[2] He received Eastern College Athletic Conference weekly honors three times his senior year.
Papas was the first head football coach at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts and filled the post for the 1999 season when the team accumulated a record of 3–5.
[9] Papas was the head football coach at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (BB&N), in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 11 seasons, from 2003 to 2013.
[11] In the fall of 2010, BB&N had 7 alumni playing Ivy League football, the most of any high school in the country.
[16][17] In 2018, Papas was elected to the Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame.
In June 2019, more than 2500 footballers from 43 states attended Elite clinics at Tufts University, Pomona College, and Christopher Columbus High School.