Broc Prejean sends email to VC community announcing he will not be returning next year

On Tuesday at around 10:30 a.m., VC head coach Broc Prejean emailed the Vermilion Catholic Community to announce he will not return next school year.
He gave the reason he is not returning in the email was to spend more time with his family.
The Meridional reached out to Prejean on Tuesday afternoon regarding the email, but he declined to comment at this time.
Prejean is the most successful head football coach in VC history, compiling a 60-14 record from 2020 to 2025.
In 2024, he guided VC to a 14-0 season and a Division IV Select State Championship, earning statewide Coach of the Year honors.
VC defeated Ouachita Christian 33-21 to secure its first state title since 2013.
Since 2022, the Eagles have held the No. 1 seed in the Division IV Select playoffs and finished as state runners-up that year.
In his final season in 2025, the Eagles started 1-4 but secured a playoff berth, ultimately falling to Kentwood in the first round.
Prejean, a 2006 VC graduate, is expected to remain at the school through the end of the year and will continue as boys’ golf coach.
Prejean is the second football coach to depart after winning a state title. Last year, offensive line coach John Thompson left to become the head coach at Kaplan High School.

Here is a copy of the email that Coach Prejean sent to the VC Community.

To the Vermilion Catholic Community,

I have been honored to live out a dream of mine in serving this community over the past 6 years as a coach, as a teacher, and as an alumnus of a school that has been and will continue to be home for me. My parents blessed me with the opportunity to walk the hallways of Vermilion Catholic and it is something I have never taken for granted. The opportunity to be able to give back to its traditions has been an incredibly rewarding period of my life. This place is a special place, and what it means to me on a personal level is something that words would fail to explain.
After considerable prayer and discernment, I have made the decision that I will not be returning to Vermilion Catholic for the 2026-2027 school year and it is a decision that I am equally as prayerful that people will understand and support.
I am so incredibly grateful that I was afforded this chance to continue to grow professionally, personally, and spiritually in this community. I am grateful for the tireless support we have received from our administration, our faculty, our community, our supporters, our fans, our families, but most especially from our players and our coaches who have lived it, breathed it, and walked the journey with us.
I try to remind our players as often as I can that this entire life we live is about the relationships that you are blessed to have come into your life and there are so many that I have been rewarded with in my time here at Vermilion Catholic, and rest assured that has never been lost on me. I acknowledge that this decision will come with some ‘why’s’ and I can fully appreciate that question.
My answer to those ‘whys’ is that I want to focus on those relationships that I talk so passionately to our players about. If you asked me at 35 what my number one priority was in my life, I likely would have responded with winning a state championship but if you asked me today, what I can tell is that I am far more proud of the answers I would give you… family, and family, and family. So to answer the question of ‘why’, I would tell you that it is because of my own personal ‘why’, which is my family - my beautiful wife, my stepson, my nieces, my parents, my brother, my sister in law. I want to find more opportunities to be fully present with them the way I have been for 20 years on the athletic fields. I want them to get the best version of me that they can, day in and day out. That is why I have made this decision, solely and completely.
I look forward to having those conversations that are coming with so many people who I respect and have been a part of this journey but I felt it was important to communicate this initial message of gratitude and appreciation.
Vermilion Catholic truly is a home to me and that will not change moving forward in life. This community has rewarded me with the greatest blessings and opportunities I have ever received and it has helped me grow tremendously as a person, and as a man. I am forever grateful and forever an Eagle.
Broc J. Prejean