Melo Center Naming

[Irt4su]

I personally liked the Nike cleats on the Ernie Davis statue and we should have reached out to Phil Knight for naming rights to the statue

 

[upperdeck]

Athletic depts screwing this stuff up is the norm in my experience. They don't usually hire brain surgeons

 

[MikeSU02]

Not to my knowledge

Well that’s bad.

 

[PeteCalvin]

A look inside the public relations meeting about communicating the complex renaming:

“Anyone have an idea on how we should address the Melo Center portion of this announcement so we don’t risk alienating some fans?”

“OK. We’ll just leave it and see if people notice it. Meeting adjourned.”

 

[CNYGuy]

A look inside the public relations meeting about communicating the complex renaming:

“Anyone have an idea on how we should address the Melo Center portion of this announcement so we don’t risk alienating some fans?”

“OK. We’ll just leave it and see if people notice it. Meeting adjourned.”

Why are any fans “alienated” by SU putting the Lally’s name on the complex?

 

[STEVEHOLT]

Beholden to the almighty dollar, Syracuse is a distant second in making these decisions. If Lally wanted bigger font they get bigger font. Theyre the ones with the money

Who are these people that donate but need their names glorified ? What happened to donations because of the cause instead of the recognition?

 

[SUFan44]

Athletic depts screwing this stuff up is the norm in my experience. They don't usually hire brain surgeons

Does any field hire brain surgeons? That's a high bar.

I would also guess these sorts of things run through Institutional Advancement/Development and have very little to do with the athletic department.

 

[sufan59]

Who are these people that donate but need their names glorified ? What happened to donations because of the cause instead of the recognition?

The name is supposed to inspire other people with money to donate in small or even larger amounts.

 

[phil77]

Not to my knowledge

Well that is awful to hear.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

The name is supposed to inspire other people with money to donate in small or even larger amounts.

If they want to name something after you because you donate that’s fine. But if you donate BECAUSE you want everyone to laud you and see your name , then I’m not impressed at all.

 

[Blanko97]

Who are these people that donate but need their names glorified ? What happened to donations because of the cause instead of the recognition?

There’s plenty of those, but they aren’t giving 25 million

 

[STEVEHOLT]

There’s plenty of those, but they aren’t giving 25 million

There’s one at the Ohio state medical center who I bet they wish was anonymous

 

[Blanko97]

There’s one at the Ohio state medical center who I bet they wish was anonymous

Fair, very fair

 

[Bill Orange]

Also is anything he’s saying true? No one told melo? They wanted to take the name completely off the building? What is this rage bait garbage

Did anyone tell the Manley family?

I know for a fact that they had no idea until it was announced.

 

[orangefog]

I'm curious if Melo will respond.

 

[ar inj]

I'm curious if Melo will respond.

Never argue with a fool, people may not be able to tell the difference.

 

[jbsu44]

I emailed Mike Waters about this a couple of weeks ago, but no response yet.

 

[Bulldog04]

I'm curious if Melo will respond.

He’s doing some other things at the moment to add some sizzle to the steak

 

[orangemass]

The John Lally Endowed Men's Head Basketball Coach.

Well endowed?

 

[rhcuse]

Its how you use the funds that counts.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Seems tacky to diminish Carmelo’s name in order to aggrandize your own. If Lally contributed to the overall complex, how does that minimize what Carmelo did years ago for that specific facility? Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I thought Carmelo’s contribution helped build the place. That hasn’t changed. Isn’t there a difference between that versus ‘commercial naming rights?’ Sincere question: did Carmelo’s $3M have a time period attached to it?

For a communications school, we have long had incredibly tacky aesthetic schemes. Just ugly stuff. I totally get the interest in donating and getting yourself ‘immortalized’ by having your name on a building. But, for chrissakes, do it with some manner of taste and elegance.

I’ve always appreciated the Jewish tradition, where donating anonymously is the highest form of philanthropy. But, the times, they be a changing’. Unfortunately, toward the vulgar. Hell, I’ve often daydreamed about making a billion dollars and going back to SU to build some stuff and put my parents’ family names on them. To pay tribute to them. And I can guarantee that if that should happen, those names would not be visually ‘squawked.’

Are we not supposed to react to this because it was Etan who posted about it? Can’t it be worth conversation (ir-)regardless?

It’s getting to be quite difficult to maintain a sense of pride with this school. Tumbling academic rankings, the Lally v Weitzman thing, this Lally ego aesthetic, the Red vs Parents, Red vs ex-Players thing, the retiring chancellor, the AD’s laissez faireness with the basketball coach, DC vs the AD…. For so many years, I was happy to say I was a Syracuse alum. Feels like it has no positive meaning anymore.