Crisler Arena renamed The Crisler Center
Per Michael Rothstein twitter.
https://twitter.com/#!/mikerothstein
"Greetings from the Crisler Center (new name as of yesterday) where Christmas music is plentiful. Oh, basketball in 31 minutes, too"
Here is the reason:
"@ChrisVannini They are changing it to the entire place (practice facillity, arena)"
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:12 PM ^
Why? Oh well, at least it looks nicer.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:16 PM ^
doesn't really matter that much I guess
as long as we're not the kfc yum center I'm happy it still honors coach crisler
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:17 PM ^
Someday I think there will be a Red Berenson Center. And he deserves it, no doubt.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:17 PM ^
I woulda been kinda mad if Brandon changed any other part of that name...
I mean technically it is still the Crisler Arena, which is part of the Crisler Center, right?
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:19 PM ^
Yes. It's like baseball, nobody calls the stadium by it's original name, Ray Fisher Stadium. It's more commonly known as The Wilpon Complex nowadays.
I personally like The Crisler Center better. It sounds classy, actually.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
It sounds classy, but this is a slippery slope. Just wait until Brandon makes it "The Crisler Center presented by TD Ameritrade" or some other stupid sponsor. I'll lead the way with pitchforks when that happens.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:44 PM ^
If Brandon gets a sponsor, it'll probably be Dominos.
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:09 PM ^
Papa John's is the current pizza sponsor.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:51 PM ^
You're just a great Michigan hero. Thanks for standing up to oppression for the rest of us!
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:45 PM ^
DB will take it any further. It's all in the spirit of the makeover.
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:29 PM ^
That is exactly what everyone was saying about uniform changes after UTL...
how did that prediction work out?
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:19 PM ^
I think this is correct, like how Fischer Stadium and Alumni Field are part of the Wilpon Baseball and Softball Complex.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:47 PM ^
this is what i came here to say :D
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:20 PM ^
The Lloyd Carr Center, Hoke Hall, John Beilein Arena
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
better than OSU's value city arena. lulz
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:42 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
Mean the value shity arena.
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:31 PM ^
....More like Value SHITTY Arena! GAH AH AH AH AH AH AH
(I just love a great pun)
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:34 PM ^
Interesting out of business strategy to keep a website and multiple locations open to the public.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:55 AM ^
Ummmm why isn't there more fanfare for this gif?
The bear glasses are epic.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:28 PM ^
C squared in A squared
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:37 PM ^
They just can't hang with our alliteration skills!
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:31 PM ^
So which one of us is gonna edit the Wiki page?
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:31 PM ^
Does this mean we've stipulated what position Fritz has to play if he comes back to play men's BB?
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:55 PM ^
Brandon should use pimp hand to bring Crisler back a 7'2" baller... I don't see why not.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^
I still believe we'll have a dual-name dealie with "Red Berenson Rink at Yost Ice Arena" in the future.
December 22nd, 2011 at 7:19 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 7:28 PM ^
make it a museum that displays all of Michigan's championship trophies and make the rink open for open-skate.Sounds like a decent Tuesday night date for the 2030 married-with-kids homeowner, or a worthy pilgrimage stop for a group watching another game that same day or weekend. Not to mention youth hockey events. Yost could be even more valuable to the AD after the team moves on to the next barn.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:22 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:33 PM ^
Damn, I'm excited to see the finished product.
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:37 PM ^
Pretty certain Red has been a citizen of the United States for some time.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:55 PM ^
Im just waiting for the university to erect a parking ramp and call it the Carr Parking Center
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:00 PM ^
...the swimming pool in the athletic complex is named after former President Robert Carr.
It's the Carr Pool.
(That's not the best name on campus: the two buildings housing the college administrative offices are named Peters and Cox.)
