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Rush Propst is set to become the head coach at the Ultimate Student Athletes (USA) Academy, located in Coosada, Ala.
USA Academy will begin play in 2020 with a mission to seek exceptionally promising student-athletes of all backgrounds from across the nation and the world. USA Academy will educate student-athletes through mental and physical discipline, athletic experience, while placing them on a national stage and preparing for the next chapter of their lives.
Propst will return to Alabama after notably serving as head coach at Hoover High School (1999-2007), winning five state championships. He was recently a volunteer consultant at UAB during the 2019 season for his former assistant Bill Clark.
Clark, Jeremy Pruitt (Tennessee), Chip Lindsey (Troy) and John Grass (Jacksonville State) are all former assistants for Propst during his Hoover tenure that are current FBS and FCS head coaches.
The seven-time state and 2015 national championship head coach received college coaching opportunities in 2020, but will now have the ability to recruit all players to USA Academy and build a national brand the way he desires.
Propst, a former star in the hit show “Two-A-Days” on MTV, will once again set the tone for a new reality show showcasing USA Academy.
“Ultimate Student Athletes” will document Propst’s journey in building the football program from scratch. The show will be distributed starting in late 2020 to on demand platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu. Exclusive content will also be available on the UltimateStudentAthletes.com website.
“We are excited about the future at USA Academy and the “Ultimate Student Athletes” reality show,” USA Academy founder Dustin DeVaughn said. “As you can see, we are sparing no expense to ensure our student-athletes have the best facilities, equipment, apparel and training.
“I told everyone when I started that I had three main objectives. One, I was going to make tuition affordable and accessible to every student-athlete and their family. Two, I was going to create an education platform to allow students to access the most versatile, NCAA approved education curriculum in the nation that creates their highest probability of success. The third objective was to hire the best coaching staff in the country that would put our programs competing on a national stage right out of the gate — as you can see, it has all came together fast. When you add these things with our recruiting roadmap, one that is designed to make the recruiting process streamlined for college coaches and student-athletes, it creates a maximum exposure and opens up scholarship opportunities that most student-athletes would never be able to access. Collegiate coaches know our staff well enough that when they are recruiting a USA Academy student-athlete, that they are properly prepared both academically and athletically for the next level.”
Upon being finalized, Propst is scheduled to have a press conference Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. CT at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville Hotel & Conference Center at Capitol Hill in Prattville, Ala. to be introduced as USA Academy’s head coach.
USA Academy football facilities
USA Academy will begin operations on its football facility and stadium in late Jan. 2020.
A state-of-the-art 19,000 square-foot football facility will overlook a 5,000-seat stadium. The facility will rival FBS programs as it is set to showcase a state-of-the-art locker room, custom workout and training areas, a nutrition bar, film rooms, classrooms, a student-athlete lounge and offices.
The stadium’s press box area will have four private access corporate suites, coaches suites, an announcers area and a coaches platform on top. There will also be LED stadium lighting, displaying in red, white and blue. The LEDs will be able to showcase lighting effects.
At the far end of the stadium will be a 4,000 square-foot building with a concession area, retail store, ticket booth, restrooms, guest locker rooms and official locker rooms.
USA Academy is also planning on building a dormitory to house student-athletes with groundbreaking no later than the summer of 2021.
A state-of-the-art indoor facility of 100 yards that mirrors the Tennessee Titans’ design will be started on as soon as possible. Propst had the state of Georgia’s first 100-yard indoor facility when coaching at Colquitt County.
Rush Propst’s career by the numbers
- Ashville High School (1989-93)
- Eufaula High School (1994-96)
- Alba High School (1997)
- Alma Bryant High School (1998)
- Hoover High School (1999-2007)
- Colquitt County High School (2008-18)
- UAB (2019, volunteer consultant)
295-96 career record
139 players signed scholarships at Colquitt County (over 250 total players in career)
1 National championship (2015)
5 AHSAA Class 6A state championships (2000, 2002–2005)
2 GHSA Class 6A state championships (2014–2015: 30-game win streak)
