Interviews underway for new head football coach at Kaplan High

KAPLAN — The interviews for the next head football coach at Kaplan High School have already begun, despite the job still being open until noon on Friday.
As of Thursday, six candidates had applied for the head football coaching job. The school district did not release the names of the six. Interviews began at 11 a.m. on Thursday. 
One of those six names who interviewed on Thursday is a parish native who has coached at Vermilion Catholic for many years.
VC assistant football coach John Thompson confirmed he applied for the head football job at Kaplan High School. 
Thompson graduated from VC in 1997 and signed a football scholarship to attend South Carolina.  He coached under Ossie Blaize and VC head coach Broc Prejean. He was a big part of VC winning the state title last season. 
For the past couple of years, Thompson was also the head boys basketball coach and led his team to the playoffs.
One unconfirmed names who applied for the KHS job is former Abbeville High assistant football coach Doug Guillory.
Guillory was an assistant coach at Abbeville under Coach Roderick Moy was at Abbeville High.  Today, he is an assistant coach at Oakdale High School. Guillory is also familiar with the Wing-T offense, an offense the Kaplan football program has run for several years.
The new Kaplan head football coach is expected to be named as early as Friday or by Monday.