December 22nd, 2011 at 7:21 PM ^
THE Crisler Center
/buckeye'd
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:00 PM ^
It fits into Brandon's strategy of copying Wisconsin
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:47 PM ^
...who thinks they should have changed the name completely. I mean, it's a basketball arena named after a football great. I understand we are football school, but it seems it wouldn't be too outlandish to name after Cazzie Russel or equivalent.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
It's not a basketball arena named after a football coach, it's a basketball arena named after the athletic director who had it built.
Crisler gets overshadowed by his predecessor (Yost) and his successor (Canham), but Michigan probably had more overall athletic success during Crisler's term as AD than any other time in their history.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:56 PM ^
...but I'm pretty sure he was also our football coach. He was probably most known at Michigan as a coach not an AD - after all, he introduced the winged helmet at Michigan.
Either way, whether named while he was our AD or not, our basketball stadium is named after a former football coach. I'm a big a MBB fan (not as big as football) and it never sat right with me. I have always hope that we would show a renewed commitment to basketball with a new arena named after something basketball related (or just rename the current arena).
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:31 PM ^
...but I hear it looks great. I suppose I was going a bit overboard. Mea Culpa!
However, these improvements were far overdue and after updgrades to other facilities that probably have less significance to our Michigan image (i.e. baseball). I still think its not too much to ask to name our basketball arena after someone more closely tied to basketball. While its quite obvious that we are (and always will be) a football school, I think we can satiate prospective b-ball recruits more if they know they will be playing in, say Cazzie Russell complex or Rudy T Center, etc etc, as oppose to a football coach.
Just some loose comparisons:
Duke - Cameron: named after their former basketball coach
Kentucky - Rupp: um...
Kansas - Allen Fieldhouse: named after former basketball coach
Arizona- McKale Center: named after former basketball coach
North Carolina - Dean Smith: um...
I know these are just a few examples, but I think there is a valid correlation (not necessarilty causation)
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:51 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:44 PM ^
Michigan Hockey needs the most signature building in college hockey. And that arena is Yost Ice Arena.
Give it a rest. Given the amount of cash that's about to get dumped into Yost this offseason, and the commitment Michigan has made to that building over the years, it's not going anywhere. The capacity is probably right at about the ceiling Michigan can reasonably fill on any given night, down year or championship run alike.
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:04 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:12 PM ^
There are other buildings on campus over 100 years old. What is it about Yost that gives it a shorter life expectancy? Besides, the building's been renovated a bunch of times, so portions of it are considerably younger than that.
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:19 PM ^
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:30 PM ^
Well, how many sports arenas were built before 1911? Part of the reason why there aren't any that are 100 years old is that there literally weren't many in existence a century ago. Yost was one of the first of its kind.
North Dakota is apples/oranges. Hockey's the biggest game in town over there. It's to them what football is to us.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:33 AM ^
You realize The Ralph is essentially an NHL arena tossed up in the prairie by an eccentric, Nazi-sympathyzing, casino-owning Sioux alum, and there's no way they could have justified it without the fact that Ralph Engelstad wanted to build a temple to his alma mater and the Fighting Sioux mascot, right? It's a completely different animal at a different kind of university.
I've been to The Ralph. It's amazingly beautiful. But it's not Yost. I know you're really passionate about this little idea you have about the "Red Berenson Center," but the fact of the matter is that Yost IS Michigan Hockey in a million ways the Coliseum never was. It's a perfect capacity, and has been able to support the infrastructure this program has required over the years. For those of us who remember what Yost was like before the 1996 renovations, it's made a fantastic transformation over the last 15 years. We don't need a 10-12,000 seat NHL-style in-the-round arena. And I don't see New Yost springing up anywhere in the crowded South Campus complex, either.
Yost is Michigan. Period. Let's quit it with the "Red Berenson Center" speculation.
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 AM ^
I have a plan! Let me come up with an idea, fill a thread about basketball with stuff about hockey, start another thread with a bad title, and ram that idea down everybody's throats!
December 23rd, 2011 at 12:27 AM ^
The Big House is 84 years old. So your saying once the Big House nears 100 years old, we build a new stadium?