🏈 Rush Propst has already quit his new job at the USA Academy.

[BamaFan334]

If what he is saying is true I can't blame him one bit. Sounds like a disaster over there and a job for a guy cutting his teeth or a guy wanting to show he can build, not for any coach that has winning experience. He has no tools to work with, so it's hard to make a table and chairs with no supplies.

 

[UAgrad93]

If what he is saying is true I can't blame him one bit. Sounds like a disaster over there and a job for a guy cutting his teeth or a guy wanting to show he can build, not for any coach that has winning experience. He has no tools to work with, so it's hard to make a table and chairs with no supplies.

True to an extent. If you are one that isn't concerned about the W's and L's and you only want to help kids grow and develop into young men, you look beyond the obstacles. Rush is an egotistical asshole that is only concerned with himself. Always has been, always will.

 

[BamaFan334]

True to an extent. If you are one that isn't concerned about the W's and L's and you only want to help kids grow and develop into young men, you look beyond the obstacles. Rush is an egotistical asshole that is only concerned with himself. Always has been, always will.

I can agree with that. But the school hasn't set these kids up to succeed either. How can a coach not have a desk or chalk board? Apparently there is nowhere the practice. Is there equipment? Who signed them up to play IMG and St. Frances without having a program going right now? They will get slaughtered. Even a team of blue chippers would get slaughtered at this point with the conditions expressed.

 

[UAgrad93]

I can agree with that. But the school hasn't set these kids up to succeed either. How can a coach not have a desk or chalk board? Apparently there is nowhere the practice. Is there equipment? Who signed them up to play IMG and St. Frances without having a program going right now? They will get slaughtered. Even a team of blue chippers would get slaughtered at this point with the conditions expressed.

I agree 100% with all of your points. I think the founder made up this schedule and put the cart before the horse. He should've gotten the school up and running and THEN jump to make a schedule like he has. I think a problem he may have run into as well is that the AHSAA isn't going to allow their member schools to compete again them either. With Rush saying "re-class" kids, it makes me believe that these kids and this school is more of a prep school like a Hargrave or some school like that rather than a traditional 7-12 HS.

 

[BamaFan334]

I agree 100% with all of your points. I think the founder made up this schedule and put the cart before the horse. He should've gotten the school up and running and THEN jump to make a schedule like he has. I think a problem he may have run into as well is that the AHSAA isn't going to allow their member schools to compete again them either. With Rush saying "re-class" kids, it makes me believe that these kids and this school is more of a prep school like a Hargrave or some school like that rather than a traditional 7-12 HS.

Yeah, that had me really confused as well. I wasn't sure if he just meant kids that technically finished four years of high school in three years, but then I was wondering how many kids are actually doing that. I know JT Daniels at USC did, and you see it very rarely with basketball, but I wouldn't think the numbers would be anything close to sustaining a football team for one season, much less have a future at doing it.

 

[Rolltide24]

I read where this school will have the classes online and field a football team. So it sounds like there won’t even be classrooms, just football facilities. And they don’t even have that near ready.

 

[TerryP]

With Rush saying "re-class" kids, it makes me believe that these kids and this school is more of a prep school like a Hargrave or some school like that rather than a traditional 7-12 HS.

It's pretty much exactly what he said with "they've already completed their eligibility in high school and they re-class."

“I’m not saying it’s right, wrong or indifferent, but I wasn’t sure about dealing with re-class kids. They’re older kids. They’ve already completed their eligibility in high school and they re-class, and if they did not play on the varsity in a varsity game as a freshman, they could re-class and play in this private league. But nobody does that. The teams we’re playing don’t have re-class kids.

When we first started talking about this program's launch it was mentioned that there was an Auburn connection and all signs pointed to it being built as a "football factory." A comparison to Hargrave fits with the exception they actually have a campus, and classrooms, at Hargrave. It's not a school that's limited to re-class kids either. They've got some young ones in their military academy.