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Former Assistant Coach at Central among the program’s all-timers

Mike Evans was a fixture on the Storm’s coaching sideline and in its coaching booth for years. Before that, the guy nicknamed “mittens” by his teammates owing to the perception he has small hands was among the best QBs to ever command a huddle on Morton’s Gap. His son, Cooper, is among the best at the QB position in his graduating class across Kentucky. Can he surpass dad’s figures? This might prove a bit more daunting than Cooper presently thinks.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”

Morton’s Gap, KY: We have a saying around the offices at Kentucky Prep Gridiron. It is a saying I originated, or at least I believe it was coined by me.

The saying is…”You have to know where you’ve been to appreciate where you’re going.” Okay, I never said it was the most brilliant of sayings. Give me a break!

The point is our histories are important. That is why we spend the time we do recording that history.

If we can’t teach you how special coaches like Garnis Martin, Sam Harp, Dan Goble, Phillip Haywood, Fleming Thornton, and Ed Miracle were (and, in some instances, still are), from where will you learn it? If we don’t talk about the Curtis Pulley-types, the Al Baker-types, the Will Tom Collins-types, and the George Radford-types, then from where will you learn of them?

Point is, we take this seriously. The job of preserving at least some of this history falls to us, or so we believe.

This is our Central day. Today, we decided to teach you about one of Central’s all-timers. Today we discuss the career of Mike “Mittens” Evans.

Evans was called “Mittens,” supposedly, because he had small hands. Whatever he had in the hand size department meant very little. His production was prodigious.

Evans is 6th, all time at Central in career passing yards. Evans threw for 2,393-yards and 29 career passing TDs (5th all time). Evans attempted 403-passes, good for 6th all time and completed 193 of those attempts, good for 7th all-time.

Mike Evans tied for 6th all-time in passing TDs in a season with 15. The season we’re highlighting here was his senior season (2001).

Evans went on to play collegiately at the NCAA, Division II level. Evans played for Kentucky Wesleyan, a very competitive program at that level of competition.

We have discussed this ad nauseam, but if there is a college’s name and brand across your chest and you’re competing for that college substantially on its dime, you’re dad-burn good at that sport, whatever the sport may be. That is one of our persistent rules of thumb.

We have written about Mike Evans’ playing career before today. It was inadvertent, but if you will recall it was concerning the playing career of another all-timer, Adrian Stringer.

We wrote about Evans as follows: “Evans, a former Hopkins County Central QB considered one of the program’s finest, played collegiately at Kentucky Wesleyan. Presently, Evans is on the Hopkins County coaching staff in charge of tutoring the QBs.”

We went on to write at that time, “Evans being passed on the all-time completions list by his protégé is just fine with him. No one could be happier for Stringer than the man whose mark Stringer just surpassed.”

We continued in the former article, “That is the reason many men elect to coach. Men coach to sate the desire to teach the game to players who, with the proper instruction, will eventually eclipse the coach’s career mark.”

Evans has a new protégé in the works. This one is very special. Evans’s son is among the best QBs at his stage of development we have seen in quite some time.

Cooper Evans, who has been featured (one such time we have linked) by us a few times, is already perfecting his craft at QB Vision out of Nashville, Tennessee in the offseason. Evans’ skill development, together with his frame development, will be fun to track and monitor going forward from here.

Will Cooper turn out as good as the old man? Who knows, he may end up being better.

However, should that occur, Cooper would have definitely done something pretty special. That bar, after all, has been set mighty high.

That is our opinion. Then again, what do we know?

This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!

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