Rush Propst will be taking over the Coosa Christian football program for the 2025 season.
Propst replaces Mark O’Bryant, who was suspended by the school in an effort to become eligible for the 2025 AHSAA playoffs. The school was taken off restrictive probation and the football program will be eligible for the 2025 postseason. The school’s athletics director, Jack Justus, announced the move to the Gadsden Times on Wednesday, Aug. 13.
Like O’Bryant, Propst is one of the most successful coaches in the history of Alabama football but has been one of the most controversial since his rise to fame at Hoover in the early 2000s.
Propst became one of the most well-known Alabama high school football coaches while leading Hoover from1999-2007. Propst won five state titles leading the Bucs (2000, 2002-05) and added two more titles in Georgia with Colquitt County. He holds a career record of 296-117 over 32 years of coaching between Alabama and Georgia.
Propst most recently coached at Pell City, going 1-9 there in 2023. Before that, he was an assistant football coach and athletic director at Coosa Christian from January to March of 2023.
Propst rose to prominence with the MTV show “Two-A-Days” but resigned following the 2007 season due to allegations of improprieties. Propst later confirmed that he was leading a double life, maintaining two families.
Propst moved to Georgia, taking over Colquitt County going 119-35 over 11 seasons, but was dismissed in 2019 as allegations of improprieties came up once again. He was a volunteer assistant at UAB before going to Valdosta High and was dismissed in 2020 following another set of allegations of illegal recruiting,…
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