When Texas Tech sophomore J’Koby Williams calls his old junior high coach, Andy Evans, in Beckville, their conversations rarely start with football stats. They talk about life, about character, and about treating people right. And while the 60-year-old coach loves to tell Williams how proud he is, he will be the first to tell you that J’Koby was more than his student. Williams and a handful of other Beckville students quite literally saved his life.

The darkness that nearly swallowed Evans whole arrived on Feb. 21, 2015, when his 18-year-old son Scott died in a one-car accident. Scott had lost control of his Honda Accord, hit a tree, and the car caught fire. Evans, a legendary East Texas coach whose teams had won two state championships, somehow zombied through a miserable 0-10 season tha

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