big name concert, that teams stadium had five locker rooms iirc— football home, football away, soccer 1, soccer 2, artist locker room. I’d imagine a shared CFB/NFL stadium has at least that if not +2 more
When they host the Orange Bowl for example, does a team actually use the UM locker room? Or are both teams just using away locker rooms? My experience with both pro and college hockey programs has been that their locker rooms are never used by anyone else. Any other teams using the facility simply use the away or neutral locker rooms.
I haven’t been in either facility but I would bet Miami has better practice facilities than the Dolphins have. Having top of the line luxury facilities was a huge deal for recruiting before NIL changed everything. The NFL owners on the other hand never really gave a shit. Most of the time they draft or trade for you and own your ass. And if a free agent is deciding between two teams it’s usually about the money. The college facilities are probably also larger and better suited to handling a larger roster since they have a lot more players than an NFL team does. And in this case it would probably be a benefit for the Big 10 team to take Miami’s facilities to remove some of Miami’s home field advantage by removing them from their comfort zone.
At the Bank of America Stadium, the Carolina Panthers players have 24 hr access to the locker room and team facilities. They are encouraged to come work out and study film. They don’t clear out their locker after a game. I’d be floored if that isn’t the case with every NFL team.
The Dolphins aren’t giving up their locker room to a college team.
I’ve coached a couple of high school games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, and it has 5-6 different locker rooms. The Cowboys have their own, which only they use, and then there are 4-5 others for events like the high school state championships. They have 3 games per day during that week. Having at least 4 locker rooms is the only way to make that efficient.
Given how many events this stadium holds, it's more likely 3 to 5 main locker rooms and the same amount of space in flex rooms.
For context the Linc a less busy building has Eagles, Temple, away and then a bunch of smaller ones that can converted into various sizes for that event. Basically a 1/3 to a 1/4 of the service level is locker room space.
I figure they’ll have to use the away locker. They will be the lower seed. Has nothing to do with respect or lack of respect It’s just how it works, right?
Hey. I work at an NFL stadium. The home NFL team(s) can say whether or not they will allow their locker rooms to be used. In the event they do not allow it, there are other alternative locker rooms that can be assigned to incoming teams as needed. There's no "have to" etc...
Yeah, I was gonna say, it has to be later than '84 because that's when Oklahoma's dumbass wagon got stuck on the field and they were penalized 15 yards for it. Dopes.
Miami and Oklahoma hated each other in the 80s. Oklahoma won the Natty in '85, their only loss was against Miami. In '86 their only loss was against Miami, who lost the Natty to Penn State. In '87 they went undefeated until the Orange Bowl, where they lost to Miami. Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson did not like each other to put it mildly. Making Miami use the opposing locker room definitely sounds like some shit they would do.
I can say with complete confidence that we are ok with that if it happens. Better to have a seat in one of the locker rooms than in one of the stadium seats.
From this article about 6 years ago:
"The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room. Those will be decorated for the Orange Bowl and need to be fully redone for Dolphins-Bills."
is it their own stadium? like do they have a kitted out contracted/branded locker room? is so, then they would use their own locker room. My guess is Dolphins would not allow either team to use their locker room.
these stadiums are hosting huge events outside of football, including the world cup, MLS teams. I'm sure the staff can remove and redo locker rooms to a purpose in short order. Same way basketball courts can be hockey arenas the next day.
“The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room.”
For the sake of having “home field advantage”, I hope so. Not in a F the U kind of way. But schools purposely make visitor locker rooms a lot crappier for visitors. So if I’m a coach with home-field advantage, I would want the home locker room.
NFL away locker rooms are actually not as nice as the home locker rooms. There is more going in and out every week. Things get beat up more and generally are very basic and utilitarian. A home locker room is always nicer because the home team will have less traffic and will film promos give tours etc. the only exception would be met life and SoFi.
Having been in multiple locker rooms at Miami’s stadium I don’t know how many there are but I do know there’s more than one very nice locker room. We got to use them when I was in the marching band a couple times.
