Rush Propst
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Rush Propst is the head coach of football
at Colquitt County High School
in Moultrie, Georgia
. He is the former head coach
of the team at Hoover High School
in Hoover, Alabama
. Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV
series Two-A-Days
, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover team.
He has helped over 40 players receive college scholarships, including players such as Chad Jackson
(Florida
), John Parker Wilson
(Alabama
), Ryan Pugh (Auburn
) and Cornelius Williams (Troy
). At the conclusion of the 2010 season, his 22-year head coaching record stood at 207–70 (.747 win rate).
where he graduated from Ohatchee High School in 1976. Propst played high school football for Coach Ragan Clark, whose son Bill was later the head coach at Prattville High School, a Hoover rival, for many years. Ohatchee was 27-5-1 in Propst's three years as a starter at wide receiver
and defensive back
, with Propst earning All-County
recognition as a senior. In addition to football, he was a two-year starter on the basketball team and won the District 100-yard dash his senior year although Ohatchee did not have a track program that year. Propst attended college at Jacksonville State University
where he was a non-scholarship member of the JSU football team in 1976-1977. He graduated from Jacksonville State in 1981 with a degree in Physical Education. In 1986, he married Tammy Cox, with whom he has three children.
, Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia
, and Ashville High School in Ashville, Alabama
. Propst was eventually promoted to head football coach at Ashville High, serving from 1989 to 1993. He then moved on to Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama
from 1994-1996 before being hired by Alba High School in Bayou La Batre, Alabama
in 1997. In 1998, Propst coached Alma Bryant High School
, the school that resulted from Alba's merger with the high school in Grand Bay, Alabama
. At Alma Bryant High School
he amassed a 12–2 record.
He was hired at Hoover in 1999, where he coached for nine years, winning 110 games and five state championships. Propst's Hoover team was one of the top-ranked teams in the United States
over much of the first decade of the new millennium, winning Alabama High School Athletic Association
Class 6A state championships in five of the first six seasons including four consecutive titles from 2002 to 2005 (missing out on 7 straight after losses in the championship game to Daphne
in 2001 and Prattville
in 2006). During Propst's tenure, Hoover was repeatedly ranked in the nation's top-25 polls, finishing as the #16 team in the nation in 2003, #4 in the nation in 2004, #8 in the nation in 2005, and ranked #1 entering the 2006 season by Sports Illustrated
, USA Today
and the National Prep Football Poll. Propst's base salary at Hoover was $
100,678.
On January 30, 2008, Propst was named head coach at Colquitt County High School. When Les Koenning
left the University of South Alabama
in January 2009, head coach Joey Jones interviewed Propst to fill the vacant position as the offensive coordinator
. After community uproar over the interview, Propst decided to stay at Colquitt County.
In just his second year of coaching at Colquitt County, Propst took a team that had finished 2-8 in 2007 to an 11-3 season and the state semifinals in 2009. In 2010, he led Colquitt County to the GHSA Class 5A State Championship Game.
Jerry Browning, Propst's immediate superior, resigned over numerous differences between himself and principal Richard Bishop, who was a teammate of Propst on the football team at Jacksonville State University
. Browning expressed concerns over reports that grades for certain athletes had been altered to make them eligible for college play
, and made those concerns known to Hoover City Schools Superintendent Andy Craig in a meeting in April. Bishop originally announced that there was nothing to be concerned about, but Craig overruled Bishop and announced that a full investigation would be carried out, to be headed by former federal judge Sam C. Pointer, Jr.
Propst also faced charges having to do with his personal life, specifically that he engaged in extramarital affairs. The topic was the focus of considerable discussion on the Paul Finebaum
syndicated sports talk radio
show, where Hunter Ford, a reporter for The Hoover Gazette
newspaper, reported the rumors. During those discussions, Ford was fired, live and on the air, by Gazette general manager John Junkin. (Ironically, Ford had previously advocated in a Gazette column that Propst be hired to fill the then-vacant head coach position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
). The Gazette went out of business about five weeks later.
