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Dan Radakovich is good at building things, and right now at Miami he's trying to move forward with plans for a $200 million, 172,000 square-foot football operations facility.

If Clemson's state-of-the-art facility is called Dabo Land, then maybe Miami's will be called Mario Land. But that's assuming Mario Cristobal is still around years from now when the facility is complete.

But Radakovich's biggest task -- and the biggest contrast with the place he left in December of 2021 -- is building interest in football.

This was illustrated during a recent interview with The Miami Herald when Radakovich was asked how many season tickets have been sold for the 2023 season.

The number was 27,000.

Gulp.

Yeah, digesting that number is not going to be easy when your former shop was used to selling 55,000 season tickets.

That's another layer of the strangeness that accompanies some of the ACC's football-centric schools trying to capitalize on their so-called brands that are so-called attractive to other conferences.

If the program that still hasn't won an ACC title -- and one that got drilled at home by Middle Tennessee State last year -- isn't even much of a brand in its own town, how much clout does it have in the realignment game as a cluster of ACC schools explore their options elsewhere?

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