Quite a few stadiums received an F on visiting locker rooms, including sewage problems in the NFL players Annual report. The report the NFL owners are trying to stop from happening each year rating the facilities by the players. So I think you would be mistaken.
Edit to add: Dolphins stadium rated 2nd best in the league. So probably not a problem here. But there are 6 F's on the report cards. Including ARZ, ATL and LA. ATL and LA being listed as small. I mention those as they are the F's that still host major events like SB and big CFB games.
It’ll be up to the host. It’s more of an event than another game. They sell all that shit to anyone willing to pay for it. They bring in people who aren’t on game day staff to figure it all out. They try to make it look like a locker room you’ve never seen. I think the biggest advantage is if the Maimi players to to sleep in their own beds the night before the game. They’ll probably make them stay in a hotel, but there’s nothing better that your own bed.
I bet if Indiana wins tonight Cignetti will tell Miami to use their normal home locker room because he wants no inkling of reasoning for excuses when they trounce Miami in their own stadium.
Well, back in the day, Nebraska as the Big Eight champ could have used the home team's locker room in the Orange Bowl against Miami, but decided to switch to the visitors' locker room after officials told Nebraska that they couldn't guarantee security for the home team's locker room.
"The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room. Those will be decorated for the Orange Bowl and need to be fully redone for Dolphins-Bills."
I don’t know how many locker rooms that stadium has. I don’t think IU would really care, but they probably wouldn’t want it just so Miami doesn’t have more of an advantage. I would assume you at least have a locker room for Miami and the Dolphins. I also wonder if they have extra ones for the times there would be more than one game there in one day. So basically saying they have at least 4 locker rooms there.
My 3 thoughts:
1) probably because that makes sense. 2) I can’t imagine either of the teams caring that much or that it’ll make any significant difference 3) Hard Rock Stadium has 2 NFL locker rooms
The NFL locker rooms aren't used by college teams historically. The away might be, but the the Dolphin's locker room is basically locked out from Miami ever being in it.
To be fair, the Dolphins aren't using it this time of year
Did they even use it this year?
Tua doesn’t remember.
That doesn't really narrow it down. There's probably a lot that dude doesn't remember
Hey now just because there's 200 I mean 100 I mean 50 I mean 25 I mean 3 million in his bank account rn, don't count Tua out!
r/thatsthejoke
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
I totally forgot there was an NFL team in Miami.
Don’t worry so did Miami residents
I’m sure they had plenty of player meetings
They were using it to store ping pong tables.
Ha!
Ooooooooooo
To be fair, it wouldn’t surprise me if hard rock had four locker rooms for this reason.
Phins Canes 2 neutrals.
Presumably, in order to get access to one of the owned locker rooms the owner would have to consent to it. Miami can consent to using their own locker rooms, so it really wouldn’t surprise me if they are in their own.
I really doubt there’s a provision in this with regards to the game, and I imagine it’s up to the discretion of the stadium who by default will probably just be like “whatever”
Oh my god I'm literally so stupid. I was sitting here trying to figure out why the Carolina Hurricanes would have a locker room in Miami, lmao.
The Panthers own the Hurricanes in the playoffs so it would make sense tbh
This made me chuckle.
stop it. no it wouldn't
Agree with this. Honestly doubt anyone at the stadium or the CFP cares.
I know for sure Heinz has 4 locker rooms (5 even there’s just an extra one normally the refs use I think) because it’s pretty frequent that both nfl and college are moving equipment in and out in overlapping time frames
Yep. And if you take the stadium tour they lead you through the Pitt and Steelers locker rooms
And as I understand it, Pitt has a nicer locker room than the Steelers do.
Makes sense. NFL teams don't need flashy facilities to recruit. Just quality enough to get the job done.
And also the Steelers ownership is kinda cheap
“Kinda” cheap?! They’ve been in the NFL since the 30’s and they still had to go out and get a roommate. That’s just poor asset management right there, sad to see it
That is correct
Maybe it’s different for us, but I’m like 99% certain Army and Navy get access to the NFL locker rooms for the Army-Navy game.
