Speculation over whether the Southeast Fisheries Science Center on Virginia Key will be replaced or relocated continues to spiral amid plans by the University of Miami to request that the center stay where it is.

The education center, also known as the learning center, will rise on the city-owned parking lot across the street from the Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, which was built in 1990 at 1933-1945 Meridian Ave.

The Miami Hurricanes arguably have been associated with an irreverent, not-so-saintly image on and off the field — long heralded as the “bad boys” of college football – the famed “convicts” of the 1988 “Catholics vs. Convicts” game with Notre Dame.