Q&A: Getting to know Tri-parish football coaches

South Lafourche Coach

Terry Farmer

Favorite Food: BBQ chicken pizza

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be … : I’d be on the floor on the stock market. I love the competition.

When not coaching, you are likely: playing summer league softball or doing a little fishing.

The best thing about being a coach is: Ah, it’s the kids. Staying young with the kids. They motivate me to wake up every day.

Name a coach who inspires you: Houston Nutt. The way he loves the game and has love for his kids, it’s such an inspiration.

Central Lafourche Coach Travis Douglas

Favorite Food: Probably lasagna

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: I’d probably be a police officer. I always wanted to be in public service.

When not coaching, you are likely: playing golf and spending time with my kids.

Are you a good golfer?: During the summer I get pretty good. During football season, I’m terrible.

The best thing about being a coach is: The relationships you get to build with your fellow coaches and the kids.

E.D. White Coach Kyle Lasseigne

Favorite Food: Sushi. I get sushi a lot.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: I was in medical school for 3 years, so I’d probably be a doctor.

What kind of doctor: I’d probably have a family practice.

When not coaching, you are likely: cutting grass.

The best thing about being a coach is: seeing kids develop from when they start the program in the 9th grade to when they graduate, seeing the changes in their personalities as they grow from boys to men.

Thibodaux Coach Chris Dugas

Favorite Food: I am a boiled crawfish lover.

How do you like them cooked?: I like them spicy. And I like all of the fixings, too, potatoes, corn, everything.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: a standup comedian. … That’s my calling.

When not coaching, you are likely: fishing. I love to fish. Me and my dad fish almost every weekend.

The best thing about being a coach is: being able to stay in the game. I love this game and I love being around the kids, the other coaches and this is a way for me to get Friday nights to still live on for me.

South Terrebonne Coach Richard Curlin

Favorite Food: Chicken and dumplings with cornbread

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: working in the construction business or in the oilfield. Those are the only things I’ve ever done besides for coaching.

How does it feel to be a hall of famer at the school you coach?: Unbelievable and honored.

When not coaching, you are likely: fishing or playing golf.

The best thing about being a coach is: The players. Seeing the maturity in the players.

Ellender Coach Terry Washington

Favorite Food: Shrimp

How cooked?: It doesn’t matter. Shrimp etouffee, saut/ed shrimp, really anything. I just love ’em.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: I graduated from college with a degree in business management and I never used it, so I’d probably be in business doing something or another.

When not coaching, you are likely: out in the yard doing some work. I’m always working out in the yard. That’s become my other hobby.

The best thing about being a coach is: that I can stay young. I can still act like a kid and be around these young men. It keeps that hunger in me and keeps the kid in me.

Vandy Coach Laury Dupont

Favorite Food: Fried chicken

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: Something with golf

Hobbies outside of coaching: Golf, I try to play once a week during the offseason

Coach you model your style after: Steve Spurrier

Terrebonne Coach Gary Hill

Favorite Food: Crawfish

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: in charter fishing

When not coaching, you are likely: either fishing, playing with my little girl or spending time with my family.

The best thing about being a coach is: Getting to be in a sport to help shape a lot of the things I believe in life and trying to translate those things into the kids today.

Have any coaches inspired you?: I like Bobby Knight and Dean Smith from when I was in basketball. Football-wise, I always liked Bill Parcells and more recently, Urban Meyer and Dan Mullen.

HLB Coach Ben Powell

Favorite Food: Lasagna

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: teaching.

When not coaching, you are likely: still doing something football related. Football is my hobby. It’s 24/7 for me.

What are some things you do football-related to stay involved?: I might watch film, search the Internet for different things. Just anything to stay involved in the game and what’s going on. I just love it.

The best thing about being a coach is: interaction with the players and having an impact on young people.

Covenant Christian Coach Blyght Wunstell

Favorite Food: Red beans and rice

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: getting into some type of law enforcement job or getting into some type of law school to try and be a lawyer.

When not coaching, you are likely: fishing, even though I don’t do it much. I like to play golf, although I don’t do it much.

Why don’t you do them much?: I just don’t have the time. Whether it’s football or spending what little free time I have with my family, I’m always occupied.

The best thing about being a coach is: influencing young men’s lives and developing them into good fathers and good husbands and making a positive impact on them.

Houma Christian Coach Chuck Battaglia

Favorite Food: Shrimp Po-boy

From where: Adventure Truck Stop in Thibodaux. They are delicious there.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: starting my own lawn care business or working offshore.

When not coaching, you are likely: spending time with my family and then anything dealing with the outdoors.

The best thing about being a coach is: seeing the impact you make on the kids, not even on the field, but in their lives.

Berwick Coach Craig Brodie

Favorite Food: Pizza

How topped?: I’ll eat it with just about anything except olives

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: the only thing I ever thought about doing besides for this was being a lawyer, so probably that.

When not coaching, you are likely: playing golf or spending time with my family.

The best thing about being a coach is: watching kids you learn to love develop and grow up.

Patterson Coach Tommy Minton

Favorite Food: Steak

What type and how cooked?: Rib eye and medium rare.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: probably a salesman in the oilfield. That’s what the rest of my family does.

When not coaching, you are likely: still doing something football related. Football is my hobby. I love working around my yard and my pool, but other than that, I’m doing some type of football-related stuff.

The best thing about being a coach is: dealing with the kids. When you take a kid as a 14-year-old and you see him as an 18-year-old senior to see how far he’s come physically and as a young man.

Morgan City Coach Brandon Nowlin

Favorite Food: Crawfish etouffee on top of catfish

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: selling insurance or something in sales.

When not coaching, you are likely: watching other sports. I enjoy that. I also enjoy playing golf and being around my family.

The best thing about being a coach is: being able to influence young men so they can succeed in their lives outside of the game.

Central Catholic Coach David Fuhrer

Favorite Food: Steak

How cooked?: Cooked rare, or better yet, not cooked rare, just not cooked. Almost still able to walk in the pasture rare.

If you wouldn’t be a football coach, you would be: in the oilfield. I wanted to do that out of college, but that was when it was a downtime in that industry.

When not coaching, you are likely: with my 5-year-old little girl. She is pretty much my hobby. When I have free time, I’m with my family.

The best thing about being a coach is: watching kids grow and mature.