There's a post (no link accompanied it) on the Pennsylvania Sports Board that Rod Brookin has passed away. Can anyone confirm?
Rod Brookin
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Oh man, that's terrible news. Rod was one of my favorites. Had a sweet jumper and was a clutch performer. RIP.
The Twitter post from Calipari said Rod died after a long illness.
I got to know Rod while working with him in the Pitt ticket office years after his Pitt career ended. Rod was quite the character. He'd often suprise people on the phone when he gave his name and had to respond "Yes I'm *that* Rod Brookin"
RIP Rod
Rod was one of my favorites. I remember leaving the Pitt v. Boston College game during his freshman year. It was Valentine's Day & I had I had a date, Pitt was down by three & as I was walking out of the Fieldhouse, Rod hits a 3 to send the into overtime. If Derrick Coleman wasn't a freshman that year too, Rod could have been the Big East freshman of the year.
The other lasting memory of Rod was seeing him in street clothes for the Florida game. He was academically ineligible for the spring semester. Pitt was a top 10 team & he could of been the difference between losing to Vanderbilt & making it to the final four.
He wasn't the same player after that, but still one of my favorites.
RIP Rod & thanks for the great memories!
The other lasting memory of Rod was seeing him in street clothes for the Florida game. He was academically ineligible for the spring semester. Pitt was a top 10 team & he could of been the difference between losing to Vanderbilt & making it to the final four.
He wasn't the same player after that, but still one of my favorites.
RIP Rod & thanks for the great memories!
I think Rod had 23 points in that upset win over Oklahoma in 1989. I remember his dunk that made everyone scream.
Yep, 23 points and 8 boards and the reverse dunk that none of the 6,678 who were there will ever forget.
I never heard the Field House louder!
Down the stretch of the 86-87 year (Rod's Fresh) he was probably the team's best offensive player.
My memory of Rod is his role in the win vs Danny Manning and Kansas in the Rainbow Classic. Unless my memory is not serving me well, he hit a couple crucial FT's late in the game. I was a young impressionable boy at the time and it was that night, watching a game on TV during Christmas break, that I fell in love with Pitt Basketball. So Rod played a big role as to why I am on these boards every day.
"They'd have buses come to Pittsburgh or go down to D.C. or Philly to watch me play at Pitt. And my mother would be on those buses. I owe so much to that school. ... After Mike [Pilsitz] resigned, my phone has not stopped ringing to see if I'd be interested in coming back to coach."
Sometimes before our practices I would sit in the fieldhouse and watch the basketball team scrimmage. While this was going on one day, there was a student jogging around the track in the fieldhouse. He had dark hair, was very Italian-looking, and was really muscular. Brookin stopped the guy as he was jogging and said, "hey man, did anybody ever tell you that you look like Rocky?" The guy was obviously flattered, got a big smile and was about to respond when Rod said, "Yeah. AFTER the fight!" The poor guy had no idea what to do. Rod nearly hit the floor laughing at his own joke. Such a great personality.
Yep....at the old arena in Landover. I was there. Thompson walked into the tunnel with his arm around Evans at halftime?? Reggie Williams was the guy Rod insulted, went apesh*t in the second half. They killed us.
Yep.....embarrassing, but typical Evans response.....sat on the bench, chewing gum & shaking his head. Fans around me were shocked at half-time. I was p*ssed at the end. Has any Pitt coach ever done less with a group??
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