Long trail of successes after basketball, not wins, are his fondest memories (Part two of a two-part series)
Even in retirement, former Eastern Washington basketball coach Jerry Krause will have little time to relax as he plans to spend more time writing books and working on a variety of projects.
He didn't invent the term student-athlete but for former Eastern Washington basketball coach Jerry Krause, one might think so because rare is the time it is not part of a conversation.
Krause, 79, who "retired" as much as he knows how this past spring from active coaching, will still be connected to the game in a variety of ways, all of them in some form of teaching or mentoring.
His career locally stretches nearly 50 years to 1967 when he took over a struggling Eastern Washington State College program and ended up as the basketball coach with the next best record behind the legendary Red Rees...
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