[1] He formerly served as athletic director and associate football coach at Coosa Christian School in Gadsden, Alabama.
Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV series Two-A-Days, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover teams.
In addition to football, he was a two-year starter on the basketball team and even though Ohatchee did not have a track program, he checked out of school one afternoon and won the District 100-yard dash his senior year.
Propst's Hoover team was one of the top-ranked teams in the United States over much of the first decade of the new millennium, winning Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 6A state championships in five of the first six seasons including four consecutive titles from 2002 to 2005 (missing out on 6 straight after losses in the championship game to Daphne in 2001 and Prattville in 2006).
[12] When Les Koenning left the University of South Alabama in January 2009, head coach Joey Jones interviewed Propst to fill the vacant position as the offensive coordinator.
In 2015, Colquitt County completed another 15–0 season with a 30–13 victory over the Roswell Hornets to claim their second consecutive Georgia AAAAAA State Championship.
(Ironically, Ford had previously advocated in a Gazette column that Propst be hired to fill the then-vacant head coach position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham).
Ford, was then hired by editor Dale Jones of The Western Star in nearby Bessemer, after his firing from The Hoover Gazette.
In his column in the edition of July 4, 2007, of The Western Star, Ford reported that a number of sources, none of which would allow their name to be used, said that Propst's alleged affair also included a child born out of wedlock.
But on July 28, 2007, The Birmingham News went public with the allegations when it published a letter from attorneys for Bishop to the Hoover Board of Education.
[26] The letter was a result of the board voting to not renew Bishop's contract as principal, an act which garnered widespread coverage by local news media.
[27] Among the findings were that Propst's bank records indicated support for a "second family" in Pell City, Alabama, but the incidents regarding grade-changing were largely caused by an assistant principal and an administrator.
[31] At a special meeting of the Hoover Board of Education on October 30, 2007, Propst announced that he would resign, but would continue to coach the team as far as they progress in the 2007 playoffs.
"[32][33] In June 2016, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission announced that Propst would be suspended for the entire 2016 season after head-butting one of his players (and bloodying himself) during a December 4, 2015, playoff game.
[36] On March 14, 2019, 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.
[39] 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.
[41][42] On April 24, 2024, the Pell City Board of Education called a special meeting to vote on terminating Propst's contract.