Ford, who also worked for another suburban weekly, The Western Star in nearby Bessemer
, went to work for that newspaper full-time after his firing from The Hoover Gazette. In his column in the July 4, 2007 edition of The Western Star, Ford reported that a number of sources, none of which would allow their name to be used, said that Propst's alleged affairs also included three children born out of wedlock. The following week, The Western Star printed an apology for allowing Ford to print these allegations in their paper, though it did not specifically retract the charges. Propst continued to deny the allegations, which have yet to be confirmed by legal records or by anyone who will allow reporters to quote them by name.
But on July 28, 2007, The Birmingham News
went public with the allegations when it published a letter from attorneys for Bishop to the Hoover Board of Education. The letter was a result of the board voting to not renew Bishop's contract as principal, an act which garnered widespread coverage by local news media. In the letter by Bishop's attorneys, which The News obtained through a public-records request, the attorneys state that Browning told Bishop that Propst "had a separate family and led a completely separate life," and that Bishop was told by Craig not to investigate the matter. The letter further alleges that Propst, "while on a school site visit in Houston, Texas
, slept with a young teacher from Hoover High School," and also that Propst had carried on a separate affair with an official at Hoover High. Propst's attorney denied the allegations.
Pointer completed his investigation in late September, and after considerable debate over several sessions (and public pressure from numerous public figures, including Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos
), the Hoover Board of Education voted 4-1 to release the report through several sources, including the board's website. Among the findings were that Propst's bank records indicated support for a "second family" in Pell City, Alabama
, but the incidents regarding grade-changing were largely caused by an assistant principal (with whom, the report indicated, Propst had an affair) and an administrator.
Propst came under further scrutiny when Hanceville
High School complained to the Alabama High School Athletic Association
that a former player of theirs, Tristan Purifoy, did not transfer properly to Hoover High and was therefore ineligible. On October 23, 2007, the AHSAA ruled that Purifoy was indeed ineligible, and that the Bucs would have to forfeit all games in which Purifoy played. The investigation resulted in the forfeiture of four games, including a 1-0 loss to crosstown rival Spain Park High School
, the first loss to the Jaguars in the history of the teams' rivalry. Despite the forfeits, the Bucs finished the regular season with a 4-5 record and qualified for the AHSAA 6A playoffs. However, in Propst's last game as Hoover's head coach, they lost in the third round to another crosstown rival Vestavia Hills 21-17, a game considered by many Alabama sportswriters to be the biggest rivalry in the state. His team finished the season with an on-field record of 10-2 (6-6 including the four forfeit losses).
outlines the steps to build a successful gridiron program, including the preparation and responsibilities of a coaching staff including the importance of building a booster club
.
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
at Colquitt County High School
Colquitt County High School
Colquitt County High School is a public high school located in Moultrie, Georgia, USA. The school is part of the Colquitt County School District which serves Colquitt County, Georgia.-Sports:The following sports are played at CCHS:*Baseball*Basketball...
in Moultrie, Georgia
Moultrie, Georgia
Moultrie is the county seat and largest city of Colquitt County and the third largest in Southwest Georgia behind Thomasville and Albany. As of 2009, Moultrie's population is 15,199 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 6.07 percent....
. He is the former head coach
Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...
of the team at Hoover High School
Hoover High School (Alabama)
Hoover High School is a public high school in Hoover, Alabama, USA, serving grades 9-12. It was built as a replacement for W. A. Berry High School. It is currently one of the two International Baccalaureate schools in the Greater Birmingham Area...
in Hoover, Alabama
Hoover, Alabama
Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the...
. Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
series Two-A-Days
Two-A-Days
Two-A-Days is a show on the United States cable television channel MTV. The show chronicled the lives of teens at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama, a suburb of nearby Birmingham...
, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover team.
He has helped over 40 players receive college scholarships, including players such as Chad Jackson
Chad Jackson
-New England Patriots:On the first day of the 2006 NFL Draft, the Patriots traded draft picks with the Green Bay Packers to move up sixteen places in the second round to select Jackson, giving up a third-round pick acquired in a trade...
(Florida
Florida Gators football
The Florida Gators football team represents the University of Florida in the sport of American football. The Florida Gators compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference...
