After lunch, he was back in his Toyota, punching the buttons on his phone and musing about coaching candidates who might restore football glory. In 2002, Nelson joined the board of the Touchdown Club, a now-70-year-old booster club. Whites have made decisions on behalf of the Black community for years, but when a white man is dismissed all of the sudden hell breaks loose, he said. Its just an honor, Propst told reporters. After some lean years for the Wildcats, he reckoned that if the team was going to lift its game, the Touchdown Club had to do the same. Due to federal privacy regulations, we are not able to create an athlete profile for students under 13 years old. Jerry McDonald is a Bay Area News Group sports general assignment writer and columnist for The Mercury News and East Bay Times with more than 40 years of experience. Rush Propst has been called the most famous high school football coach in America, which in 2006 was accurate. Get Exposure with college programs. MVHS is part of the Fremont Union High School District with approximately 2,350 students and 21 varsity sports. Cameron Penkoff Sr. Custer County. That would be Michael Nelson, the recently deposed (meaning both fired and placed under oath) executive director of Valdosta Highs Touchdown Club. Gone is his $32,000 annual salary, along with the good will of some of the Wildcat faithful. The abbreviated spring football season turned out to be the last for Matt Russi as Monte Vistas coach. Academy for Academic Excellence 5, Cobalt 3, Blythe Palo Verde Valley 12, Coachella Valley 6, Capistrano Valley Christian 6, Northview 5, Los Angeles Wilson 5, Valley Arts/Sciences 3, Maranatha 10, Cerritos Valley Christian 3, Santa Clarita Christian 11, Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 10, Village Christian 4, Heritage Christian 0, Western Christian 11, Southlands Christian 0, Beverly Hills 19, Compton Early College 2, Capistrano Valley 11, Capistrano Valley Christian 2, Cerritos Valley Christian 11, Peninsula 1, Coachella Valley 17, Henderson (Nev.) Foothill 1, Environmental Charter 20, Hawthorne Math/Science 12, Flintridge Prep 17, Lancaster Desert Christian 1, Newport Harbor 8, Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 5, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 12, Golden Valley 2, Visalia El Diamante 14, Ridgecrest Burroughs 1. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. FOOTBALL ASSISTANT, Monta Vista High School, 2023-2024 School Year Alisal High School. Viewers of the MTV reality show Two-a-Days saw Propst use his honeysuckle drawl and televangelist patter to bully, con and cajole his team to glory. Century 4, Placentia Valencia 2 . His only regret was that he never got to be a Valdosta Wildcat. Liberty (1-2) also lost running back Giancarlo Olveda, their second-leading rusher behind Bell this season, to injury on its first drive of the game. It was Nub, too, who secretly recorded the current coach musing about corrupt recruiting schemes he said were carried out by the likes of Kirby Smart, Nick Saban and even Bear Bryant, dead nearly four decades. Monte Vista High School - Monte Vista, CO - NFHS Network Anderson said. Nub Nelson is going viral. Rodemaker coached the team to a title in 2016. On the other hand, he racked up 119 wins and won two state championships, with back-to-back 15-0 seasons in 2014 and 2015.