RUSTON ? Louisiana Tech head coach Derek Dooley announced Friday the hiring of former Crowley High School head coach Brent Indest as an offensive assistant on the Bulldogs staff.

Indest?s hiring is pending the approval of the Louisiana Tech Athletic Council and the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System.

?I have been following Brent?s success since the first time I met him seven years ago,? Dooley said. ?He has a tremendous ability to connect with young men and lead them to do things beyond what they ever dreamed. I am confident his energy and enthusiasm will have the same effect on our program at Tech.?

Indest recorded an 83-43 record during eight years at Abbeville High School and three years at Crowley, leading his teams to five district titles and the state playoffs nine times.

The four-time district coach of the year recipient registered nine winnings seasons in 11 years at two schools whose football programs were both on life support prior to his taking the head coaching jobs.

When Indest arrived at Crowley High School three years ago, the Gents program was not in good shape, having posted a 0-10 mark the previous season. Three years later, Indest guided the same program to a 10-0 regular season mark, gaining him the respect statewide that earned him the Louisiana Class 3A Coach of the Year award.

Indest was 22-11 in three seasons at Crowley.

?I?m excited and honored to be a part of this great university,? Indest said. ?I look forward to working with Coach Dooley and this coaching staff to bring Tech football to the top of the Western Athletic Conference.?

Indest, who was named the District 5-4A Coach of the Year and the District 7-3A Coach of the Year at Abbeville and the District 5-3A Coach of the Year twice at Crowley, joined an Abbeville program in 1996 that was 1-9 the previous season.
He promptly won four games in his first year at Abbeville, including defeating a Crowley team that advanced to the state finals that season.

He took Abbeville to the state playoffs seven years while capturing the District 6-3A title in 1997 and the District 5-4A title in 1999.

Following the 2002 season at Abbeville, Indest once against accepted the challenge of rebuilding a struggling Crowley program that had won only eight games in five years.

He led the Gents to a 4-6 mark in the first year before winning the District 7-3A title in 2005 with a 7-4 record. Indest?s 2005 team snapped Notre Dame?s 40-plus consecutive game district winning streak dating back more than five years.

This past season, Indest led Crowley to an 11-1 mark and another win over the eventual top-seeded Notre Dame team, earning him three Coach of the Year awards (District 5-3A, the all-Acadiana Team and the Louisiana Class 3A state team).

Indest started his high school coaching career as the secondary coach at Catholic High School in 1990 before working as an assistant at Abbeville from 1991 through 1995.

Indest earned his bachelor?s degree in health and physical education from Southwestern Louisiana University (now UL-Lafayette) in 1990.

He is married to the former Tina Works and the couple has a daughter, Jessica.