That doesnt mean he deserves the floor being named after him. And i say that as someone that has been to many, many wbb games over the years. Fennelly is a great coach, a great person, and a great ambassador for ISU.. but you have to do more than that to get the floor. He should be honored in some other way though whenever he decides to retire.
Fennelly's Floor?
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That doesnt mean he deserves the floor being named after him. And i say that as someone that has been to many, many wbb games over the years. Fennelly is a great coach, a great person, and a great ambassador for ISU.. but you have to do more than that to get the floor. He should be honored in some other way though whenever he decides to retire.
No offense to Fred, because I love him and he's one of the best things to happen to this University, but we shouldn't and probably never will rename Hilton Coliseum. There's just some things that don't come with a price tag and should never be changed and 2 of those things are: Hilton Coliseum and Jack Trice Stadium.
Now in about 20 years after Hoiberg has retired and lead us to multiple national championships, we can name the court after him, but don't ever change Hilton.
I think some people here are too quick to pull the trigger on renaming things after people. Remember, once you name something like a court or an arena, you really can't go back and change it. So, when you name it, you better make sure it's for a damn good reason and permanent. Otherwise, just stick to statues/restaurants/roads/etc. You can't give somebody the honor of naming an object after them, and then in about 30 years when somebody does something better, give that honor to somebody else.
These kind of comments disgust me. So you are saying our women's athletes aren't as deserving, don't work as hard, don't accomplish as much as the men? Sad statement all the way around. Coach Fennelly has accomplished more than any coach at Iowa State. ANY coach. He's like the Bill Snyder of women's basketball. Personally I don't think the court should be named.
Interesting idea. Isn't the east-west road right in front of Hilton named Center St. or something like that? I feel like we could easily rename that.
This discussion is probably less about Bill Fennelly's floor, and more about Fred Hoiberg's ceiling.
Hilton Coliseum is a recognizable name. You don't just go changing something like that. That's like Hickory Park changing its name to Bob's BBQ Shack. No...just, no. Hilton Coliseum 4 life duuude.
Our seats give us a good view of the home bench at the women's games and after some of the manhandling and shoving BF has done during the games makes me disagree. This last year was a lot better, I.e. Less physical, but the previous couple years, ouch. I vote no to renaming anything after him.
Heck, they changed Elwood Drive into University or some such nonsense, they can change Center St.
No, he is saying that being the women's basketball coach is enough to disqualify him from having the basketball arena named after him. That's it. Women's basketball generates revenue at exactly TWO schools in ncaa basketball. Total. As stated, unless the guy has won a ton and built Iowa State women's basketball into a national powerhouse along the lines of UConn or Tennessee then he shouldn't even be considered. Maybe if the women's team has their own arena then fine, follow up on it, but that's it. No one should even be having this conversation for another 20 years. Hoiberg has coached for 4 years. The OP was largely just getting carried away with the Hoiberg-mania sweeping over Cyclone nation.
Fennelly has done more for ISU than anybody in this thread has. I'm not saying that he'll get the floor named after him, but I'm a little ashamed of some of the people posting :unsure:
Look, there isn't anything wrong with being realistic about the place that women's basketball holds in college basketball. Let's face it, Hilton Coliseum itself is older than the entire ISU women's basketball program. If ISU was required to put SOMEONE'S name on the floor right now Fennelly appears to be the most worthy honoree but ISU is not in that position. To put someone's name on a floor isn't something you do off the cuff. The whole argument is pointless since Fred Hoiberg has coached for FOUR YEARS and won just 90 games. It's absurd to even be discussing it.
It's possible you are making a different point than I am seeing, but you can't be saying 90 wins in 4 years isn't good, right?