Yeah, those guys keep a TON of personal belongings there. It's their second home during the season. No one uses it except them.
That being said, that's probably also true at Miami so they probably aren't moving but surely the opponent will have good facilities too.
Not every NFL stadium has great locker rooms…
I played in a few sugar bowls and let me tell you the locker rooms were like high school level
I've been on a tour of US Bank stadium, and the Vikings locker room is nice, but not super extravagant or anything. They don't even have permanent names on the lockers. Imagine like a mid-level nice golf course locker room. They're really only there once a week - their day to day work is at the practice facility (which IS really nice.)
That surprises me.
Unless the stadium was built in the last 15 years or so I assume they aren’t great.
The Superdome was built in 1975. There’s a big gulf between what was considered luxury then and now.
Not to mention that they probably never even considered aiming for luxury in 1975.
In 1975, they were looking for affordability. It was college football, not the pros. And even the pros didn’t go all out on lockers rooms because, it’s a locker room. You’re changing and leaving. How nice does it really need to be?
These days, meaningless bells and whistles are recruiting tools and you have a significant media presence in locker rooms so the show has become more important.
Good point.
Usually the practice facilities are the baller ones, they don’t spend much time in the game day locker rooms
Also colleges have to recruit with shiny facilities to impress high school kids. NFL you go where you are drafted and then to where the money is.
I wonder if the super-fancy facilities will be one of the future casualties of NIL. Recruiting will still happen, of course, but I imagine the bells and whistles won't be as necessary when there's a price tag associated with the recruitment. I mean, I'm sure they'll still be nice, but probably not at the level they were pre-NIL.
It will still be a baseline requirement. If two schools offer you a million, might as well go to the nicer one. And with upgraded locker rooms also comes the upgraded weight rooms and training and practice facilities to improve.
Makes sense
Unlike college the locker rooms aren’t recruiting tools
Biggest issue I’ve seen with the NFL locker room situation for college teams is only having 54 locker spaces rather than the 100 for college teams
Yeah we had to almost split into 2 rooms
How long ago?
With Kirby
That's cool!
In the nfl the locker rooms aren’t recruiting tools
Everyone thinking they're gonna be cool with making Miami more comfortable by giving them their locker room and sideline is insane, respectfully
Do the Dolphins and Canes have different locker rooms? That way the higher ranked team can use the Dolphins' room while Miami can use their own
I imagine a stadium like Hard Rock has multiple locker rooms for events they host year round. Miami’s locker room may not be used at all
Heinz Field is like this as well, with the Steelers and Pitt having separate locker rooms
Same with Raymond James
And Allegiant with the Raiders and UNLV
And Lincoln Financial for the Eagles and Temple
And my axe!
Heck, the Saddledome in Calgary has separate rooms for the Flames, the AHL Wranglers, the WHL Hitmen, and the NLL Roughnecks, plus at least two for visiting teams.
If Calgary gets a PWHL team they'll need another one or two.
I didn't know this. My daughter lives 10 mins away from that stadium and now have a new fun fact of the day
FYI, you can take an official guided tour of Raymond James Stadium. I took my son for one in the summer. I think it was around $16 per person, plus I tipped the guide $10 because she was excellent. It was awesome. She took us through the guts of the stadium, USFs locker room, we peeked in the Bucs locker room but we're not allowed all the way in. Through the VIP bar area, up to the suites. Then the grand finale was going on the pirate ship for a photo op, and down onto the field to play around for 15 minutes or so. Naturally, we exited through the gift shop. Totally worth it! It was a terrific experience. My boy is a massive Bucs fan and he loved every second of it. Strong recommend.
The Cincinnati Reds do this too and it’s incredible. Start in their HOF Museum then a top to bottom tour of the stadium including the dugouts. You can go in the Reds locker room if they’re on a road trip.
