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HELLO EVERYONE! I know it has been a while since I posted here, but I have some updates—and this is actually good news! 1. I am in the midst of girls' flag football season, which, as you might know (unless you have been sleeping under a rock), has been taking off across the country, Florida has been the leader of the sport since the late 1990s, when Palm Beach County launched it as a club sport, and it has only grown since and is on the verge of becoming a Division I sport. I've been generating more content this season than any other platform for girls' flag football in Florida, and I am pretty proud of it. Also, my partnership with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Jaguars PREP helps bring even more focus to what is going on with the sport. 2. I dumped the app... yeah, please, no one ever suggested to me having an app again. First, they are a money pit, and unless you have a dedicated digital team, it really can bog you down it became my Achilles heel. Second, they don't bring the revenue they promise unless you have millions of fans (maybe I am exaggerating some, but you get the point, right?). Third, there are some other things I want to say, but I won't but always trust your gut. Being circled and talked to by someone on the outside was the worst. 3. Dumping the app leads to this point: I should have never gotten rid of subscriptions, but I did launch the app, and honestly, that helped the site. Well, the subscriptions are back (in a bit different format), and so far, it has been a great thing in the first month! So, as far as the subscriptions go there are two different levels, both charged on a yearly basis: • Premium Season Ticket - $59.99 • Season Ticket - $39.99 You can view more about what each level entails here: https://floridahsfootball.com/membership-levels/ Yes, there is an unlock 24-hour ticket, but not everything will get that, requiring one of the two levels mentioned above. So why is there no monthly option? Honestly, it costs more to maintain a monthly option because of the potential of having to track people down if they have a failure with a credit card on payments. Having a yearly option only for both levels give me a streamlined process of who is going to renew once a year and which month, and it is easier to track down. The 24-hour ticket also doesn't require me to do much and allows people access to select content without creating too much hassle. 4. New content is going up almost daily—yes, there is a lot of content on both sides. The tackle and flag are going up almost daily, including history content! I will create a new post with content to check out, and I might create a weekly thread of published content so you all can check it out! 5. Sponsorships are now Partnerships. I took a hard look and realized this might have been one of my biggest downsides. I want to partner with those and have partnerships with companies and businesses that believe in the power of high school athletics as we do. Ultimately, it is already working, as the Florida Coaches Coalition approached me a few weeks ago after some controversy stirred up on the socials, and I ultimately landed a multi-year deal with them. This is not the last, and I have some pretty ambitious plans to grow this. You can see more here: https://floridahsfootball.com/partnerships/ | You can also view our Partnerships Media Kit here: https://floridahsfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Florida-HS-Football-Partnerships-Media-Kit.pdf 6. Live Shows—We're Working on getting those back on and might even reformulate what we do. I would like some insight into whether you all like the regional shows or would rather see one statewide show that has different things for the different regions. You can leave me your thoughts in the comments. 7. Additional Writers and Internships - I have already brought on Christopher Lyke, the original Founder, and Editor-In-Chief of TexasHSFootball.com, before he sold it almost a decade ago. I have been friends with Chris for a long time, and he will do exceedingly well helping us out. As a matter of fact, Chris is the one who helped us get the forum software we have now years ago, and it has been great! As for internships, applications are opened and accepted on a rolling basis, so if you know anyone at the high school or college level looking for exposure, please send them over to this link: https://floridahsfootball.com/inside/internships/ I think that is all I have for the moment. Feel free to ask questions! Thanks!

Go Jambun...GO!!!!!!

