RIP Don Allen

[CajunJack55]

I want an announcer with more Cajun Accent.

I want a French broadcast.

Thats why we have Gerald Broussard

[CajunJack55]

Don was great. He witnessed the highs with Basketball the lows with basketball and the extreme low with Jerry Baldwin with football. The Baldwin years must have been brutal.

Imagine something similar to this....

[CajunNation]

Don was an old school reporter who didn't mind telling the administration when they needed to step up their game.

For this he was (at times) treated persona non grata.

For instance he, wrote a story near the end of the Baldwin era that the University could no longer get away with just announcing that season tickets were on sale, more was needed. They obviously didn’t listen and attendance has never recovered.

He wrote a story on fan apathy (I will try to find it and post it)

Before the internet and before easy to scour databases he was great at identifying pivotal moments in sports history.

I thought he was (at times) condesending towards his color guys by not responding, but looking back he was there for one thing and they were there for another.

I thought then and think now Don Allen was one of the best.

He has been and will continue to be missed.

Agree with all of this.

He will never get the recognition he deserves.

His voice is burned in my memory. Don was on the level of Scully. If you disagreee, you don't know what you're talking about.

Don Allen was and will always be the GOAT.

[CajunNation]

Thats why we have Gerald Broussard

I love Gerald too, but most of the time he has a pretty noticeable redneck accent.

[CajunVic]

I love Gerald too, but most of the time he has a pretty noticeable redneck accent.

. . . his name is Broussard . . . surely it's not a REDNECK accent . . .

[NOCajun]

Another Legend gone. My condolences to his family. Rest in Peace, Don.

[cajundiehard]

RIP. Definitely the voice I grew up with listening to the likes of Dion Brown and Graylin Warner, Alonza Allen, etc...

Also remember their talk show where you could win a prize for stumping them on a trivia question... I won several cases of Pepsi! The back of the game programs were always a good source for me. LOL! Eventually, they figured it out! ;-)

[CajunT]

Don passed away last night. Very sad news.

He was the “Voice of the Cajuns” that I grew up with and to this day, the best basketball play by play guy I’ve heard.

He was also excellent on football broadcasts, as well as the job he did as the track announcer at EVD.

Rest in Peace Don. You’ll be missed.

Don had been suffering for a number of years. Last time I spoke with him, might have been several years back he was in really poor health. God Bless Don!

[Grantvb]

Rest in peace, Mr. Allen. Thanks for the memories of victory over TAMU 96’.

[ragin50]

Rip Don. Don also was a member of this site and posted from time to time.

I am thinking Eric Mouton and Bobby Neveau to take Jay's place.