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Message: [QUOTE="RayIsTheGOAT, post: 3619963, member: 6090"] Still can't quite wrap my head around this. I graduated from UConn last year, but grew up in the area. My best childhood memories include being with friends and family, watching the height of UConn basketball in that mid-late 2000s and into the Kemba year and Shabazz year. So many incredible players to watch during those 2000s years in the Big East. Stanley Robinson is synonymous with my childhood and love for UConn basketball. When I envision someone saying "the old UConn", I truly picture Stanley Robinson and Jeff Adrien flying around the court being physical menaces. As I get older and move further from college, it's becoming more apparent how fragile and short life is. It's really cliche, but it's too true. The Kobe death too was just a lot to take in. Basketball is one of the few things in life I'm very passionate about, so even as a Celtics fan and how much that 2010 Finals crushed me, the Kobe death was like losing someone close to you. I just really hope UConn can do things to forever honor him. He was, quite literally, a pillar in UConn basketball. He represented the best part of college sports- which is when a kid has a rough upbringing and goes on to work hard and have success and bring a lot of joy in people's lives. He almost deserves his own shrine in Gampel. Just so so awful. And seeing the stories about how great of a person he was just hurts that much more. [/QUOTE]