Louisiana prep football landscape includes whopping number of new head coaches in 2017
It was an unusually active year of turnover on the high school football coaching front in Louisiana.
In all, there are 65 new head coaches among the 295 schools set to participate in football this year.
One school (South Cameron) has yet to name a new coach. Once that move takes place, it will complete a roughly 25 percent turnover of the head coaches in Louisiana from one season to the next.
| 2017 LOUISIANA PREP FOOTBALL HEAD COACHING CHANGES | ||||||
| SCHOOL | PREVIOUS COACH | NEW COACH | PREVIOUS POSITION | |||
| ARCHBISHOP SHAW | Scott Bairnsfather | Tommy Connors | Shaw defensive coordinator | |||
| BASTROP | Marcus Yanez | Adrian Burnette | Bastrop offensive coordinator | |||
| BELAIRE | Claude Coleman | Kevin Jackson | Belaire assistant | |||
| BLOCK | Bo Sproles | Josh Loy | Natchez (MS) offensive coordinator | |||
| BONNABEL | Reggie Rogers | Daryl Thomas | Pope John Paul II teacher | |||
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON | Kendrick Law | Chris Thomas | Mansfield assistant | |||
| BRUSLY | Marc Brown | Hoff Schooler | Ruston defensive coordinator | |||
| CALVARY BAPTIST | John Bachman | Rodney Guin | Calvary Baptist assistant | |||
| CAPITOL | Chris Brown | Corey Brumfield | Southern Lab assistant | |||
| CARENCRO | Rip Eveland | Tony Courville | Teurlings asst head coach/special teams coordinator | |||
| CATHOLIC-BR | Dale Weiner | Gabe Fertitta | Catholic-BR offensive coordinator | |||
| CHRISTIAN LIFE | Ben Palmer | Dexter Alexander | Woodlawn assistant | |||
| CROWLEY | Josh Fontenot | Jeptha Wall | Crowley defensive coordinator | |||
| D’ARBONNE WOODS | Brian Fine | David Feaster | former Parkway head coach | |||
| DENHAM SPRINGS | Dru Nettles | Bill Conides | St. Stanislaus head coach | |||
| DELTA CHARTER | Zach Rogel | Blake Wheeler | Rayville offensive coordinator | |||
| DUTCHTOWN | Benny Saia | Guy Mistretta | Livonia head coach | |||
| EAST IBERVILLE | Damieon Mills | Ron LeJeune | Plaquemine offensive coordinator | |||
| EAST JEFFERSON | Marc Martin | Frank Allelo | East Jefferson interim head coach | |||
| FRANKLIN PARISH | Barry Sebren | Whitney McCartney | Jena offensive coordinator | |||
| FERRIDAY | Dwight Woods | Stanley Smith | Franklin Parish defensive coordinator | |||
| GRACE KING | Larry Lala | Bryant Holmes | Bonnabel defensive coordinator | |||
| GREEN OAKS | Curtis Evans | Terrance Isaac | A+ Academy (TX) head coach | |||
| HAMILTON CHRISTIAN | Mark Delaney | Vaughn Eggleston | Sam Houston head coach | |||
| HAMMOND | Cecil Thomas | Steve Jones | Amite assistant coach | |||
| HUNTINGTON | Marvin Harris | Stephen Dennis | Northwood-SV defensive coordinator | |||
| IOWA | Sean Richard | Tommy Johns | Iowa defensive coordinator | |||
| KIPP | Luke Strattner | Corey McCloud | McDonogh 35 assistant | |||
| LAKESIDE | Jason Martin | Jason McClendon | Northland Christian (TX) offensive coordinator | |||
| LIVONIA | Guy Mistretta | Marc Brown | Brusly head coach | |||
| LOREAUVILLE | Trent Delahoussaye | Rhett Peltier | Loreauville offensive coordinator | |||
| MENARD | Joel Desselle | Chris Gatlin | Insurance business | |||
| MENTORSHIP ACADEMY | Keidrin Davis | Chris Bland | Mentorship Academy defensive coordinator | |||
| MORGAN CITY | Scott Tregle | Eric Howard | DeRidder defensive coordinator | |||
| NATCHITOCHES-CENTRAL | Brandon Helms | Tommy Moore | Natchitoches-Central offensive coordinator | |||
| NORTHSIDE | Anthony Hicks | John Simmons | Northside assistant | |||
| OPELOUSAS | Dwight Collins | Doug Guillory | Rayne defensive assistant | |||
| PARKWAY | David Feaster | Neil May | Parkway defensive coordinator | |||
| PATTERSON | Marvin Dantzler | Ryan Stewart | Patterson defensive coordinator | |||
| PEARL RIVER | Mike Labourdette | Jarrod Danford | Pearl River offensive coordinator | |||
| PICKERING | Johnny Cryer | George Thomas | Pickering assistant coach | |||
| PINEVILLE | Robbie Martin | Dennis Dunn | former Louisiana College head coach | |||
| PORT ALLEN | Nick Mitchell | Don Gibson | Tulsa, OK high school head coach | |||
| PORT BARRE | Kenneth Mistric | Craig Stevens | Port Barre defensive coordinator | |||
| RED RIVER | Scott Hales | John Bachman | Red River assistant; (Calvary Baptist head coach) | |||
| RIVERDALE | Nick Brumfield | Willie Brooks | De La Salle linebackers coach | |||
| RINGGOLD | Dedric Smith | Chris Lachney | Riverside defensive coordinator | |||
| RIVERSIDE | Bill Stubbs | NO COACH AS OF PRESS TIME | ||||
| ROSEPINE | Danny Cain | Johnny Cryer | Pickering head coach | |||
| RUSTON | Brad Laird | Jerrod Baugh | Ruston offensive coordinator | |||
| SAINT JOHN-PLAQUEMINE | Woody Cagnolatti | James Piker | Catholic-PC assistant | |||
| SAINT MICHAEL | Paul Varnado | Justin Hutchinson | Denham Springs assistant | |||
| SAINT MARTIN’S | Scott Simpson | John McDonell (2017) | Georgia State senior offensive analyst | |||
| SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS | John White | Hutch Gonzales | Fontainebleau assistant | |||
| SOUTH CAMERON | Stephen Wiggins | NO COACH AS OF PRESS TIME | ||||
| SOUTH LAFOURCHE | Brandon Nowlin | Blake Forsythe | H.L. Bourgeois assistant | |||
| STERLINGTON | Jason Thompson | Lee Doty | Sterlington defensive coordinator | |||
| SOUTH PLAQUEMINES | Ferrante Dominique | Lyle Fitte | South Plaquemines assistant | |||
| TEURLINGS CATHOLIC | Sonny Charpentier | Dane Charpentier | Cecilia offensive coordinator | |||
| VERMILION CATHOLIC | Ossie Blaize | Brady Thomas | ULL offensive analyst | |||
| VIDALIA | Jeff Hancock | Dee Faircloth | former Vidalia head coach | |||
| WALKER | Brandon Lawley | Lester Ricard | Hahnville offensive coordinator | |||
| WEST OUACHITA | Joey Pender | Matt Middleton | Prairie View Academy (MAIS) head coach | |||
| WHITE CASTLE | Lamar Thomas | Aaron Meyer | Washington-Marion assistant | |||
| WINNFIELD | Andy Pyles | Lyn Bankston | Louisiana College head softball | |||
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