), John Parker Wilson
John Parker Wilson
John Parker Wilson is an American football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. college football at the University of Alabama, he went undrafted during the 2009 NFL Draft, before signing with the Falcons as a free agent.-Freshman:After leading Hoover High School to...
(Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football
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), Ryan Pugh (Auburn
Auburn Tigers football
Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...
) and Cornelius Williams (Troy
Troy Trojans football
The Troy Trojans football program represents Troy University, Alabama, in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A, of which it has been a member since 2001...
). At the conclusion of the 2010 season, his 22-year head coaching record stood at 207–70 (.747 win rate).
Personal life
Propst is a native of Ohatchee, AlabamaOhatchee, Alabama
Ohatchee is a town in Calhoun County in Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 1,215. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
where he graduated from Ohatchee High School in 1976. Propst played high school football for Coach Ragan Clark, whose son Bill was later the head coach at Prattville High School, a Hoover rival, for many years. Ohatchee was 27-5-1 in Propst's three years as a starter at wide receiver
Wide receiver
A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
and defensive back
Defensive back
In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...
, with Propst earning All-County
Calhoun County, Alabama
Calhoun County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of John C. Calhoun, famous member of the United States Senate from South Carolina. As of 2010 the population was 118,572. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area...
recognition as a senior. In addition to football, he was a two-year starter on the basketball team and won the District 100-yard dash his senior year although Ohatchee did not have a track program that year. Propst attended college at Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University is a regional public coeducational university located in Jacksonville, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in four academic units leading to Bachelor's, Master's, and Education Specialist degrees, in addition to continuing and...
where he was a non-scholarship member of the JSU football team in 1976-1977. He graduated from Jacksonville State in 1981 with a degree in Physical Education. In 1986, he married Tammy Cox, with whom he has three children.
Coaching career
Propst took his first coaching position as a student assistant at Ohatchee in 1978, the year they won their only state championship. He also served as an assistant coach for eight years at Cleburne County High School in Heflin, AlabamaHeflin, Alabama
Heflin is a city in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 3,002. The city is the county seat of Cleburne County.-History:...
, Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia
Canton, Georgia
Canton is a city in and the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 22,958.-Geography:Canton is located at ....
, and Ashville High School in Ashville, Alabama
Ashville, Alabama
Ashville is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States part of the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical Area. Its population was 2,260 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town. This town is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Pell City. According to the 2005 U.S....
. Propst was eventually promoted to head football coach at Ashville High, serving from 1989 to 1993. He then moved on to Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama
Eufaula, Alabama
Eufaula is a city in Barbour County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 13,908.-Geography:Eufaula is located at 31°53'21.732" North, 85°9'13.586" West ....
from 1994-1996 before being hired by Alba High School in Bayou La Batre, Alabama
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
Bayou La Batre is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. At the 2000 census, the population was 2,313. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,725....
in 1997. In 1998, Propst coached Alma Bryant High School
Alma Bryant High School
Alma Bryant High School is an Alabama high school located in Irvington, Alabama, United States on State Highway 188, midway between Grand Bay, Alabama and Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The school was formed in 1998 by combining Alba High School and Mobile County High School . The school was named for...
, the school that resulted from Alba's merger with the high school in Grand Bay, Alabama
Grand Bay, Alabama
Grand Bay is a census-designated place in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. The population was 3,918 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
. At Alma Bryant High School
Alma Bryant High School
Alma Bryant High School is an Alabama high school located in Irvington, Alabama, United States on State Highway 188, midway between Grand Bay, Alabama and Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The school was formed in 1998 by combining Alba High School and Mobile County High School . The school was named for...
he amassed a 12–2 record.
He was hired at Hoover in 1999, where he coached for nine years, winning 110 games and five state championships. Propst's Hoover team was one of the top-ranked teams in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
over much of the first decade of the new millennium, winning Alabama High School Athletic Association
Alabama High School Athletic Association
The Alabama High School Athletic Association , based in Montgomery, is the agency which oversees interscholastic athletic programs for public schools in Alabama....
