{"id":158828,"date":"2026-02-10T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:16:08","slug":"evans-leaving-miller-football-for-a-dfw-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158828\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans leaving Miller Football for a DFW job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCISD will have to find a replacement for the winning coach in Buccaneers history.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 One of the top football coaches in the Coastal Bend is set to have a new home as Justen Evans is leaving the Miller Buccaneers to take a job in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.<\/p>\n<p>The school board in DFW is expected to approve Evans&#8217; hire later Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Evans leaves as the winningest coach record wise in Miller history. He leaves the area with an 84-36 record between nine seasons with the Bucs and one in Alice. Miller reached the region final three times under his leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evans, a graduate of Moody, says the decision to leave his hometown wasn&#8217;t as easy one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The Coastal Bend is the only thing I&#8217;ve ever known, but it&#8217;s time for something new.&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably one of the top jobs in the area in Miller is now open. And that&#8217;s directly because of Evans. The Bucs were 3-27 in the previous three seasons when he took over in 2017 and hadn&#8217;t had a winning record since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCISD will have to find a replacement for the winning coach in Buccaneers history. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-158828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}