0:00 Jeremy Schaap tells the story of controversial high school football coach Rush Propst. 3:55 Outside the Lines shares Propst’s leaked conversation with Michael Nelson. 5:18 Mark Schlabach weighs in on Propst being on leave with Valdosta over allegations he arranged improper benefits.
@@chadwydo2921 It depends on the state. Some states require both parties to a private conversation to consent. Others only require one party---presumably, the recorder--to consent. Georgia only requires one party to consent, like most states.
Propst is a great coach and I played for him for 2 years at Hoover and honestly I don't see anything wrong with what he saying here. This has been rampant in college football and high school football for years
A football coach handing out narcotic medications to youth players is extremely dangerous, not to mention highly illegal. Not only should he have been immediately fired, but also arrested and criminally charged.
@@jrwheeler81 wake up. it happens. players play injured. it happens at every level. in my 6th grade youth league my coach bought out star hb a 2k pig lard brace. and fed him tylenol 3s before games. it just happens. at those elite high schools, the transgressions are far more serious. you pick out a team in the friday night lights football towns who accomplished anything. and that team had payoffs, coaching staff being paid to influence students toward certain schools, drugs and alot of education overlooking
I was about to say... plenty of GA and Bama hs football coaches making 6 figures. I agree too about Texas, high 6 figures there plus the coach has his own TV Show reviewing each weeks game!!
Plus....(idk how it is in Ga/Bama) H.S coaches in Texas (the TOP ones) barely even teach classes. They are there to coach football, primarily. And, some of the Texas Stadiums are better than a lot of the smaller schools.
@@slyderkmk6729 most are named athletic director of the school and/or school district (if there's only one High School) to get the high 6 figure salaries.
At the end of the day Rush Propst will always get a chance to coach somewhere because of his success. Schools will look over the other stuff because he has won everywhere he’s been
I played football for Jeff Davis High School out of Montgomery. In 2002, my junior year we matched up with Hoover in the 6A State Finals. I couldn't believe the size, speed, and strength of some of those guys on the football team.
I wonder if it has changed under Josh Niblett. He seems like a good guy, but who knows. Seems like Hoover has been good but not quite AS good as under Propst. Other teams like Thompson have closed the gap a bit.
Now I’m 30 I can say this is true I played from 04-08 I was his last class he coached in 08 he didn’t give us no steroids tho that’s cap but everything else is true
This is funny and all but as soon as they try to paint the players as criminals I’m out. A 17-19 year old kid taking money he needs (and should be able to take, anyway) is not wrong.
Joseph, I agree with you 100%. If you contribute to bringing in millions why not get paid something. All the people who say, “ but their education is paid for” must not have gone to college. There are people with degrees who are barely getting by. This isn’t the 90s, back when a degree mattered. Chubb deserved to get paid. I’m not a fan of GA but I watched Chubb and Gurley every weekend. Not bc of GA, bc of greatness.
@@DeepInfernoRising So what? It’s a stupid rule. IMO the people who enforce that rule are the criminals. The NCAA and universities steal from their athletes all the time and we’re supposed to think they’re the good guys because kids break a rule that they invented? It’s a racket. “Oh, well gee, a rule’s a rule, and THEY ARE breaking a rule. I guess we’re just gonna have to keep all that money they earned and vilify them for breaking that rule.” Where do they get off making up rules that benefit only themselves and why are we stupid enough to go along with their BS?
I believe him about Nick saban. I just watched the Najee Harris story yesterday. He went from poor living standards to his mother moving to Alabama once he committed to the school, right ? How’s that possible if nobody’s pockets were filled. I understand it. Big businesses have free spending accounts. 🤷🏾♂️
The parents get a good paying job & their kids get a good education. It would be reall hard to prove anything illegal about it. High schools do it too.
It's weird because the NCAA just turns it's head the other way on certain schools. You have like Jeremy Pruitt who gets busted and then other coaches don't. I assume now the NIL wll just create a legal method to funnel whatever money and benefits these school boosters need to secure top recruits.
It’s so annoying to see ESPN (reporters) to act like they don’t know players get paid under the table. Literally anyone who knows really good athletes knows this happens. Pointless story
@@latinolawdog5067 high school players are also getting paid and have been for years and years. That’s the other thing they don’t want to say publicly. It’s all so silly. I know a player that got $250k to go to a high school for his 4 years.
One day in the 1870's, some students at Yale took a ball outside to kick around. Fifteen minutes later there were scholarship scandals and athletics violations.
If it makes Alabama & Georgia feel any better, Florida has been doing this consistently since the Wilbur Marshall days. It’s just the way of the more football-competitive SEC schools. Cam & his Dad got almost a cool million from Auburn.
