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You are absolutely wrong here. Only communists buy into Karl Marx. Anyway, it sounds like your heels are set in on this so I will let it go. Back to football.

Wow this has my head spinning. I will reel this in and avoid the political stuff rather than hijack this thread. I am, though, confused about what you mean by Bridgewater donating his money directly to MNW versus giving it to a wealth redistribution process? What exact process are you referring to? Are you talking about shared gate receipts? I have never liked this policy and have always preferred the home team doing a 60-40 share of their gate with the visiting team rather than donating to a large pool that is divided up evenly. Here in Pinellas County we pool our gate and there are just a few teams propping up everyone else. There has to be a better way. By the way, you might be confusing communism with socialism. The processes you describe are socialist as well as the mayors you are referring to. Socialism is very different than communism despite similar concepts of sharing. Communism is bad all around. Socialism isn't so bad and there are no purely capitalist societies out there as they all have some forms of socialism, including the USA. Try not to get caught up in the anger baiting headlines and just read up on where everyone stands. I am not a fan of the NY mayor elect but my reasoning is he is too far on the left. Extremism is bad no matter which side you align with. Oops, I did go there, my bad.

TFA was doing way more than just a few slap on the wrist actions. They are recruiting around the state and haven't stopped. MNW probably has an outcry because a coach did it out of the kindness of his heart and love for the kids. Hard to look at that in the same way as TFA which is all business and gives zeros shits about their kids. To be fair, TFA kids give zero shits about their school as it is a mutual business decision. However, rules are rules and Teddy broke the rules so consequences are due no matter the intent.

I know "communism" is a common scare word brought up in the political world just to easily dismiss any ideas of a shared revenue concept. In the world of sports, uncapped spending creates a great divide in competitiveness and hurts the sport overall. If we didn't have any type of distributed money from the government, only a few schools could afford to field a team. Football is incredibly expensive compared to other sports. The big programs do in fact have a huge budget advantage over the field despite the shared revenue anyway. The solution to this is actually to do whatever other states are doing to fund their programs. Georgia coaches make serious money and coaching is a legit career there. How do they afford it while Florida sucks ass?

I suddenly wish Bridgewater had known he was breaking the rules and kept it on the DL. He obviously cares a lot about that program and those kids. Hate to see a guy who cares like that get taken down while the true cheaters are out there doing their thing.

Money games are definitely a way to build a program from the ground up

I don't know why this state is so far behind every other state football powers regarding coaching salaries and financial support? More evidence is Teddy having to use $14k of his own money last year. On a side note, isn't paying for uber rides an impermissible benefit? I mean if you didn't recruit kids out of your area, they wouldn't need those rides anyway Teddy... but I digress. https://www.the-sun.com/sport/14663753/teddy-bridgewater-miami-northwestern-donations/#:~:text=The free agent quarterback Bridgewater,team%2C the Miami Northwestern Bulls.&text=Bridgewater made a long plea,by the school through donations.

Sarasota Riverview @ Port Charlotte Riverview gonna get boat raced

Well then it is not done correctly. If you pull from a schedule database (that obviously exists in max preps), then the tables are always up to date. Now the tables all have to be correct which we know is currently not the case. I believe each team has a deadline to enter and/or correct their schedules so any current errors should be cleaned up by the fall.

I'm always amazed there are enough kids to support three keys high schools: Key West, Coral Shores and Marathon high schools.

I was just looking at the state of GA HC top 100 salaries list and it is crazy how much more they get paid than a Florida coach. Even the 100th ranked coach on the list makes $100k+. How the heck can other states pay coaches well while this dumb ass state, with the best talent pool in the nation, can't even pay a coach minimum wage for all the time they put in? https://www.si.com/high-school/georgia/georgia-high-school-football-top-100-head-coaching-salaries-01jwgttnkwbz

Both my boys wrestle and play football. I am very familiar with the home schooled wrestlers who are free agents wrestling for the various power programs in the state. I can say with great certainty that nearly 100% will not earn a college scholarship in wrestling because wrestling is literally the hardest sport to earn a full ride in. There are only 10 collegiate weight classes compared to 14 in high school. You could be the state champ at your weight class but to wrestle at the next level, you will also have to be better than other kids at a weight class above and below you. Additionally, there are only 70 D1 wrestling schools and not a single D3, D2 or D1 team in Florida. Finally, Pennsylvania is so far above every other state in wrestling that they will take half of the scholarships, leaving crumbs for everyone else. Last note, wrestling also has very poor NIL prospects. So kids that are sacrificing their HS experience to wrestle three hours away are doing it for only high school glory, nothing else. After wrestling is over, what can they do with their shitty education? The kids I know that are home school athletes pretty much just train all day. I wonder when they even go to school at home?

No, Rise Prep is a remote school where you typically dual enroll between online HS classes and Dade county community college classes, of which I'm sure most will choose the online DCCC class offerings. Student athletes at RPA can then choose any school to play for. This is how Broward athletes can attend. While RPA seems legit academically, the sketchy part is their role in sports where they are nothing short of true hired guns sent to various teams in the area. It just never "feels right" that a big portion of West Boca's team doesn't even attend West Boca.

Yeah the national team is 100% scholarship. I know a kid who transferred there as a non-scholarship varsity player (not the national team). Needless to say, his parents are loaded.

Yes. They have a strong presence in Broward too.