John T. Curtis Jr.

As of the 2022 season, J.T. Curtis Jr. is currently the winningest high school football coach in Louisiana history, the winningest active high school football coach nationally, and the second-winningest high school football coach all-time nationally behind only John McKissick, who won 620 games in 63 seasons at Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina. He achieved his 600th win, only the second coach in the nation to ever do so, with a 37-16 win over Archbishop Shaw High School in 2021.

In 2012, the John Curtis football program was named the national champion by five national polls after going an undefeated 14-0 and defeating Evangel Christian Academy of Shreveport, Louisiana 35-13 in the LHSAA Class 2A state championship game. It was the first ever national title for Curtis and the Patriots football program and the first by a team from Louisiana since West Monroe High School was named national champions in 2000, and they are also the only team from Louisiana to receive the honor since. In 2013, the Patriots football program was forced to forfeit 20 wins from 2013 to 2015, including their 2013 state championship, due to sanctions by the LHSAA around the eligibility of now former JCCS football player Willie Allen. Curtis and the school have maintained to date that there were no improprieties regarding Allen.

In his storied career, Curtis has coached 14 players who played in the NFL including Joe McKnight, Malachi Dupre, Duke Riley, Kenny Young, and Danny Wimprine among others. He has also coached dozens of high school All-Americans and players who went on to compete on the college level. He also had at least one player named first team all-state every year from 1975 to 2019, a state record. The Patriots won five consecutive state championships, the only team in Louisiana to ever do so, from 2004 to 2008. They have also won four consecutive titles once (1996-99) and three consecutive titles twice (1979-81, 1983-85).

Curtis is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Curtis graduated from East Jefferson High School in Metairie, Louisiana in 1966, where he was an all-state and All-American offensive lineman for the school's football team. Curtis attended the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship for three years before transferring to Louisiana Christian University in 1968, where he continued to play football.

Curtis' father, John T. Curtis, Sr., founded John Curtis Christian School in River Ridge, Louisiana in 1962 where he was named head football coach there in 1969 at the age of 22. In his first season, the Patriots football team finished the year 0-10 and scored only two touchdowns the entire season. The following season the Patriots made the playoffs and by 1973 they had their first appearance in the LHSAA quarterfinals. In 1975, Curtis led his team to the school's first football state championship, defeating Notre Dame High School of Crowley, Louisiana by a score of 13-12.

John T. "J.T." Curtis Jr. (born 1947) is a high school football coach for John Curtis Christian School. He is most known for his 618 wins, which is the most wins in Louisiana history and the second most wins all-time in US history as a coach. In 2010, he was inducted to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and in 2015, he was inducted to the National High School Hall of Fame. As of the conclusion of the 2022 season, his coaching record stands stands as 618 wins, 76 losses, and 6 ties in 54 seasons.