How about Rush Propst?

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Probst name showing up whether here or at Auburn should not come as a surprise. He is considered to have an excellent football mind by probably 90+% of ALL coaches in the state of Alabama in my opinion. Coach Satan puts on a big coaches clinic every summer and most Alabama HS coaches attend and get to all know each other and have the last several years, including Probst attending. He has a good football reputation and friendships with coaches like Saban, Gus, Smart, Pruitt, Lindsay and many others. He has been in the rooms with the top coaches in the country for several years now and he's outgrown the hs game. His offenses are innovative and his team's performances are often more dominant than not. I believe he could be wildly successful at the college level, and believe he will definitely get his shot on a staff somewhere in the southeast within the next couple of seasons. If he's so great then why hasn't he already been offered a job, well that's a simple one to answer, most colleges are not willing to bring in a coach, his wife and kids and his other soon to be his wife and kids, they tend to limit those hires to 1 family coaches. That situation has however changed and colleges will probably be more forgiving now that he is a 1 family man. I'm not gonna judge him for his past as while ugly and gross it's been going on since the invention of man and woman. Women are 37-0 and go undefeated each year! While many will moan and groan about a SEC program being crazy for taking a test run on an unproven coach with his past I think it's very likely to happen. I'm still laying out hope that it's an NFL guy that's causing the delay. Otherwise I think Enos/Streeter/Friend/Probst(in some capacity but not OC) are still in play.
 
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Pruitt trust’s Propst, and that’s huge. He definitely needs someone he can trust to run that side of the ball.

Briles, Canada & Brown are all very intriguing options.

Nobody is more focused on winning than Pruitt. And to win in the SEC you need players, not schemes. He wants a proven recruiter as much as a play caller.

Propst he does trust. However Propst has never recruited.
 
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volfannbama said:
Against high school talent at high school that actively recruit players. 95% of his competition will never play college football at any level.
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Pretty much all high school rosters. However, HS football in South GA is richer in talent than most places. Except maybe Metro Atlanta and Macon/Warner Robbins.
 
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GVF said:
Pretty much all high school rosters. However, HS football in South GA is richer in talent than most places. Except maybe Metro Atlanta and Macon/Warner Robbins.
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Yeah, and so is however. If im not mistaken his players at hoover didnt have a very good track record in college. I dont follow recruiting at all, so I could be wrong.
 
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volfannbama said:
Yeah, and so is however. If im not mistaken his players at hoover didnt have a very good track record in college. I dont follow recruiting at all, so I could be wrong.
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Hoover was a long time ago. I'm thinking more of what he's doing at Colquitt currently. I, too, would not know much at all about his players successes in college when he was at Hoover.
 
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vols1707 said:
Pruitt trust’s Propst, and that’s huge. He definitely needs someone he can trust to run that side of the ball.

Briles, Canada & Brown are all very intriguing options.

Nobody is more focused on winning than Pruitt. And to win in the SEC you need players, not schemes. He wants a proven recruiter as much as a play caller.

Propst he does trust. However Propst has never recruited.
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You do need players to compete at the highest levels but you also need coaches who can coach at the same level.
 
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GVF said:
Hoover was a long time ago. I'm thinking more of what he's doing at Colquitt currently. I, too, would not know much at all about his players successes in college when he was at Hoover.
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You think it would be smart for a coach with one year experience and didnt exactly perform very well in year one, should take a risk like that? I dont.
 
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volfannbama said:
You think it would be smart for a coach with one year experience and didnt exactly perform very well in year one, should take a risk like that? I dont.
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Agreed. There is a risk there for a first year coach if Probst was his choice. Although I do think Probst would be a great hire in a system, and with coaches he is suited for. As stated in another post, he has outgrown the HS arena. It could flop. It could pay off big. But, as we've seen a safe choice with experience that does not fit just doesn't work. So, any hire could go either way if it's not the right fit. we've all had jobs like that. I do appreciate JP is taking the time to make the right hire, whoever that ends up being. I would offer IMO, that he would be no more a risk than Auburn going with the Memphis OC. But, we don't want to be Auburn.
 
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conredge said:
George Quarles is on pace like Freeze just no as fast. The first big school to hire him will not be disappointed.
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Makes the most sense if you can't get big name OC. Quarles has a better resume than this buddy from Bamaville. Won multiple state HS championships with teams that hardly had any D1 players on it. Has been at Furman getting his experience as a position coach and now OC there. He seems like someone that could recruit good players here and coach them up well once they are here.
 
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If Propst lands the OC job over Briles and the other people mentioned including Freeze, it will be undeniably true that he knows where Pruitt's skeletons are buried from their time at Hoover together. Only reason Pruitt would hire Propst over these other guys is because Rush would have dirt on him....

There is literally no excuse for skipping Freeze or Briles and hiring Propst. Period...
 
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I didn’t see the “previous experience in scandals” listed as a qualification for the job. Why is it that three of the four candidates we have heard have significant sexual scandals in their past?
 
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Propst might not be a bad hire. I looked up his salary and I kind of understand why he has not made the jump yet. He already makes 100+ K a year. Why would he want to go to a smaller school even if it were a P5 to make 2-300K a year? Doubtful that he would want to make that move at his age. I mean for a young guy that might make sense. I just don't see it making sense for a guy his age. I can't see him wanting to go to try to make a name for himself at a smaller school just to move again to a bigger job. So he could very well be a good hire. Not the huge splash hire we would like. Although there is no doubt he can coach. Hes won at every place hes been.
 
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