Wherever Rush Propst goes, scandal follows. However, the ever-controversial high school football coach believes that his job should be done with integrity.
The irony in that statement is rich.
Propst, 66, is most famous for his appearance on the MTV reality series ‘Two-A-Days’ back in the early 2000s. To say that he was brutal toward his players would be an understatement. But they won!
Hoover High School fired Propst in 2007 for a few different reasons. First and foremost, he allegedly altered players’ grades so they would be eligible to play. And then it got messy.
Propst married to his high school sweetheart at the time. They had three children.
Not only was he having an affair with the school administrator who helped to fudge the grades AND another teacher at the same time, he had an entire second family in another part of the state.
Propst later headbutted one of his own players during the state playoffs in 2016.
That doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. Propst has been involved with impropriety at every single one of his stops along the way and a more in-depth breakdown of his repeated misconduct is so crazy that it is legitimately hard to believe. And even that doesn’t include the last two years!
Propst threw his headset at a player, cussed out a rival coach and almost went to jail for owing more than $100,000 in alimony payments. The lattermost issue led him to resign from his job at Pell City in Alabama.
This is the short-form version of Propst’s truly wild life. It is impossible to summarize all of his different wrongdoings without writing a novel.
Rush Propst preaches integrity.
The definition of integrity, per the Cambridge Dictionary, is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” Propst is not honest. His moral principles are questionable, at best.
And yet, he has the audacity to lecture others on the topic!
Hoover High School — yes, the same one that was featured on MTV almost two decades ago — recently had its head coach and defensive coordinator resign after a disturbing video leaked from practice. Coaches were physical with players. The now-former head coach humped a player’s face.
Propst was asked about the video, which he has only seen once, and his answer is objectionably hilarious.
If that picture looked like what it was, then that might be over the line.
— Rush Propst
MIGHT?!
Propst continued…
If you coach with integrity, don’t demean kids, you won’t cross that line. I’m not saying you can’t slap them on the butt. I don’t mean you can’t holler at them. I just think that’s the extent of it. You can raise your voice. In the latter years, I cut the cussing out. I don’t cuss kids like I used to.
— Rush Propst
The almost 70-year-old head coach said that times have changed. He used to get pushed and slapped atop his helmet because he “deserved it.” That won’t fly anymore.
It’s just a different style of coaching. At the same time, if there is abuse there, you can’t put up with that. There’s no way you can do that. I’m not saying there is. It’s not for me to judge. … As high school coaches, we have to understand there is a line we can’t cross. You can get to intensity a lot of different ways.
— Rush Propst
Rush Propst, the most infamous high school football coach in America, is encouraging coaches to lead with integrity. It sounds like satire!