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(03-13-2024 04:58 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  

(03-13-2024 02:12 PM)chatcat Wrote:  

(03-13-2024 12:15 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  This statue business is a slippery slope. Good thing fifty thousand dollars wasn't spent commissioning one of Marge Schott and placing it at the entrance to UC's baseball stadium.

Sometimes it's risky renaming streets for folks still living. Pete Rose Way comes to mind. However, I'm still amazed that our city doesn't have a street renamed for Oscar Robertson. Even UC could do that where University Avenue crosses Jefferson into campus. And I'm not talking about hanging an auxiliary sign above the street name as the city seems to do quite often these days. I mean change the street name permanently in honor of the greatest player in Cincinnati basketball history.

You're probably too young to remember, but after UC beat tOSU for the national championship in 1962 the stretch of Clifton Ave from McMillan to Ludlow was renamed Avenue of Champions. It was changed back I think in the mid '60's

You are correct. You may also be too young to remember that after UC beat Ohio State for the national championship in 1961, Ohio's Governor, Michael V. DiSalle, pushed a resolution through the Ohio General Assembly designating Ohio State as the #1 team in the nation. True Story. DiSalle was from Toledo and was a graduate of both Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law School. However, it would seem apparent that he was not too smart.

LOL, if that same scenario were replicated in 2025 I'm sure a similar resolution would be presented on behalf of OSU and it too would pass. OSU still owns the Statehouse.