re: What happened to Evangel football?

Heard an interview with Dunn a while back. He talked about how the first thing he did when he took over was to start painting/ keeping up the field and to upgrade uniforms.
That and they played a fun style of ball that nobody else was playing made kids want to go there. Add in great relationships with rich people and boom you have a factory.
I understand that they pissed off a lot of those influential families and they obviously pizzas off the LHSAA who literally ruined high school football in the state for the near sole purpose of taking them down.

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This is true. Their student population has shrunk, and more money has flooded to Calvary. Like previous posters said, public schools in the area have gotten a lot of that talent back as well. Most of the boosters who paid those scholarships aren't there anymore.
All things considered, Evangel's campus is pretty crappy looking, football field is not well kept up, and it isn't a nice place anymore. I've heard they have 2-3 years left to stay open if they can't get an influx of capital.

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That's precisely what happened to Redemptorist in Baton Rouge. Population shifted after Zachary/Central broke away from EBR. RHS was too deep in NBR territory to pull from South BR. School hemoragged money and couldn't keep up staff/facilities to the point they were too far gone

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They got to the top and had the same realization Craig Kilborn did.

“I achieved my goals, and it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.”

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Hence why J.T. will leave his last game in a pine box…