So, since things appear to be a little slow right now, I'll bite. A lot depends on what you mean by "buy players." As I suspect most of us know, there are high schools in Florida that have provided compensation or some other form of benefits to athletes and/or their families to "convince" the athlete to attend their school instead of staying put and playing for their neighborhood public school. Now that the state legislature has torn down the boundary line fences and allows school choice, and now that the FHSAA has jumped on the NIL bandwagon, the things that happened in the shadows is now taking place in bright sunlight. Clearly, I could start naming schools that have participated in the process in the past and who appear to be participating in the process presently. Many of those schools have posters on this site (based on posts and screen names). Private schools provide "scholarships" to kids who, candidly, would not be able to afford the tuition at the school they attend, but, if we're being honest, would not otherwise have a realistic chance of gaining admission to these schools (or any interest in doing so). Other schools (and let's be clear, when I say "schools," I'm casting a broad net and including coaches, athletic directors, schools administrators, alums and boosters) find/provide housing for coveted athletes -- although this practice seemingly is not as important now that kids can go to whatever school they choose, assuming there is adequate capacity. Car dealerships owned by fervent boosters provide overpaid jobs to the parents of the kids so that the kid and one of his parents can live in the new city for less than a year. Yeah, I know it sounds like an episode from Friday Night Lights, but it doesn't just happen in Southwest Texas . . . it happens in Southwest Florida, too. Look, I understand the desire of families to put their kids in the best possible position to excel, develop and ultimately, earn a scholarship so that they can attend college -- especially when circumstances might otherwise prevent that were it not for the free ride. That said, with almost all sports, but certainly for football, colleges can find the talent and there are multiple ways for standout players to be seen and recognized (including camps). So, in answer to your question, there are plenty of people out there -- coaches, administrators, and boosters -- who care enough about winning a state championship to put their jobs on the line or share a small token of their wealth to encourage the proverbial missing piece of the puzzle to play for "their" team. It's the world we live in.

Good to see perennial Tennessee power Baylor taking a big chance playing a top S FLA school. WTF

With officials from the STA Officials Association, no doubt.

Vs USA Chaminade vs St Frances,MD AHP vs St Joes Philly West Broward vs Corner Canyon,UT Manatee vs St John Bosco,CA STA vs Mater Dei,CA Spruce Creek vs Avon,OH Santaluces vs Baylor,TN Cardinal Newman vs Roman Catholic,PA Pine Forest vs Daphne,AL Gadsden Co vs East St Louis,IL West Boca vs Bergen Catholic,NJ Pensacola Cath vs Montgomery Cath,AL Blountstown vs Neal,AL Columbus vs Good Counsel,MD Gulf Shores vs Choctaw Enterprise vs Choctaw

Vs Georgia Gadsden County vs Tift County The First Academy vs Milton West Nassau vs Frederica Academy Columbia vs Coffee Florida High vs Thomas Co Central Manatee vs Lowndes Bartram Trail vs Ware County Gadsden vs Coffee Mainland vs Coffee Episcopal vs Savannah Country Day Hollis Christian vs Mt Bethel Christian Eagles View vs Mt Bethel Christian Ambassadors vs Mt Bethel Christian Piper vs Peachtree Ridge

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the FHSAA set up a system that would encourage outstanding teams to play other outstanding teams and bad teams to play bad teams? If only someone could think of a system that did exactly that.

What if this is a ploy to get to transfers and promise more exposure. Street agents are hard at work, "if you come to manatee you will get some great film going against Bosco". Potential transfer, "jeez mr street agent, that sounds great. I will tell my mom and dad to put in for school choice". And then they proceed to lose by 50 with no highlights. SMH

https://x.com/SpotoFootball/status/1903915154414182700?t=eDyOhR8MbnxUvK3AFe_8Tw&s=19 spoto

Dillard should have taken the place of Piper against Peachtree Ridge in my opinion.

Wish Dillard could’ve got in the broward vs USA slot this year. It’s been 2 years since we’ve been in it. the atmosphere that Saturday night, the exposure , the way the whole stadium was decorated for that game was like no other. and to top it off we won 35-0 in front of a standing room only crowd one of the top 5 DMV schools at the time. One of the best nights I’ll never forget.

Manatee will get boat raced in this matchup so I hope they get something out of it like a payout or transfers in that makes it worth the embarrassment.

Have you thought about there doesn't have to be a bill? Maybe a mandate directly from the FLDOE? Sit back and watch it all unfold or maybe reach out to the FCC. Also, you're one of those keyboard warriors who'd rather talk about what others aren't doing than what you're doing. What have you done to help advocate for higher coaching pay? Sit down behind your computer and watch others sacrifice their time to make it happen? You're a joke, Coach. Good luck going 2-10 next season. Go ask the FACA guys what they've done to advocate for your pay the last 50 years...

Is this a different school than Don Bosco ?

