Georgia high school football is among the best in the country, and is taken very seriously. However, Colquitt County head coach Rush Propst took his sport way too seriously on Friday.

The coach head-butted one of his players in anger during Colquitt County’s state semifinal game, causing blood to rush from Propst’s head:

This isn’t such a great idea, considering that you’re head-butting a kid. This display of behavior is obviously — and grossly — inappropriate. For a coach to even think about head-butting a player represents a spectacular abandonment of prudence and basic common sense.

As a grown man, high school football coach or otherwise, you should never head-butt anyone.

It’s also impossible to look past the fact that Propst head-butted somebody who had a helmet on. You have to be pretty insane to do something like that… and that’s not a throwaway line.

Consider Propst’s history.

If the name sounds familiar, it might be because Propst gained notoriety for coaching Hoover High School in Alabama, and being on the MTV series Two-A-Days, which covered Hoover football for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. Propst was not reluctant to make himself something of a publicity magnet.

Just to refine that last point, this is hardly the first time Propst’s name has emerged in relationship to both controversy and appalling behavior. Throughout his tenure at Hoover, Propst had trouble with player eligibility, and made plenty of news for his alleged extramarital affairs.

Propst might be a good football coach in terms of Xs, Os, and scoreboard results, but he hardly sounds like somebody who should be around young men. It doesn’t seem very safe, and he can’t be a great influence, either.

About Harry Lyles Jr.

Harry Lyles Jr. is an Atlanta-based writer, and a Georgia State University graduate.