28 Facts About Rush Propst

Thomas Rush Propst was born on December 1957 and is the former head football coach at Pell City High School in Pell City, Alabama.

Rush Propst formerly served as athletic director and associate football coach at Coosa Christian School in Gadsden, Alabama.

Rush Propst is the former head coach at Valdosta High School in Valdosta, Georgia, Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia, and Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.

Rush Propst has helped over 250 players receive college scholarships, including players such as Chad Jackson, John Parker Wilson, Ryan Pugh and Cornelius Williams.

Rush Propst, who is of German descent, is a native of Ohatchee, Alabama where he graduated from Ohatchee High School in 1976.

Rush 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.

Rush Propst graduated from Jacksonville State in 1981 with a degree in Physical Education.

Rush Propst divorced Tammy in 2008 and married his current wife, Stefnie, with whom he has four children.

Ralph Clyde "Shorty" Rush Propst, who was born in 1924 and played for the Alabama Crimson Tide, is his uncle.

Rush Propst took his first coaching position as a student assistant at Ohatchee in 1977, the year they won their only state championship.

Rush Propst's brother, Philip was a star on that team.

Rush Propst served as an assistant coach for eight years at Cleburne County High School in Heflin, Alabama, Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia, and Ashville High School in Ashville, Alabama.

Rush Propst was eventually promoted to head football coach at Ashville High, serving from 1989 to 1993.

Rush Propst then moved on to Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama from 1994 to 1996 before being hired by Alba High School in Bayou La Batre, Alabama in 1997.

In 1998, Rush Propst coached Alma Bryant High School, the school that resulted from Alba's merger with the high school in Grand Bay, Alabama.

Rush Propst was hired at Hoover in 1999, where he coached for nine years, winning 110 games and five state championships.

On January 30,2008, Rush 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 Rush Propst to fill the vacant position as the offensive coordinator.

Rush Propst was relieved of coaching duties following the 2018 season.

Rush Propst spent a year as a volunteer assistant coach at UAB.

Rush Propst faced charges having to do with his personal life, specifically that he engaged in extramarital affairs.

Rush 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.

At a special meeting of the Hoover Board of Education on October 30,2007, Rush Propst announced that he would resign, but would continue to coach the team as far as they progress in the 2007 playoffs.

In June 2016, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission announced that Rush Propst would be suspended for the entire 2016 season after head-butting one of his players during a December 4,2015, playoff game.

On March 14,2019, Rush Propst was relieved of his duties as the high school's head football coach in a unanimous vote by the Colquitt County Board of Education.

The PSC investigation into Rush Propst was settled with a 131-day suspension.

In In March 2020, Rush Propst was cleared of all the accusations of wrongdoing advanced by the Colquitt County Superintendent Doug Howell and had his Georgia teaching certificate reinstated.

On May 3,2024, Rush Propst announced his resignation as Pell City's head football coach.