Gulf Shores, AL at Choctaw Enterprise, AL at Choctaw

St Thomas and mater dei right out of the gate will faceoff here we go

St Thomas

https://x.com/LMRamsFootball/status/1899644560348717324?t=7hD1w2Oixe0DRLeU5EZlBw&s=19 lake mary

Mater Dei is heading to play STA from what I hear. Crazy thing is STA was scheduled to play Milton GA and then ESPN came in and said they will televise it if they boot Milton out and put MD in. And the Broward event said SAY LESS!!! Lol. So maybe MNW can play Milton. Only issue is the Broward event gave a good travel stipend so I don’t know where MNW would get the money to help unless a sponsor came through

I think something is going on at Booker T. Washington. They didn't have a marching band 2024 season and now the football coach is leaving. Also you're right about the talent coming in. I hope Northwestern can play top school if Mater Dei is off the table. Some of these might be good to see. Bishop Gorman Buford Desoto Duncanville St. Francis Academy St. John Bosco

https://x.com/SethSnwfdn/status/1897364732467929182?t=zd5Px00I6UQcJ8qjR36OOw&s=19

I’ll take SJB to win by more than 23 or more

You would still have bone headed coaches prostituting their team out to some elite program to come take advantage of. SMDH

Horrible. Manatee coach is gonna get his kids embarrassed by SJB. At home. I hate when coaches do that. Force a game on them they have zero shot at winning, and watch them get their ass beat up and down the field all night. Manatee loses everyone off a team who got beat down by Lowndes. SJB will clobber them via the running clock.

Blountstown https://x.com/CoachWaggonerGT/status/1895684888894009416

https://x.com/TheOfficialPFFB/status/1895593418711245260?t=bKKo6-4KuH3UcfTAL8yGMQ&s=19 pine Forest

Bergen, Atlantic, and Cardinal Newman will give them some tough games. The rest should be quick work. I’m not counting the spring/KOC games of course

West Boca https://x.com/WestBocaBullsFB/status/1888615481478688875

Yeah you make some valid points. I can imagine it's much more exciting to play for a team with a high level schedule and exposure than a mid-tier team. It's a shame though that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer in this era due to this. The traditionally great teams will always be great due to the talent-rich areas they typically draw from but 20+ years ago, even Lakeland would have to overcome a few holes in their roster in any given year. Now they just fill holes with recruits as needed. If they had an open division then I would not have such a problem with this. Let them all play in their own tournament.

I may be a bit ignorant to the transfer rules, so please excuse me for that, but I do not know if it so much buying players. We all know recruiting goes on, but to my understanding, schools do not have to offer jobs or rent out a residence in the school district anymore for a kid to go there with school choice. If a kid wants to go to a school in another school district, they just have to apply during the school choice window, and if there is a seat available at said school, they can get in. Now, at these schools, most available seats most likely go to athletes and we all know why. How schools fudge that or legitmize it, over a student who wants to go there purely for academic reasons, I have no idea. I will just bring it back to the recruiting aspect and possible NIL money. That is my understanding in how it works. Please feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong.

Often unspoken in this debate is the matter of fan support. The states paying much better than Florida also have much better/more substantial fan support. This makes paying coaches much higher salaries or stipends possible. The fan support in Florida is underwhelming to say the least. The state doesn't have a single program- anywhere- whose fan support would be considered impressive or even comparable to the top programs in Georgia, etc. Lakeland has long been considered one of the best in this area, but the program has undeniably been weakened by the emergence of private schools Victory and Lakeland Christian. It's not just that some good players pass on playing for Lakeland to instead play at a Christian school, but also families and thus fan support that previously went to Lakeland have ended up at one of the privates. The big dawgs in Miami sometimes get huge crowds out to Traz Powell, but financial contributions to programs are inconsistent at best. The Panhandle is more similar to Georgia and Alabama in culture, but they haven't produced a true state power in decades. The relatively new Sumner program might be one of the best bets to become a true power in this area. But, I'm not sure of the scale of success that is possible for them.

I just wanted to bring this post back because of all the talk of the "Florida Coaches Coalition." Not a single bill was introduced to mandate higher coach pay (especially by Representative Adam Anderson, who was mentioned in the original article). But a bill about Hearing Aids and Sovereign Wealth Fund, we can get those from that mentioned State Representative.

Billy Sparacio, The only Head Coach First Baptist of Naples has ever had, has been dismissed. Expect some players & coaches to depart, similar to what happened at Palmetto Ridge & Golden Gate in the past few seasons. Billy Sparacio explains ouster from First Baptist