and old fashion doing the right thing go by without somebody standing up and doing whats right this is what you get a big mountain of pure %&^$.  Alot of hard working folks who have help support the football program did not know this crap was going own so it is a big blow to the regular non-insiders at Hoover. Your average working guy with a family that supports the team can't help what crazy Rush does.  When he started the affiar within the school he should have been let go then. I like state titles and games on TV but whats right is right and whats wrong is wrong.

Okay, so don't fire him.  Ask him to leave.  If he cares one small iota about his Hoover Bucs, he'd do the right thing and get the heck out of here.  He is a liability.  Always has been.  From Day One.  But because he won football games (and still does), he's given a free pass.  
 
This mess will certainly test our community to the limits.  When all of the details are out there, we'll see who stands where.
 
Way to go, Rushie.  
 
Thanks for pitting neighbor against neighbor.  
 
Thanks for being such a jerk that everyone in the entire state hates Hoover.  
 
Thanks for tearing down every single shred of what Coach Bob Finley stood for.  You must be so proud.
 
Thanks for bringing MTV to our fair city so that we could all see how vile the inside of your football program is.
 
Thanks for recruiting football players from other cities so that the boys who have been in the football program since PeeWee football could sit the bench their junior and senior years.  I'm sure their parents appreciate it, too.  After raising money and supporting the football program for 10 years, they get to watch their son be replaced by some star athlete from Hanceville.
 
Thanks for having so many assistant football coaches that no other sports at HHS get the kind of support they need to succeed on the same level as your football program.
 
Thanks for having your buddy, Bishy, hired as principal so that not only the athletic integrity of HHS is in question, but the academic integrity as well.
 
Thanks for bringing so much glory to our city that our Hoover teachers are embarrassed when they attend national conferences to be pointed out as "oh, y'all are from Hoover, the Two-A-Days school".  Wonder how long the really good teachers are going to put up with your crap.
 
Thanks for spreading your seed and populating Pell City as well.
 
Thanks for seeking out that female administrator and ruining her reputation and career.
 
Thanks for being such a fine role model for our young men, as any heroic football coach would.
 
Thanks for being such a fine father and husband.  Many young men look to you for guidance.  
 
Thanks for taking the role of community icon so seriously and working so hard to be a fine, moral human being.
 
Sad thing is, 1990 is right.  Our Board has no intentions of firing you.  They're morally vacant people as well.  How can people in glass houses throw stones?
 
What a service you've done for our community.  Thanks.

I am a Hoover Bucs fan and have attended most home games and many away games over the last 10 years.  
 
I am sick & tired of Rush Propst and what his actions have done and are doing to this community. Anybody in power that continues to support him is blind and should also consider stepping aside. I know Coach Grass at SPHS and believe he is a fine Christian man and that he has built a staff in his image. I wish him well against everyone but Hoover, but part of me would be happy if he beats Rush this year especially if that helps get rid of Rush.
 
I dream of the day Hoover has a decent moral coach and staff to lead our kids and represent our community. I no longer am proud to be a fan of the program simply because of him and that makes me sick.
 

radar49, I find your posts to very informative and very scary!  If what you are saying is true, this is far more serious that RP and football.  Please keep us up to date on any information that you have.
 
I can't go tonight to the meeting so I hope that I can get information tomorrow from this forum.  I plan to attend Monday although I've been told it will not do any good.  I believe that parents going will show the BOE we are watching.

Where is the IRS when you need them

Didn't they just find out that some teachers in the Birmingham system were taking up money for cheerleading and trips to Europe and some of the money "disappeared"?
 
This is the danger when money is not being properly accounted for and audited.  The auditing procedures are as much for the protection of those handling the money as they are for the people paying the money.
 
I've been dealing with some purchases for a booster organization I'm part of, and frankly, the procedures are a pain.  Especially in the summer when the people who have to sign off on it all are scattered all over the place.  But it is okay.  It is what we need to do, because everyone knows that the money is all accounted for, and no one can accuse us of doing anything wrong with the funds.

AMEN!!!

Hooverhooch,
I've been trying to keep up with the forum topics, but I must have missed something.  Did a public figure ask for forgiveness? If so, who?  If so, which "sin(s)" did he/she ask to be forgiven for?  Thanks for any additional information which you might be able to provide.

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Quote from HooverHooch on 07/22/07 at 5:24pm:

 
I have tried SO hard to not comment on this thread but your last two posts make it nearly impossible to keep my mouth shut.
 
Allow me to address your two posts. It is always good to quote scripture when it supports our cause, right?  Well, since we're on a scripture quoting roll, we could quote one of the 10 Commandments which I do believe addresses this issue square on.  But I choose not to go that route.  I'll go a different route with you.
 
Please tell me, oh wise one who quotes from the Bible, what I should say to my teenage son who looks up to said person and asks about the situation?  Should I say "Son, are you without sin?  Should you cast the first stone?", or how about this one "Son, what grownups do in their own time is their business.  You should not concern yourself with that.  When you're a grownup then you can also decide if you want to go that route."  Or how about "Son, what are you talking about?  This is nothing but a bunch of gossip that doesn't concern us.  What?  She came along to a practice?  So what?  We are Christians and we don't cast the first stone.  What others do is none of our concern, even if you do look up to them and they do not hide it."
 
And before you say "Well, how does your son know about it?".  They know.  I just asked him a very simple question regarding the grade changing investigation to see if he was even aware of it (we have not talked about it, nor have we talked about anything else pertaining to the situation).  Names, dates, times, schools and whatever else you want to know came out of that boy's mouth.  I learned more in 30 seconds from that boy that I have since the investigation started.  They know.  And they justify it based on who the adult is.  In this case, a role model.
 
You see, my friend HH, it's so different when it involves someone your child admires, respects, considers a role model.  See, if he is not taught that this type of behavior is improper, he's going to grow up and repeat the behavior using this person as justification ("Well, HE did it, so it must be OK").  No, HH, sometimes you can't look the other way.  You have to say "enough is enough".  Frankly, I could care less what people do in their spare time, as long as it doesn't affect me.  Guess what?  It's affecting me by getting to my child.  I get to play interference when my kid is affected by it.  Does that compute with you?  Fidelity and loyalty are very important traits that I have taught to my children.  I cannot allow someone to undo them by flaunting improper behavior.
 
It's time for him to sing the Jimmy Swaggart song.  That's the only thing that could possibly rescue the situation, but even that may be too late.  I'm hoping that you had your head out of the Bible long enough to read this.  The problem exists.  It's public.  It needs to go away, and no amount of out of context scripture quoting will make it go away.  Only the involved parties can make it go away.

Amen and Alleluia!  Can't put in an exact quote, but doesn't it say somewhere in the good book to teach your children in the way of the Lord?  Not look the other way and ignore it.  That's different than casting a stone...