Eight apply for Abbeville High head football coaching job

The search for a new head football coach at Abbeville High School has completed its first stage, which involved accepting applications.
According to Marc Turner, the assistant superintendent of the Vermilion Parish School System, eight applicants submitted their applications by noon on Monday, which was the final day to apply.
Turner stated that he could not release the names of the applicants, and he was unsure of how many of them were certified teachers.
The job became open last week when four-year head coach Roderick Moy was hired as the head football coach at North Vermilion School.
Two names that are circulating as possible replacements for former AHS head coach Roderick Moy are Kaplan assistant football coach Jared Duhon and Lafayette High assistant football coach Mike Richard.
Duhon is an Abbeville High graduate who played football under former AHS head coach Brent Indest.
He has been at Kaplan for a few years and has been the assistant football coach under Kaplan head coach Stephen Lotief and Cory Brodie.
Richard has been at Lafayette High for two years. New head coach Garret Kreamer hired him.
Richard is the offensive line and powerlifting coach at Lafayette High.
Richard, a Carencro High graduate who also played football under Indest,  spent eight seasons (2014-21) at Louisiana-Lafayette and four (2018-21) under former UL football coach Billy Napier. 
Richard followed Napier to the University of Florida, where he helped coach the offensive line.
He then returned to Acadiana and became an offensive line coach at Lafayette High School.