Eric Cobb arrested for murdering mother.

[drayenob]

In almost all of the highlights UConn is losing. SMU, Tulsa, Cincinnati, Temple. Those were some dark days.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Rest in peace to the mother, first and foremost.

This is a great reminder of why I love Hurleys character scouting. He may have a couple knuckleheads, but I’ll be surprised if a Hurley recruit does something this tragic.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

In almost all of the highlights UConn is losing. SMU, Tulsa, Cincinnati, Temple. Those were some dark days.

And yet they still beat Syracuse that year.

I just looked at the roster. I don't even recognize some of the names.

 

[AntG168]

Rest in peace to the mother, first and foremost.

This is a great reminder of why I love Hurleys character scouting. He may have a couple knuckleheads, but I’ll be surprised if a Hurley recruit does something this tragic.

I mean schizophrenia doesn’t pick and choose based on character. We should withhold judgement without knowing the full story

 

[superjohn]

This story has me really upset and sad the more I've read into it. His mother must've been so proud of him earning a basketball scholarship to a major University and it sounds like she was a really good person. There were so many warning signs though. The kid was kicked out of South Carolina partly due to an arrest and never should've been offered a scholarship by Ollie. He was suspended for 1 month at UConn for conduct detrimental to the team. He has a violent arrest history with one of the arrests assaulting a police officer.

It was just him living with his mother and neighbors said he was always violent with her and she was scared of him. She was just 51 years old and this never should've happened. It's so incredibly sad what happened to her.

 

[AdamaNation]

I don't remember him at all.

He would often bring the ball up like a point forward at times. It was quite a luxury. I lived him but he just couldn’t keep it together.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

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One of his best games was against Syracuse. This was the one with the epic Hurley/Jalen Adams chest bump at the end.

My 65th birthday. It snowed.

Just about everything in this thread is awkward and sad.

 

[Dove]

Rest in Peace, Ms. Winford.

This is a very disturbing story.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

And yet they still beat Syracuse that year.

I just looked at the roster. I don't even recognize some of the names.

Eric had a troubled past when UConn became desperate for players after graduation and desertion and recruits backing out of commitments. Or declared ineligible. We were in a real bind . There was no portal so getting enough guys to practice guys left little other option I called them NFL replacement players .
Cobb was big and strong but couldn’t defend a lick . He wasn’t bad offensively.
Our actual recruits were Carlton , Whaley , Polley all still very young kids and lowly rated . . The eight best class in the AAC . They’re all playing professionally.
Cobb’s claim to fame was he had a great offensive game against Cuse his second years under Hurley After that he disappeared . I don’t remember if he used up his eligibility or transferred
This is a tragedy and regardless of his past this is something he will have to live with .
A very sad event .

 

[Bomber36]

Absolutely awful news.

 

[WrenchFan69]

His game against Syracuse was awesome

 

[HCCForever]

This story has me really upset and sad the more I've read into it. His mother must've been so proud of him earning a basketball scholarship to a major University and it sounds like she was a really good person. There were so many warning signs though. The kid was kicked out of South Carolina partly due to an arrest and never should've been offered a scholarship by Ollie. He was suspended for 1 month at UConn for conduct detrimental to the team. He has a violent arrest history with one of the arrests assaulting a police officer.

It was just him living with his mother and neighbors said he was always violent with her and she was scared of him. She was just 51 years old and this never should've happened. It's so incredibly sad what happened to her.

Perhaps Ollie was just taking a chance on Cobb and hoping he could help him. Kevin was from Compton. Calhoun took a chance with Caron and that turned out pretty well. I remember Toriano Walker from the Dream Season. He was a recruit of Calhoun. Not sure if there were any warning signs for Toriano but that story didn't end well as he was later incarcerated.

But sad story for Cobb and his late mother.

 

[444JR]

As I remember it, she was a huge backer of his, and actually came to the Boneyard

Really sad..

 

[Travelman6]

In almost all of the highlights UConn is losing. SMU, Tulsa, Cincinnati, Temple. Those were some dark days.

I counted 8 where UConn was up and 6 were against cupcakes. Ya, I went there.

 

[Stinger92860]

I have no memory of Cobb. Horrible about his mother. Just can’t fathom why he would do this.

Mental illness. Very sad.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Interesting to look at the UConn roster on the UConn Men's Hoops website. In 2017/18 it says he worked in the pre-season to drop 25 pounds and was listed at 6'9" and 249 lbs. In 2018/19 he had a much better season with some double digit scoring games as well as some games where he did very little. His weight was up to 280 lbs in 2018/19, so the conditioning was reversed. Interestingly, he also made academic honors in 2017/18. Mental illness is a terrible thing, especially untreated.

 

[freescooter]

This is an incredibly sad story. The guy has had a long history of mental health problems. We have never been very good at dealing with that. Makes you wonder if he had been able to access the right kind of help somehow if 1 person would still be alive and another’s life not in ruins. Sadly, people don’t accept that mental illness is illness.

This whole situation is really depressing.