A Little Too Much of the ... Two-A-Days

Wow, crazy story out of Alabama. Hoover High, the powerhouse high school football program featured in MTVs reality series' Two-A-Days has come under intense scrutiny after an extensive, and expensive, state investigation concluded that star players received preferential treatment in the classroom, coach Rush Probst may have mishandled funds from Hoover's televised games and, supported a second, not-so-secret family in another county.

Here are some of the key findings of the state investigation, according to the Birmingham (Ala.) News:

``The investigation concluded a few blue-chip football players got preferential treatment in the classroom, with one player improperly being allowed to take a test three times to get a passing grade. An assistant principal implicated in the favoritism quit last week.

``Hoover knowingly played ineligible players in a junior varsity game last year, and an assistant coach went to the practice of a rival school to spy on its workouts

``Hoover Superintendent Andy Craig asked the Alabama Ethics Commission to determine if Propst illegally received outside income from Hoover's televised games and other deals and failed to file reports required of all public employees.

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``Perhaps most damning in Bible-belt Alabama — where football coaches often are held in the kind of reverence as preachers — the board's investigation concluded that Propst, who is married with three children, supported a second, "not-so-secret" family in another county where he used to work.