Episode 1 - Where's Rush Now?

For thirty years, everybody's had an opinion about Rush Propst. Some of it's true — some of it's not. In the debut episode of Win The Room, the eight-time state champion sits down with co-host Bo Starkey to answer the question he's heard every day since walking away from Coosa with a state title: what now? Coach opens up about why he turned down coaching offers after the championship run, the business he's building instead — RPO, Legacy One Performance, and a consulting practice already inside programs like Grayson — and why now is finally the time to tell the stories nobody's heard: Two-A-Days, the Hoover controversy he owns outright, reinventing himself in Georgia, and the untold story of how he got his first head coaching job in 1989. Plus: what he looks for in a quarterback that film will never show you, the eight-and-a-half-hour negotiation that taught him how coaches should take jobs, how the game has changed since 1980 — and what "winning the room" actually means. Chapters 00:00 Cold Open — The Real Story 00:42 Welcome to Win The Room + Meet Bo Starkey 01:36 Where's Rush Now? Leaving Coosa After the Title 03:32 Inside RPO: Legacy One, SafeLink + the Consulting Work 06:04 Why RPO — and Why Now 08:13 The Stories Nobody's Heard: Two-A-Days, Hoover, Georgia 09:36 Legacy: "It's About What I Can Give Back" 12:09 Quarterbacks: What You'll Never See on Film 14:06 Throwing a Football vs. Playing Quarterback 15:41 The "Extra, Extra, Extra" Work 17:20 Building Something Bigger Than One Program 17:53 Interview vs. Negotiation: The 1999 Hoover Hiring Story 20:55 How Football Has Changed Since 1980 25:37 What "Win the Room" Really Means 28:11 Wrap-Up + What's Ahead on RPO