Gonna second this. Did it this August, awesome tour. Before that, I didn't even know you could do tours of Pro venues. Also highly recommend the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Best Museum in the country.
This is actually required in our state constitution.
Were you allowed on the field at Raymond James? The Lambeau Field tour takes you onto the field level through the Packer's tunnel, but no one is allowed to step onto the grass of the field.
Absolutely! We went onto the field. Took pics on the 50. Played around. I timed my son on a 40 yard dash. I framed up some pictures to look like a close up of him taking a snap from under center. We did all the corny hamming it up father son / stuff you can imagine. A big high five on the sideline like we won the Superbowl. A fake huddle breakdown. We made the most of the opportunity. It was a lot of fun. We ASKED if we could fire the cannon on the pirate ship. We were denied, but pro tip, you CAN ring the bell on the pirate ship!
This was shortly after a Metallica concert at Raymond James, so I wouldn't say the field was in great shape, but there were Buccaneers & 50th anniversary logos painted on the field. You could see the lines and hashmarks.
When I was in college, I was working for my college's baseball team when we advanced to the D2 college world series in Cary, N.C. We took a tour of the Durham Bulls facility, and they took us in the clubhouse, and on the way in, there's this little section of narrow hallway between the entrance and when you actually get in the square of the clubhouse, and Wil Myers was leaving at the same time we were going out and I bumped in to him.
That's my only professional facility tour experience. Nothing else to add.
My cousins hit that tour up and loved it
Pitt's is way nicer BTW.
The Steelers locker room is stuck in the late 90s aesthetic
Now I'm picturing a locker room adorned with the jazz cup design.
NGL it would be an improvement
Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle has NBA locker rooms that are currently unused, they’re just waiting for us to get an NBA team. There are two other active sets of locker rooms used by the NHL and WNBA
I know at the Benz Stadium that Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United have separate locker rooms. Even when Georgia State used to play at the Georgia Dome, it was separate as well.
Wonder if the Marlin’s locker room is still available.
What did crypto.com do with the Clippers’ spaces when they moved out?
The Clippers were always using the visitor locker room
Not sure where you're getting your info from but there are 12 locker rooms at Crypto.com Arena.
When all 4 shared the arena, the Clippers, Lakers, Kings, and Sparks all had dedicated permanent home locker rooms. The Clippers locker room was converted during the renovations they did to all locker room facilities at the arena this past year.
As they should
It probably doesn't exist, not in the same way at least. They demolished and rebuilt most of the lower bowl after the Marlins left to bring the seats closer to the field.
I mean it makes sense to have separate locker rooms when an NFL team and CFB team share a stadium
Something I’ll add that never really gets brought up, I had a friend who worked for the Rockets and he gave me a personal tour of Toyota Center…like we were one of 4 people in the building and then watched the game from their film room, personal tour. We could take pictures of everything but when we got to their locker room, we couldn’t because it was the players space and it was private.
Which isn’t to say those pictures don’t exist or blah blah. But the players keep personal items, get their mail sent to the stadium, and a bunch of stuff. It’s not so simple as “clean out the locker after every game”. For the Texans, their gameday locker is also their practice field locker room. Idk how the Dolphins are but even with the season over, their gameday lockers probably have a bunch of their shit in it so it’s easier to just put teams in a neutral locker regardless.
Back when the cardinals played in Sun Devil stadium they had a separate locker room from ASU which I believe the visitors used.
Would not be surprised if neither Canes nor Fins locker rooms are used.
it was well known that when the Giants and Jets played at Giants stadium the Giants had to dress in the guest locker room because they were technically the away team
I used to work for an NFL team that would host soccer games and the occasional big name concert, that teams stadium had five locker rooms iirc— football home, football away, soccer 1, soccer 2, artist locker room. I’d imagine a shared CFB/NFL stadium has at least that if not +2 more
Might as well. The Dolphins aren't using theirs this time of year anyway.
Burn!
