Rush Propst is the most infamous coach in high school football history. He just won his eighth state championship in two different states as the interim head coach at Coosa Christian.
The Conquerors beat the Panthers of Lanett by a final score of 29-22 on Friday.
As you could imagine, the Alabama high school football title game did not come without fireworks. Propst made sure the officials knew he was there and did not hold back his opinion on calls of which he disagreed.
Who is Rush Propst?
You likely know coach Rush Propst from television. He is best known for his role on the MTV reality series ‘Two-A-Days’ in the early 2000s.
Although he was known to be brutal toward his players at Hoover High School, the won five state championships in six years. Propst immediately became an icon in the Yellowhammer State.
Rush Propst was ultimately fired in 2007 for a series of scandal. He allegedly altered the grades of his players so they would be eligible to play, which is perhaps most important from a legal standpoint.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg…
Propst was married to his high school sweetheart at the time and they had three children. Meanwhile, he was having an affair with the administrator who helped to fudge his players’ grades at Hoover and a second, completely different teach at the school at the same time.
If that wasn’t awkward enough, Propst also had an entire second family in another part of the state.
Another year, another school, another scandal.
Colquitt County High School in Georgia hired Propst as its new head coach the very next season after he was fired at Hoover. The Packers won a state championship in 2015. Their head coach was then suspended in 2016 for headbutting one of his own players — without a helmet — during the playoffs.
Propst was fired in 2019.
A lengthy internal investigation found that the head football coach was likely dispensing undisclosed “pills” to his players. It was reoccurring issue.
To make matters worse, he also failed to show up to 21 half or whole days of work without any warning. He never notified his boss of the absences.
Propst also owed nearly $450,000 in state and federal taxes, which did not necessarily have a direct impact his employment but didn’t help. Outside reports claimed his failed payments dated back to 2010.
A return to television did not last long.
Even though Rush Propst was never not embroiled in controversy, he received another opportunity as a head coach at Valdosta High School in Georgia in 2020. The Wildcats were featured on the Netflix series ‘Titletown High.
That did not go well either.
Propst was cited for a “lack of institutional control” because he played multiple ineligible transfers— in addition to a crazy saga involving a one-armed booster named ‘Nub.’ Valdosta was ultimately fined more than $7,500 for its misconduct, which was the largest total fine in state history. It was also banned from the playoffs and required to forfeit multiple games. It fired its head coach after just one season.
Coosa Christian won the Alabama high school football state championship.
Propst was hired as the associate head coach and athletic director at Coosa Christian High School in Alabama prior to 2023. He left after just three months to become the head football coach at Pell City but he never coached a single game.
The school board called a special meeting to vote on the termination of Propst’s contract less than one month after he was hired. No vote was taken so he did not get fired, but he resigned at the start of May.
That led Rush Propst back to Coosa Christian as the associate head coach for 2025. However, the Conquerors were forced to suspend head coach Mark O’Bryant to avoid a postseason ban so Propst was elevated to the interim head coach position in O’Bryant’s absence.
His opponents called on God to mock the ‘evil’ football coach and Coosa Christian lost its first two games. But that was it.
The Panthers went 12-0 over its next 12 games to reach the Class 2A high school football championship in the state of Alabama on Friday. Their head coach made sure the officials felt his presence.
.@CoosaFB head coach Rush Propst speaking to one of the game officials here in the first quarter https://t.co/beQnPv10zb pic.twitter.com/IOzH1aLl1i
— Andy Villamarzo (@Andy_Villamarzo) December 5, 2025
He stayed on them throughout all four quarters.
Coosa Christian defeated Lanett by a final score of 29-22. It is the eighth different state title in Alabama and Georgia for Propst as a head coach.
State title #8 for Rush Propst. @abc3340 @CoosaFB pic.twitter.com/jXn2lPuALe
— Jamie Hale (@JamieHaleSports) December 6, 2025
His future is currently unknown.
“I’m not done with coaching,” Propst said after the game. “I want to coach. Coosa just has to make their mind up what they want to do. If they want to bring the other guy back, so be it. I’m OK either way. I’m going to coach whether it be at Coosa or somewhere else.”
The most infamous head coach in high school football is open for business.
The post Alabama’s Most Infamous High School Football Coach Goes Nuclear On Referee During State Championship appeared first on BroBible.
Alabama’s Most Infamous High School Football Coach Goes Nuclear On Referee During State Championship
Pinoy Human Rights
0 Comments