@@joeyricefried9621 😭 wahhhhh. Literally no evidence of Alabama doing it since they went on probation the last time. If you Google who has been on ncaa probations for paying player the most guess who’s finally #1 in the state of Alabama? That would be the barn, aka auburn.
That happened with an over the road truck driver I knew, when he died his wife came in were he worked and needed info, couple days later the 2nd wife came in and needed the same info, 2 wives 2 family's one in Baltimore and one in Dallas TX.
Valdosta been paying players. They bought my cousin a brand new F150 and gave him and his mom money to help with their bills. I seen it with my own eyes. If high schools do colleges definitely do it.
Rush Propst is hated by many, but that is exactly why he gets run out of these programs...Alan rodemaker paid for players' summer school and had transfers come from out of state too.. when he was at Valdosta....all this stuff is on the NFL network docuseries..... no forfeits, no one ruled ineligible, no disciplinary action by the GHSAA.
Coach PROPST was just talkin to get💰out of the Booster Club (multi-millionaires galore) & I DON'T blame Him. It's apparent, Coach KNEW how much The Club was worth. It's not illegal.
Bama and Georgia both are big time programs that continues to bring big money to the NCAA. The NCAA will continue to turn there heads about what's going on in Tuscaloosa and Athens.
So this man got fired after winning championships for having 2 families then fired for probably giving his player a aspirin or ibuprofen then trying help players an they family out how is that controversial smdh
Because your supposed to win with kids in your district. Those are the rules . How ever. Nobody wants to play by the rules or laws . So the programs who are playing by the rules get demolished by those who are not . Cheating the kids in that district.
Every recruit and high school coach carries a recorder (on their phone). If you're a college coach regularly committing these violations, you'll be recorded and replayed on ESPN. Also, as soon as an athlete gets vexed with you, you're at his mercy. It would be better to lose a game or two and build in a legit way. Win the game of life.
@@josephvanhorn5347 yes very funny I mean here “high” school sports might get a crowd of 10-40 people mostly family members at an local park pitch , in america you play the state finals at nfl or college stadium
It's gotten really hard for Valdosta since there are so many powerhouses in the Atlanta area. You also have the private schools that recruit these high profile athletes.
The mighty John Curtis patrots from my neck of the woods stopped him at hoover from winning a national championship one year. That's all we heard those guys were going to show us how "buck football " was played. We took there heart and soul that night.
If I were looking to build a winning program, I'd hire Rush Propst in a heartbeat. The man knows how to win. He can turn a ragtag group of miscreants into a lean, mean, championship-winning machine.
“the teams touchdown club” implies its affiliated with the school district. its just boosters. nubbs specifically wanted the coach to be his bff. and realized he was in over his head a bit. but this is how elite hs football works
I remember attending the annual coaching clinic at Alabama in 2005 where high school coaching staffs from all over both GA and Alabama would attend. Probst was speaking on day two. but on Friday and sat night all the high school coached were fed BBQ and beer. it was a great time. I remember sitting with the staff from Vestavia Hills and they all talking about how much they all hated Propst. They said he was very hard to work for, and drove his staff like a slave driver.
Rush is an all time HS football coaching great!! Love or hate him, the man IS A WINNER!! There will ALWAYS be someone out there who is BEGGING for someone like Rush to come along!!
You fail to understand he wouldn’t be winning with the kids from the district, if he wasn’t paying families to illegally move into the district, big difference. Just another coach
Thanks, ESPN for Blowing the Lid on Rush Propst's Actions because he should have never been considered otherwise for Valdosta and the Propst Year will haunt Valdosta nationally because they've always had National News Problems with their coach, too.
Honestly I played for one of the best HS in my state under one of the most legendary HCs. This has in HS and College, kids families get “help” with housing and everything.
This is one of the true things Rush ever said. Sad thing is that the “enforcer” (NCAA) was nowhere to be found in all of this. The whole thing was/is crooked
I just watched the Netflix show, this guy is all about me. If they win its bc he's a great coach, but if they kise its the kids. During the Colquit game he said the other team would fold bc he isn't there anymore. I've played ball or coached ball my entire life, won a d3 natty . Coach Probst would never make it anywhere other then hs. That me bs wouldn't fly.
Alabama has been a football factory for almost 10 years nick Saban wasn’t that good in lsu all of a sudden he leaves the Miami dolphins and goes to Alabama and is turning out National championship after National championship……..something in the milk not clean
This pearl clutching is hilarious, Propst is not unique. This pay to play stuff is happening at every major program in college and most of the big high school ones.