Harsh but fair
sad dolphin noises
Don’t even have a coach. Poverty franchise.
My falcons don’t either:(
Got em
Yes
The stadium has Dolphins, Canes and Away locker rooms.
IU or Oregon will be in the Canes room. UM will be in the away locker room.
The only way that changes is if Cignetti or Lanning allow it. Same thing with the practice fields I believe.
When they host the Orange Bowl for example, does a team actually use the UM locker room? Or are both teams just using away locker rooms? My experience with both pro and college hockey programs has been that their locker rooms are never used by anyone else. Any other teams using the facility simply use the away or neutral locker rooms.
Dolphins does not get touched. I believed the Canes room got used for the home team. I’m not aware of a fourth room there.
Sounds right but how do you know
Been to the stadium probably 100 times, one third of those to the locker room level.
The designations are standard procedure for college postseason competition. Home team (higher ranked team) gets the “better” facilities.
Wouldn't that put the Big Ten team in the Dolphins facilitiy next door?
Depends. Some teams use the lockeroom year round (packers) so they may not have that facility available for use.
I haven’t been in either facility but I would bet Miami has better practice facilities than the Dolphins have. Having top of the line luxury facilities was a huge deal for recruiting before NIL changed everything. The NFL owners on the other hand never really gave a shit. Most of the time they draft or trade for you and own your ass. And if a free agent is deciding between two teams it’s usually about the money. The college facilities are probably also larger and better suited to handling a larger roster since they have a lot more players than an NFL team does. And in this case it would probably be a benefit for the Big 10 team to take Miami’s facilities to remove some of Miami’s home field advantage by removing them from their comfort zone.
I just checked the NFLPA report card and...the Dolphins might have very nice digs.
https://nflpa.com/report-cards/2025/miami-dolphins
As bad as the dolphins have been, Stephen Ross has built a really nice facility down there
At the Bank of America Stadium, the Carolina Panthers players have 24 hr access to the locker room and team facilities. They are encouraged to come work out and study film. They don’t clear out their locker after a game. I’d be floored if that isn’t the case with every NFL team.
The Dolphins aren’t giving up their locker room to a college team.
I would guess the Dolphins have their own locker room that only they use. Most of these stadiums have 3 or 4 locker rooms now, for that reason.
1000% not that simple
They should make the canes use the visitors locker room since they are the lower ranked team.
I’ve coached a couple of high school games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, and it has 5-6 different locker rooms. The Cowboys have their own, which only they use, and then there are 4-5 others for events like the high school state championships. They have 3 games per day during that week. Having at least 4 locker rooms is the only way to make that efficient.
Is an NFL locker room big enough for a college team?
we use the visitor locker room for every game. it's the one that's closest to the student section where we come out.
the dolphins use the locker room closest to the home sideline.
there might be 3 or 4 total locker rooms in the stadium, so i'm not sure the dolphins locker room gets used by either team when we play at home.
That would certainly make sense. I’m guessing they have at least 3. Dolphins one reserved only for the Dolphins
Given how many events this stadium holds, it's more likely 3 to 5 main locker rooms and the same amount of space in flex rooms.
For context the Linc a less busy building has Eagles, Temple, away and then a bunch of smaller ones that can converted into various sizes for that event. Basically a 1/3 to a 1/4 of the service level is locker room space.
I figure they’ll have to use the away locker. They will be the lower seed. Has nothing to do with respect or lack of respect It’s just how it works, right?
Yes. They’ll have to use the away locker room unless I suppose Indiana/Oregon says they don’t mind.
Unless maybe Oregon/Indiana takes the Dolphins locker room?
I would imagine the canes one is a better fit because of roster size. Not sure you want guys doubling up on lockers.
That's not something they can just choose to do, it's dependent upon the Dolphins say
Not sure how “so long and thanks for all the fish” helps here.
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Plenty of towels in a locker room. So it's nice to know they're prepared if the Vogons show up.
