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El Orange said:
Bill is kinda silly as there are very few multimillionaire high school football coaches.

But more importantly, **** Teddy Bridgewater's backstabbing ***.
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I would hope thats why they kept the threshold low. Not an even playing field if a couple of guys have made NFL money.

That said policing this will be intresting to say the least.
 
404Usernamenotfound said:
The issue is the "ethical" part. How are you going to ensure its ethical? What if Coach A giving money to student B is his way of controlling him? Now the athlete owes him, now he is beholden to him. Is that ethical? At what point is coach doing it for himself and not the kid?

where is the line between generous coach looking out for an underprivileged kid and a grifter looking to take advantage of a potential high earner?

HS football is not typically a revenue generating sport. Ask yourself why a HS coach, who are by and large of modest means, can/will/needs to drop more than 15k personally on kids? The rules are in place to limit cheating or other nefarious behavior that can arise from large amounts of cash being handed out.

Further, in your examples you fail to mention that said coach can donate what he wants to an athletics department. he can donate his entire salary if he wants.

In a perfect world where everyone is on honest actor - sure limits are stupid. But in real life, limiting financial contributions a coach can give a student makes sense when you consider student-coach power imbalance, amateur nature of hs sports, and possibility of coercion or predatory behavior.
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I’m saying to let the school’s students find a way to raise the money. I’m not talking only about football. The schools never nurture that at any age.
It’s too rigid and designed to create workers and not creators. That’s why the wealthiest of the world would never allow their kids to attend a public school.
As far as football and grifters….
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These kids are getting meals, extra training, transportation, clothes, and anything else they can from people as soon as they flash any talent. The school board, DOE, Florida Athletic Association is never changing that.
And when it comes down to where they go to college, you better be taking those people into consideration.
Remember when coaches would get hired by programs and their former players would commit to the school that hired him?
Do you even know the type of sht that goes down in pee wee football down here like underground gambling?

Do you even know what goes on in high school football?
Limiting a coach from donating money to his program is just allowing it to go further under the table and laughable honestly.
 
passitback said:
Parental support, or lack thereof, is the biggest indicator of a student's success -academically, socially, emotionally, athletically, we can do this all day.

I am inclined to believe that it is a bigger factor than socioeconomics, but America aint ready for that conversation.
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I almost got fired for talking about this story at work.
I got pulled to the side and threatened.
This is 100% factual.

I was taking biochemistry at fiu during a short summer term.
Class started on a Wednesday.
The professor began by saying that this was 4 credit class with a 3 credit lab in a semester that was 3 weeks shorter.
He added that the drop date was Friday and he knew a lot of us needed to perform well for either medical school or allied health degrees.
He stated that there would at least one test and one quiz per week.

Now this was the 90’s and we weren’t so politically correct and could actually speak our minds.
Monday’s class started and he said
“I see we have a few drops and honestly not as much as I thought”
“I want everyone in here that was raised in a 2 parent home to raise theirs hands up”

Everyone had their hands up except 2 kids. There was at least 50-60 students in there.

Now, I was older than most of the class after serving four years. But those four years made me a little wiser. I automatically knew where he was headed, but also knew that he had a huge set of balls to actually say what he was about to say.

“Don’t let anyone tell you that 2 parents in the home doesn’t matter”


He walked over to the side where both of them were and said “you guys are the exception and I commend you for being here”

I’ve been in medicine since 2004 and I can tell you that the number of medical residents that come from a single parent home are outnumbered by those from 2 parent homes by a huge margin.
 
Moral of the story — be a teacher in the Northeast or a millionaire ex-NFL-player-turned-HS-football-coach in the Southeast. Otherwise there’s no money in public school teaching or coaching.
 
Groz73Cane said:
If they can even have a Union. The right to work States are Union killers.
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Ironically there does not appear to be much correlation between teachers starting salaries, adjusted for cost of living, and whether the State is a right to work state.


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Source: Learning Policy Institute.
 
pacusmc said:
I almost got fired for talking about this story at work.
I got pulled to the side and threatened.
This is 100% factual.

I was taking biochemistry at fiu during a short summer term.
Class started on a Wednesday.
The professor began by saying that this was 4 credit class with a 3 credit lab in a semester that was 3 weeks shorter.
He added that the drop date was Friday and he knew a lot of us needed to perform well for either medical school or allied health degrees.
He stated that there would at least one test and one quiz per week.

Now this was the 90’s and we weren’t so politically correct and could actually speak our minds.
Monday’s class started and he said
“I see we have a few drops and honestly not as much as I thought”
“I want everyone in here that was raised in a 2 parent home to raise theirs hands up”

Everyone had their hands up except 2 kids. There was at least 50-60 students in there.

Now, I was older than most of the class after serving four years. But those four years made me a little wiser. I automatically knew where he was headed, but also knew that he had a huge set of balls to actually say what he was about to say.

“Don’t let anyone tell you that 2 parents in the home doesn’t matter”


He walked over to the side where both of them were and said “you guys are the exception and I commend you for being here”

I’ve been in medicine since 2004 and I can tell you that the number of medical residents that come from a single parent home are outnumbered by those from 2 parent homes by a huge margin.
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That's an awesome story, and pretty spot on. Thanks for your service
 
rekofred said:
I'm an elementary school principal and my teachers routinely spend ridiculous amounts on supplies including clothes, backpacks, shoes socks, food. You name it. The state gives 300 to them and the district throws in a bit more depending on budget and grant funds that may be available. But never enough. We fund raise like crazy to try and offset as much as possible, but teachers will do whatever it takes for their kids to be Happy, safe and successful. Even if it means going broke.
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Respect.
 
E1k said:
Imagine having to pass a bill because a coach ordered an uber for a kid to get home or paid for kids to eat before and/or after games. What a ***** disgrace
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This is Florida. Anytime someone underprivileged gets something it has to be heavily scrutinized by every level of local and state government. Meanwhile there’s a “clinic” in every shopping center scamming Medicare daily.
 
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Coach Macho said:
I mean... coaches been buying food and users for kids since day one, this just makes it legal.

Here's the bill I'm more happy about...

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Senate Bill 538 (2026), sponsored by Sen. Corey Simon, aims to boost compensation for Florida high school athletic coaches by allowing booster funds to be paid directly to them. It also revises eligibility for extracurricular activities and shifts some policy control from districts to governing associations to help retain coaching talent.

Key Aspects of SB 538 (2026 Regular Session):
•Coach Compensation: Allows public schools to increase pay for coaches using funds raised by boosters and support organizations, bypassing some union-negotiated salary schedules.
•Extracurricular Eligibility: Revises requirements for student participation in interscholastic/intrascholastic activities.
•Transfer Process: Standardizes transfer eligibility and sets specific timelines for eligibility appeals.
•Support: The bill has gained support to prevent poaching of coaches by other states, with proponents arguing current structures often result in pay below minimum wage.
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You and @gogeta4 (no offense to anyone I'm missing)...

choose to work with HS kids when you could do something else...

incredibly noble of you to do so...great work...
 
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RF-4CCane said:
Ironically there does not appear to be much correlation between teachers starting salaries, adjusted for cost of living, and whether the State is a right to work state.


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Source: Learning Policy Institute.
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Interesting, but starting salaries have to be competitive to attract candidates. Where Unions theoretically earn their keep is in contract negotiations. Salary ladders, advanced Ed compensation, benefits, retaliatory protection, etc. Without any Union backing teachers are pretty much on their own against a stacked deck. Just sayin’
 
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