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I read a quote in SI that said Hoover has probably the best high school team in Alabama in the past 35 years. Seemed like an arbitrary statement to me, impossible to substantiate.

My question is this; what team around 1971 was a 4A powerhouse in the state of Alabama?
 
NYBamaFan

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Sidney Lanier won it in '66, '67, & '68.

Robert E Lee won it the next 2 years

Decatur won it in '71

Banks the next 2 years

Then Homewood in '74

Then Mountain Brook two years in a row.

In other words, no team has even come close the what Hoover has put together the last 6 years (5 champions). This year, they are almost assured their 6th in 7 years. That is just amazing considering the turnover in HS football...
 
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Didnt Vestavia Hills dominate for a good many of years before Hoover was the powerhouse? I thought i remembered them being pretty good
 
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Jimbo4Bama said:
Didnt Vestavia Hills dominate for a good many of years before Hoover was the powerhouse? I thought i remembered them being pretty good
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Vestavia used to have a dominant baseball program, but I don't think they've ever had a football program that's come close to what Hoover is doing. Like alatider said in a previous post, Hoover is as much like a small college as it is a high school.
 
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Hoover's football team gets the most attention but their entire boys and girls athletic programs have been almost as dominant the past several years.
 
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You will get no argument from me that Hoover is the dominant FB program. But I would like to ask one question: would you want your son to play for Rush Propst?
 
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tidehawk said:
You will get no argument from me that Hoover is the dominant FB program. But I would like to ask one question: would you want your son to play for Rush Propst?
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I don't know enough to answer. I played for Don Woods. He was very tough in front of the team, and very thoughtful one on one. Propst might treat his players differently as individuals...
 
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POWERLINEMAN42 said:
Did anyone catch the interview on Rick and Bubba with Propst? They even had former players calling in defending him saying he isnt as bad as they make him out to be on tv. Thats what happens with editing.
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I didn't catch that, but I don't listen to Rick and Bubba. Can't stand those guys, and that's before you factor the in the auburn love.

I would have liked to have heard that, though. The only impression I have of him is exactly like you said and I'd like to hear him speak outside of that dumb "Two-a-days" show.
 
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