re: Rush Propst saga: Georgia's Valdosta high school to forfeit wins, lose postseason in 2021

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Word back then was that Saban was willing to talk with him, asked him if the allegations (of a second family) were true, and when Propst replied in the affirmative, that was the end of it.

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Yep. Saban interviewed him (pretty sure for an off the field job) in Tuscaloosa. Saban started calling around doing background immediately after the interview and someone told him the rumor. Propst said he got the call from Saban before he even made it back to Hoover. Saban asked if it was true. He admitted it, and was told he was no longer under consideration.

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The interview stretched to three hours. Saban seemed impressed. On the drive home, Propst called his girlfriend. He nailed it, he told her. The dream would soon be a reality. A few minutes later, Saban called. Instead of a job offer, he had a question. About Propst's girlfriend. Propst, you see, was married to another woman with whom he had three children. Yet there were whispers he was living a double life. Two women. Two sets of kids. One football coach. Somehow, the rumors had spread all the way to the Alabama football office. Saban wanted to know: Was it true?

"I couldn't lie," Propst says now, some six years later. "I told him it was ... it was all true. I knew that was it."

He pauses.

"Man, that was tough as s---."

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