Class 6A state championships in five of the first six seasons including four consecutive titles from 2002 to 2005 (missing out on 7 straight after losses in the championship game to Daphne
Daphne High School
Daphne High School is a secondary school located in Daphne, Alabama. The school, which serves grades 9-12, is a part of the Baldwin County Public Schools district. Students at the school live in the city of Daphne and its surrounding unincorporated areas and the city of Loxley...
in 2001 and Prattville
Prattville High School
Prattville High School, formerly Autauga County High School, is a high school in Prattville, Alabama and forms part of the Autauga County School System...
in 2006). During Propst's tenure, Hoover was repeatedly ranked in the nation's top-25 polls, finishing as the #16 team in the nation in 2003, #4 in the nation in 2004, #8 in the nation in 2005, and ranked #1 entering the 2006 season by Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
, USA Today
USA Today
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and the National Prep Football Poll. Propst's base salary at Hoover was $
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
100,678.
On January 30, 2008, Propst was named head coach at Colquitt County High School. When Les Koenning
Les Koenning, Jr.
Les Koenning, Jr. is the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs college football team.-Coaching career:...
left the University of South Alabama
South Alabama Jaguars football
The South Alabama Jaguars football program, established in 2009, will be a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I FBS and the Sun Belt Conference in 2013.-History:...
in January 2009, head coach Joey Jones interviewed Propst to fill the vacant position as the offensive coordinator
Offensive coordinator
An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of a gridiron football team who is in charge of the offense. Generally, along with his defensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach...
. After community uproar over the interview, Propst decided to stay at Colquitt County.
In just his second year of coaching at Colquitt County, Propst took a team that had finished 2-8 in 2007 to an 11-3 season and the state semifinals in 2009. In 2010, he led Colquitt County to the GHSA Class 5A State Championship Game.
Controversy
During his tenure at Hoover, Propst was a frequent target of critics. But in June 2007, the criticism became more vocal and more formal when HHS athletic directorAthletic director
An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...
Jerry Browning, Propst's immediate superior, resigned over numerous differences between himself and principal Richard Bishop, who was a teammate of Propst on the football team at Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University is a regional public coeducational university located in Jacksonville, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in four academic units leading to Bachelor's, Master's, and Education Specialist degrees, in addition to continuing and...
. Browning expressed concerns over reports that grades for certain athletes had been altered to make them eligible for college play
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
, and made those concerns known to Hoover City Schools Superintendent Andy Craig in a meeting in April. Bishop originally announced that there was nothing to be concerned about, but Craig overruled Bishop and announced that a full investigation would be carried out, to be headed by former federal judge Sam C. Pointer, Jr.
Sam C. Pointer, Jr.
Sam Clyde Pointer Jr. was an attorney in Birmingham, Alabama and a United States federal judge for the Northern District of Alabama from 1970 to 2000. He was a noted figure in complex multidistrict class-action litigation.-Early life, education, and career:Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Pointer...
Propst also faced charges having to do with his personal life, specifically that he engaged in extramarital affairs. The topic was the focus of considerable discussion on the Paul Finebaum
Paul Finebaum
Paul Finebaum is an American sports author, television and radio personality and former columnist based in Birmingham, Alabama. His primary focus is sports, particularly those in the Southeast. Finebaum was born in Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee, where he received a...
syndicated sports talk radio
Radio
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show, where Hunter Ford, a reporter for The Hoover Gazette
Hoover Gazette
The Hoover Gazette is a discontinued weekly newspaper that served the city of Hoover, Alabama. It was owned by Eagle Publishing Company LLC, published its first edition on June 5, 2006, and its last edition on August 15, 2007...
newspaper, reported the rumors. During those discussions, Ford was fired, live and on the air, by Gazette general manager John Junkin. (Ironically, Ford had previously advocated in a Gazette column that Propst be hired to fill the then-vacant head coach position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
). The Gazette went out of business about five weeks later.
Ford, who also worked for another suburban weekly, The Western Star in nearby Bessemer
Bessemer, Alabama
Bessemer is a city outside of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States eight miles west of Hoover. The population was 29,672 at the 2000 Census, but by the 2009 U.S...
, went to work for that newspaper full-time after his firing from The Hoover Gazette. In his column in the July 4, 2007 edition of The Western Star, Ford reported that a number of sources, none of which would allow their name to be used, said that Propst's alleged affairs also included three children born out of wedlock. The following week, The Western Star printed an apology for allowing Ford to print these allegations in their paper, though it did not specifically retract the charges. Propst continued to deny the allegations, which have yet to be confirmed by legal records or by anyone who will allow reporters to quote them by name.