Hey. I work at an NFL stadium. The home NFL team(s) can say whether or not they will allow their locker rooms to be used. In the event they do not allow it, there are other alternative locker rooms that can be assigned to incoming teams as needed. There's no "have to" etc...
This actually happened for an Orange Bowl in the 80s, I think it was 84.
They were the away team, and Oklahoma made them use the visitors' locker room. They also told them not to use the trademark smoke entrance
Sebastian the Ibis took a fire extinguisher and did the smoke anyway, iirc this got the guy arrested.
Miami won.
Edit: it was 1988
Yeah, I was gonna say, it has to be later than '84 because that's when Oklahoma's dumbass wagon got stuck on the field and they were penalized 15 yards for it. Dopes.
Miami and Oklahoma hated each other in the 80s. Oklahoma won the Natty in '85, their only loss was against Miami. In '86 their only loss was against Miami, who lost the Natty to Penn State. In '87 they went undefeated until the Orange Bowl, where they lost to Miami. Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson did not like each other to put it mildly. Making Miami use the opposing locker room definitely sounds like some shit they would do.
Switzer turned hating Jimmy Johnson into the Cowboy's job later on
I can say with complete confidence that we are ok with that if it happens. Better to have a seat in one of the locker rooms than in one of the stadium seats.
Well I am shocked that you wouldn't forfeit a natty over the visitor locker room
Home lockers or bust baby
Notre Dame probably would
Alright.
That's hilarious.
And Auburn will claim the title no matter who wins it anyways
Some things are non negotiable
Nah, we took a bunch of post-Chipotle lunch dumps all over that room, Indiana/Oregon are welcome to it.
I would prefer a stadium seat, you cannot see the field from the locker room
I would assume they have TVs in the locker room.
Joke's on them. I have a TV in my pocket. Checkmate.
From what I can tell this is a very serious comment. Based on Miami home games, even the fans don't like sitting in one of the stadium seats.
No, they decided last year Fiesta Bowl winner gets home locker room
Unless Notre Dame is playing, then they get it. Special clause
Notre Dame will get to use the home locker room at the Rose Bowl when they play the winner of Miami vs Indiana/Oregon in an exhibition game
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This doesn't really mean anything depending on the stadium setup.
By home I mean Miami Hurricanes
From this article about 6 years ago: "The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room. Those will be decorated for the Orange Bowl and need to be fully redone for Dolphins-Bills."
Love this.
They'll get whichever locker room the cocaine is hidden in.
we don’t hide cocaine in miami.
Hide it in your nose for later.
This is what i want to hear.
Even if the duck fan was joking embrace the stereotypes and stigmas and let's show what type of program Miami is.
Bc for almost to two decades Oregon has been close. But not fortunate to snort and feel that rush after a championship victory!
yeah it’s out in the open
You guys will definitely be wearing white.
So, Michael Irvin’s house.
He might have a house just for his Coke
Hide?
TIL Cristobal's nose is a locker room.
is it their own stadium? like do they have a kitted out contracted/branded locker room? is so, then they would use their own locker room. My guess is Dolphins would not allow either team to use their locker room.
these stadiums are hosting huge events outside of football, including the world cup, MLS teams. I'm sure the staff can remove and redo locker rooms to a purpose in short order. Same way basketball courts can be hockey arenas the next day.
“The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room.”
Not sure if anything has changed since 2017.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2017/12/29/inside-hard-rock-stadium-s/7051648007/
I imagine neutral-site games use the NFL locker rooms.
If you get to play for a natty in your home stadium when no one expected you to be there, you're probably not too sensitive about the locker rooms.
For the sake of having “home field advantage”, I hope so. Not in a F the U kind of way. But schools purposely make visitor locker rooms a lot crappier for visitors. So if I’m a coach with home-field advantage, I would want the home locker room.
Hard rock is not that way, the away locker room is NFL quality
Too bad the home team isn’t.
NFL away locker rooms are actually not as nice as the home locker rooms. There is more going in and out every week. Things get beat up more and generally are very basic and utilitarian. A home locker room is always nicer because the home team will have less traffic and will film promos give tours etc. the only exception would be met life and SoFi.
