UConn's Rodney Purvis to Honor Tyrek Coger

[husky99]

UConn's Rodney Purvis to Honor Tyrek Coger

 

[jcp33]

I really like Rodney and I love the idea of him changing him number to honor his fallen friend. One question I have though is that he said he chose to wear #15, the same number that is retired under Kemba Walker. Would the program make an exception?

For me, I have no problem at all with it because it is for something that's greater than basketball

Sorry for your loss Rodney

 

[7774]

I really like Rodney and I love the idea of him changing him number to honor his fallen friend. One question I have though is that he said he chose to wear #15, the same number that is retired under Kemba Walker. Would the program make an exception?

For me, I have no problem at all with it because it is for something that's greater than basketball

Sorry for your loss Rodney

I don't believe the numbers of the players on the wall are actually retired, so it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[jcp33]

I don't believe the numbers of the players on the wall are actually retired, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Ah, I didn't realize that was the case, thanks for clearing that up

 

[Yankees32123]

Ah, I didn't realize that was the case, thanks for clearing that up

Not enough numbers to retire them. Too much player turnover in the college game.

 

[superjohn]

Knew he was a friend of Rodney's but didn't know they were family. Rodney is a great guy, hope he has a tremendous senior season to honor his brother.

 

[gampelcrazies]

The only number they will probably retire is 34 for Ray Allen when he goes into the hall of fame

 

[UConnStats]

Not enough numbers to retire them. Too much player turnover in the college game.

Shabazz Napier, Chris Smith, and Worthy Patterson are all huskies of honor that wore #13.

 

[HooperScooper]

Knew he was a friend of Rodney's but didn't know they were family. Rodney is a great guy, hope he has a tremendous senior season to honor his brother.

UConn’s Rodney Purvis mourns loss of ‘brother’: ‘There’s no getting him back’

Just a few days earlier, Purvis’s close friend, Tyrek Coger, passed away after a workout at Oklahoma State University. Coger was 22.

Biologically, Purvis is an only child. But Coger, who was taken in by Purvis’s mother, Shanda McNair, when he was in eighth grade, was as close as Purvis has ever had to a sibling.

“He lived at my house,” Purvis said on Sunday, shortly before his Pauly Chute Slamm took on Cambyland in a GHPA game. “He was basically like my brother.”

 

[intlzncster]

Purvis previously wore No. 44 in honor of another fallen friend.

"My teammate Detrique Baker passed away in a a car accident a few years back," Purvis said.

 

[LoveMeSomeUC]

Ray Allen is already on the wall and UConn doesn't retire numbers...Wane, Thabeet and Oriakhi all wore 34 after Walter Ray was with The Huskies...The highest number a college player can wear is 55 and you cannot go above 5 for any number on the jersey...Really limits the numbers kids can have...At Duke I think they retire the jersey if your a first team all american or national player of the year...

 

[BUHusky]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/s...l-jerseys-you-can-count-them-on-one-hand.html

 

[sledog]

Interesting choice of venue.. Hope it'll be open to play:

Teen Brawls at Brooklyn Bridge Park Lead NYPD to Close Pier 2

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I really like Rodney and I love the idea of him changing him number to honor his fallen friend. One question I have though is that he said he chose to wear #15, the same number that is retired under Kemba Walker. Would the program make an exception?

For me, I have no problem at all with it because it is for something that's greater than basketball

Sorry for your loss Rodney

Numbers arent technically retired