Jerry Flake

[fanof71]

A classic...shot da hook, shoot it!

[ragin50]

Found this on yahoo

"Thirty years since picking up a basketball, this 73-year-old has still got it. Watch Jerry Flake (who used to shoot hoops for the University of Louisiana) show off on the court for his grandson in Plant City, Florida."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...195046533.html

Really good stuff! Coach Shipley would be proud.

[HelmutVII]

Good for him.

[Big Buds]

Fantastic!

[Duggie35]

Don’t the Cajuns still have a few available scholarships?

[Gueydanmike1969]

He used to ride his bicycle all over campus each day going from one class to another. Nice guy. A few months ago, I was playing blackjack at the casino with my Ragin Cajuns cap on. An elderly couple next to me asked if I had gone to UL and I told them I had. They were relatives of Jerry and we had a ball bringing back the memories.

[Boomer]

He used to ride his bicycle all over campus each day going from one class to another. Nice guy. A few months ago, I was playing blackjack at the casino with my Ragin Cajuns cap on. An elderly couple next to me asked if I had gone to UL and I told them I had. They were relatives of Jerry and we had a ball bringing back the memories.

........We lived on the same or close floors and got to be pretty good friends...he would stop by before games and wanted all the info...damn he was skinny.....glad to see he was the real deal——some years back he came for a reunion in the dome...said that he had won a money tourney with an entrance fee...think he won about $5k.....he could fill ‘er up!

[NewsCopy]

Flake's no. 20 jersey is retired by Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns. He played for UL in the 1960s, but can still ball at age 73.

The rest of the story
ESPN 1420

[Turbine]

Jerry Flake inducted into Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

https://www.washtimesherald.com/spor...d877a4219.html

[BeauCajun]

He is a member of the Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Southwestern Louisiana Athletics Hall of Fame.

From the article. That second one???

[60swerethebest]

Happy for Jerry. Classy guy. Would actually talk to us on campus.

[HelmutVII]

When ever I see a thread with just a name I immediately think that person has died or is very ill. I guess it's a sign of the times.