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Rush Propst will not go gentle into that good night. Some interested parties in Pell City, Alabama, wanted him gone.

But the high school football coach’s version of Freddy Krueger lives to coach another day.

Propst’s job was on the chopping block during a Pell City board of education special meeting on Wednesday.

The school system’s superintendent raised the issue to the board, but no one even raised a hand to vote on it.

So, how did we get here?

According to reporters who cover Rush Propst’s latest news-making event, ‘jealousy and vindictiveness’ tried to do him in.

That’s what board member Norman Wilder told AL.com’s Ben Thomas.

As for Propst, this kind of disturbance is old hat. He’s used to this sort of distraction off of his team’s football fields.

“Our work here is not done. Obviously there was a movement somewhere, but the powers that be saw fit to keep me as head coach,” Propst told Thomas.

”There is always going to be back biting. You are going to have to fight through things, but the good thing is better days are ahead.”

The thing about Propst is, he finds ways to win football games.

Now, astute fans of Alabama high school football will point out that Rush Propst and Pell City went 1-9 in 2023.

Watch this group of Pell City fans and some of Rush Propst’s players react to the result of this meeting.

Tell me that his career doesn’t in the very least inspire some hope that the team will play better moving forward:

One school board member who is in support of keeping Coach Propst called for the resignation of the Superintendent. The crowd erupted into applause pic.twitter.com/CuDTBflYuh

— Gillian Brooks (@GillianBNews) April 24, 2024

Rush Propst is a character of un-matched proportions in modern high school football history.

He got famous on Two-A-Days.

He became infamous during stops at Georgia high school football powerhouses Valdosta and Colquitt County.

There’s no telling what will happen next in Pell City, Alabama.

Propst hasn’t made his last headline for something that has nothing to do with football.

But by now we all know that no one is built to handle it and navigate it – for better or for worse – quite like he is.

The “do not go gentle into that good night” scene from Interstellar still gives me goosebumps every time. pic.twitter.com/f2kExLQWEP

— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) August 6, 2020