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To question Indest, who has been one of the Acadiana area's most successful coaches, is the one of the most asinine things. He's taken every school he's coached at to the playoffs, some that hadn't been in a long time before his arrival and is now taking his alma mater for the first time in 52 years to the state final.

funny how that happens, he tends to go where he knows talent it coming. I mean why move around so much around the area. Abbeville, Kaplan, Carencro, Crowley, Catholic?

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Posted by landmanner

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Posted on 12/3/14 at 4:18 pm to jakedel12

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I mean why move around so much around the area. Abbeville, Kaplan, Carencro, Crowley, Catholic?

A raise? Another challenge? Then finally to his Alma Mater? This is his last stop.

As Brent Indest absorbed the poignancy of the moment Friday night, he was stirred by glimpses of the past intersecting with the possibilities of a special future.

It was an historic occasion — the first time the Panthers had been this far in the playoffs in over 40 years — and Indest couldn’t help reeling it all in.

Indest has the opportunity to bring a state championship to Catholic High for the first time since 1962 when his Panthers meet Calvary Baptist in a state championship game Friday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

Catholic-New Iberia, which went 14-0 in 1962, beat Ferriday 13-0 in Class 1A championship.

“There are always so many hurdles when you talk about a state championship,” Indest said. “I was talking with and thanking our supporters afterward, and it occurred to me as I looked at a lot of them is what makes this so special. I’m home now (at Catholic High).

“Things like that fuel you. Many of the fathers of players are guys that I graduated with and played football with (at Catholic High). Now I’m coaching their kids.”

After stops at Abbeville, Kaplan, Crowley, Carencro and two years at CHSNI, Indest’s teams are 141-68.

Many of those seasons were spent restructuring programs that were once on life support, like the 0-10 team he inherited at Crowley.

State titles are obviously coveted treasure, Indest said, but obtaining one of them has never been an ultimate goal.

“That’s really not something that drives me,” Indest said. “Wherever I’ve coached, it’s never been a football factory or one with an exorbitant budget or an expensive staff.

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Posted by atlee

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Posted on 12/9/14 at 1:36 pm to jakedel12

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funny how that happens, he tends to go where he knows talent it coming. I mean why move around so much around the area. Abbeville, Kaplan, Carencro, Crowley, Catholic?

It's essentially akin to getting a promotion and pay raise at almost each stop, not talent jumping. If that was the case he could have stayed in Carencro the rest of his career.

He began at Abbeville and took over Crowley which had been down but had better tradition and resources than Abbeville and he won there also.

He decided to give college coaching a try and joined Derek Dooley's staff at La. Tech and discovered as good a friends he was with Dooley, college coaching/recruiting wasn't his cup of tea with the time away from home and was able to land the job at Kaplan where he was a friend with the principal.

He made Kaplan better before Carencro, which won Lafayette Parish's first state championship with Kevin Faulk, hired him away. He went from 3A football to the 5A level and reached the Superdome before ultimately getting the chance to return to his alma mater and where was living the whole time in New Iberia.

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