re: The Ballad of Rush Propst

Rush was the coach at Hoover when Josh Chapman’s grades miraculously disappeared from his ninth grade year. That was what was keeping him from signing with Auburn, but he miraculously qualified for UAT!

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Read the deposition. It is a great read. Apparently Propst had an insider that was feeding him names of the other candidates. He and/or his agents went behind the scenes and poisoned them against the program so that he ended up to quote the witness as “the last man standing.”

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I read it, I thought the "Funny Money" was comical. He pushed to get thousands from HS boosters and said he needed $10,000 cash in his desk drawer at all times.

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You've got to love SEC recruiting.

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When it starts at the HS level with coaches and boosters werkin' in the fertile grounds of SEC country, it's rotten to the core.

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That's terrible, I'm sure miraculous circumstances regarding grades have never benefited Auburn, or any other program in the SEC. Only Alabama, amirite?

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I believe that Chapman going to UA, and Butch Davis at UNC "convincing" the DE Robert Quinn and one other kid that year were leading indicators that Tuberville was about to get boatraced recruiting-wise right out of a job at AU.

The guy shouldn't be around HS aged boys.

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Not that it matters, but I think Pruitt ran point on that whole Chapman situation when he was still at Hoover

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Totally off-topic, but this reminds me of a tidbit about a high school game that Josh Chapman played in (copied from Wikipedia):

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A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Chapman attended Hoover High School and played high school football under head coach Rush Propst and defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt. Propst described him as the best defensive lineman in school history. Hoover finished the season as the 6A state runner-up with a 13–2 record, losing the state final to Prattville. The only other loss came against Joe McKnight's John Curtis Christian (LA).

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Circa 2006, I think, Hoover was the then-No. 1 team in the country, and No. 6 John Curtis rallied from a 14-0 first quarter deficit to win, behind Joe McKnight's 200 yards or so of total offense.

People I know still talk about Joe McKnight in that game, saying that he had one of the best overall performances of any high school athlete that they've ever seen.

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If you look at the racial mixture of Hoover and then compare it to the racial mixture of the FB team it seemed out of line.

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While they definitely did, and still do, recruit, a lot of that has to do with the zoning of the high schools in Hoover. Most of your higher income areas zone for Spain Park. Even though Hoover has about 3x as many students as Spain Park, they won't rezone to even it out a bit. Why? You know why.

They also got Jameis to buy his family a house in Hoover zone so that his little brother will be there in a few years. My son plays against him now on the middle school level and the kid has talent. Will be interesting to watch.

They also mentioned handling of school funds in the article. And in Georgia, I think he was allegedly giving kids pills when he wasn't supposed to.

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I know the man gets results on the field, but how many chances does he get before people finally stop hiring him? He's not a good human being and therefore he should not be in a position of leadership over teenagers.

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Come on. He had another family and might, possibly be pulling some shenanigans with recruits and recruits families who are just as "bad a human" as he is.

What's the big deal? Who among us hasn't had another family at one time or another?

RollTide1987 doesn't get to judge his worthiness to exist on the Earth, no matter how much RollTide1987 believes he should have this power due to his purity and righteousness.

Due to RollTide1987's unrivaled characteristics of purity of thought and action and exemplary examples he has set his entire life, possibly never even cursing or even merely glancing at a woman's arse that didn't belong to his equally saintly wife, he now believes he is the Judge of Judges.

Enough with the self-rigteous condemnations, from everyone in the thread and not just you, RollTide1987.

If he is a crook, he is a crook. Maybe you don't want him to coach your team or work for you because he may cheat or steal or bring trouble to you that you didn't ask for.

But to stand on the 'old high horse while sneering at others, when everyone has don't some devious shite at one time or another, is a bit too hypocritical for me.

So a less than reputable HS coach with no personal or professional connection to Chubb or Kirby has expressed second hand hearsay about illicit recruiting practices at UGA that he learned from boosters in Moultrie (where Chubb isn’t even from) against whom he almost certainly has an axe to grind for forcing him out of his Colquitt job?

Just want to be sure I’ve got this non-story straight for when I see it passed around the Florida boards over the next 6 months.