It is time to name Bill Fennelly Court
It's Time to name the Court
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I agree that’s a great idea of naming the court at Sukup.
They will have to do something for Bill eventually. Our women's BB program was basically non-existent when he took the job and was lucky to get 50 people to come to a game and now it's one of more respected programs in the country and it will be an attractive job when Bill retires which is a huge difference than when he took it. I'm not sure what they do for him but when you consider that Orr has a statue, a banner, and bar named after him in Hilton something permanent and in plain sight needs to be added to Hilton for Bill. I'm not sure what that is, before they made Johnny's I thought they should have named the floor after him and they went a different direction so I'm not exactly sure how you honor the greatest coach in the program's history. At the very least he is going to have a banner hanging from the rafters for sure but I don't think that is going to be enough.
No- court naming is problematic as many schools have learned. I do think a banner in Hilton one day and possibly re-naming Center Street in front of Hilton is something cool and is also forever.
We should keep names off of the floor.
I also think something significant needs to be done. Not the court. This one is going to take some thought.
I think statues on the corners of the new retail center in-between the stadiums would be cool. like the walk of fame, with statues, and stars on the ground for hall of fame athletes.
I’ve thought about this before. Center is such a generic name that I don’t see why it would be a problem
I thought this had been reserved for Jamie to put up a statue of himself.
I like the idea of renaming the street. There will be no shortage of things to name, from concourses to pedestrians bridges but sadly most, court included, will likely go to the highest bidder.
