Retirement
Parks is one of the University of Memphis athletes inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame in 2004.
He returned to Memphis in 2005, partly to finish his degree under the invitation of coach John Calipari and the athletic department. Another motivation for the move was to bring his son Bobby Jr. (also known as Ray), a promising teenage player, to Memphis to expose him to better basketball competition; his son would join him in Memphis in 2006.
Parks also served as the personal assistant to John Paul "Jack" Jones, a wealthy University of Virginia alum from Memphis who is the namesake for UVA's current basketball arena.
On 2 June 2010, Parks and his family moved back to the Philippines. Parks accepted a position as athletics director at National University in Manila. During that time, he was in the middle of a battle with laryngeal cancer; his treatment was reported to be successful in April 2011. In November 2010, Bobby Jr. signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Georgia Tech, but then disappeared from the view of both Tech and the American media for several months. Eventually, Luke Winn of Sports Illustrated tracked the younger Parks down, discovering in April 2011 that Bobby Jr. had enrolled at NU and was expected to lead the Bulldogs in the upcoming UAAP season.
In 2011, the San Miguel Beermen joined the ASEAN Basketball League and named Bobby Parks its first head coach. He led the team to a finals appearance, losing to the Indonesia Warriors.
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