But on July 28, 2007, The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News is the principal daily newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. The paper is owned by Advance Publications...
went public with the allegations when it published a letter from attorneys for Bishop to the Hoover Board of Education. The letter was a result of the board voting to not renew Bishop's contract as principal, an act which garnered widespread coverage by local news media. In the letter by Bishop's attorneys, which The News obtained through a public-records request, the attorneys state that Browning told Bishop that Propst "had a separate family and led a completely separate life," and that Bishop was told by Craig not to investigate the matter. The letter further alleges that Propst, "while on a school site visit in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
, slept with a young teacher from Hoover High School," and also that Propst had carried on a separate affair with an official at Hoover High. Propst's attorney denied the allegations.
Pointer completed his investigation in late September, and after considerable debate over several sessions (and public pressure from numerous public figures, including Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos
Tony Petelos
Tony Petelos is the first County Manager for Jefferson County, Alabama, USA having been selected by the County Commission in September 2011.Petelos grew up in Birmingham's Ensley neighborhood....
), the Hoover Board of Education voted 4-1 to release the report through several sources, including the board's website. Among the findings were that Propst's bank records indicated support for a "second family" in Pell City, Alabama
Pell City, Alabama
Pell City is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Ashville. At the 2000 census the population was 9,565. At the 2010 census, the city-limit population jumped to 12,695. -Geography:...
, but the incidents regarding grade-changing were largely caused by an assistant principal (with whom, the report indicated, Propst had an affair) and an administrator.
Propst came under further scrutiny when Hanceville
Hanceville, Alabama
Hanceville is a city in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 2,951.-Geography:Hanceville is located at .According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
High School complained to the Alabama High School Athletic Association
Alabama High School Athletic Association
The Alabama High School Athletic Association , based in Montgomery, is the agency which oversees interscholastic athletic programs for public schools in Alabama....
that a former player of theirs, Tristan Purifoy, did not transfer properly to Hoover High and was therefore ineligible. On October 23, 2007, the AHSAA ruled that Purifoy was indeed ineligible, and that the Bucs would have to forfeit all games in which Purifoy played. The investigation resulted in the forfeiture of four games, including a 1-0 loss to crosstown rival Spain Park High School
Spain Park High School
Spain Park High School is a public high school located in Hoover, Alabama, USA and is managed by the Hoover City School District. The school opened in the fall of 2001. The principal is Chris Shaw...
, the first loss to the Jaguars in the history of the teams' rivalry. Despite the forfeits, the Bucs finished the regular season with a 4-5 record and qualified for the AHSAA 6A playoffs. However, in Propst's last game as Hoover's head coach, they lost in the third round to another crosstown rival Vestavia Hills 21-17, a game considered by many Alabama sportswriters to be the biggest rivalry in the state. His team finished the season with an on-field record of 10-2 (6-6 including the four forfeit losses).
Resignation from Hoover High School
At a special meeting of the Hoover Board of Education on October 30, 2007, Propst announced that he would resign, but would continue to coach the team as far as they progress in the 2007 playoffs. In a 30-minute address to the board and a large crowd inside the board chambers, Propst tearfully admitted to a relationship outside his marriage and a child as a result of that relationship, but no other wrongdoing. "I am remorseful for what I have done. I have failed you as a community. I have failed you as a board, and especially I have failed you (Superintendent) Andy (Craig)," Propst said. "I made mistakes. I could have done things differently, but I don't admit wrongdoing inside the walls of Hoover High School."Instructional DVD
Propst has been featured in an instructional video entitled Building A Championship Football Program 12 Months A Year, published in 2007. The DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
outlines the steps to build a successful gridiron program, including the preparation and responsibilities of a coaching staff including the importance of building a booster club
Booster club
A booster club is an organization that is formed to support an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level...
.
External links
- Official MTV bio
- Official TV.com bio
- Bhamwiki article
- The Pointer Report (official report of investigation into grade-changing charges)