Manny Diaz is learning quickly that in Miami, even the Hurricanes head coach takes a back seat to Mick Jagger and company.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel got a few minutes with Miami AD James Blake on Wednesday and he confirmed that the football program is exploring a number of different venues to hold their first spring game under Diaz as the result of a rather big scheduling conflict at their home field: a Rolling Stones concert at Hard Rock Stadium.
“The belief is the spring game is April 20th and we are considering alternate sites because of the Rolling Stones concert,” James said. “Orlando is one of the sites that is being considered.”
That would be Camping World Stadium, home to the bowl game of the same sponsor and the site of where Miami will open the 2019 season against in-state rival Florida. While one would think that the team could just move the game around on the schedule, it appears as though the Miami Open tennis tournament is also being held at the stadium and making life a little difficult in terms of finding a date that works with everybody.
Interestingly this traveling road show is becoming something of a theme for the Hurricanes when it comes to their spring game. They held a regular scrimmage at a local high school in 2017 due to Hard Rock Stadium construction and played the game up the road in Fort Lauderdale the year before that.
If only some place was able to give the Hurricanes some shelter...