For sure, I just don’t think Hard Rock’s away locker room is so bad that it gives Miami an advantage. Just seems like an excuse
Yeah, locker rooms shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme
Having been in multiple locker rooms at Miami’s stadium I don’t know how many there are but I do know there’s more than one very nice locker room. We got to use them when I was in the marching band a couple times.
I don't think you can get away with that so much in the NFL though and it's a pro stadium
Quite a few stadiums received an F on visiting locker rooms, including sewage problems in the NFL players Annual report. The report the NFL owners are trying to stop from happening each year rating the facilities by the players. So I think you would be mistaken.
Edit to add: Dolphins stadium rated 2nd best in the league. So probably not a problem here. But there are 6 F's on the report cards. Including ARZ, ATL and LA. ATL and LA being listed as small. I mention those as they are the F's that still host major events like SB and big CFB games.
Just switch the "Home" and "Visitor" signs outside the locker rooms and problem solved
Wow that’s really funny never thought about that
It happened a few times when they were the visiting team in the Orange Bowl, too.
Regardless of that, I am all in for the storylines. Miami is playing for the national championship in their backyard against either Indiana or Oregon.
They’ll be relegated to porta-potties; it’s only fair.
I think the Dolphins HC office would also be some available space.
It’ll be up to the host. It’s more of an event than another game. They sell all that shit to anyone willing to pay for it. They bring in people who aren’t on game day staff to figure it all out. They try to make it look like a locker room you’ve never seen. I think the biggest advantage is if the Maimi players to to sleep in their own beds the night before the game. They’ll probably make them stay in a hotel, but there’s nothing better that your own bed.
A lot of teams make players stay at a hotel for home games anyway so I'm not convinced about this advantage.
Will the lower-seeded team have Mike McDaniels calling the offense?
Is that how it works? Really funny if it happens.
I bet if Indiana wins tonight Cignetti will tell Miami to use their normal home locker room because he wants no inkling of reasoning for excuses when they trounce Miami in their own stadium.
That’s fine they can use the fins locker room
They're going to truck in the Texas Tech portable locker rooms and use those instead
They let the Rams use their own locker room as the away team in the super bowl
Orange Bowl should be resurrected for this. Go Canes!
This seems like an issue that a small post-it note that says "visitor's locker room" could fix.
TIL these stadiums have multiple locker rooms when they have multiple tenants.
Miami does use the dolphins locker rooms. There are multiple locker rooms in Hard Rock
Well, back in the day, Nebraska as the Big Eight champ could have used the home team's locker room in the Orange Bowl against Miami, but decided to switch to the visitors' locker room after officials told Nebraska that they couldn't guarantee security for the home team's locker room.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1994/12/13/nebraska-makes-ob-locker-switch-to-ensure-safety/
I do know Oklahoma used the home locker room as Big 8 champs for the 1987 Orange Bowl. Obviously, it didn’t help much.
Idk probably, as if it really matters
"The stadium has three locker rooms: two for NFL teams and an auxiliary one. The Hurricanes usually use the visiting NFL locker room, but for the Orange Bowl the ACC team always goes in the Dolphins’ and the opponent is housed in the other NFL room. Those will be decorated for the Orange Bowl and need to be fully redone for Dolphins-Bills."
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2017/12/29/inside-hard-rock-stadium-s/7051648007/
This article is from 2017 though, so things might have changed.
I don’t know how many locker rooms that stadium has. I don’t think IU would really care, but they probably wouldn’t want it just so Miami doesn’t have more of an advantage. I would assume you at least have a locker room for Miami and the Dolphins. I also wonder if they have extra ones for the times there would be more than one game there in one day. So basically saying they have at least 4 locker rooms there.
Who cares? We're going to the SHIP. THE U IS HERE, GET USED TO IT
Miami doesn’t have a stadium. They rent from the Seminoles.