Mark Cannon said: This thread has me waxing nostalgic. Mark, it’s hard not to feel a bit nostalgic when the classic scripts start playing out. But while our friend down at the bottom of the page is busy trying to dig up old ghosts under his bed, the actual ledger in Tallahassee just changed the game. You’ve been around this circuit long enough to know the score. When the country club booster money officially becomes legal tender for coaching stipends under SB 538, does the old-school parity even stand a chance, or are we looking at a permanent multi-tier system in Florida?

Jambun, watching you try to untangle your own logic is the best entertainment on this board. You started this entire thread banging the drum for the "common sense" of Tallahassee's new legislation, but the second the actual economic ledger of SB 538 gets put in front of you, you drop a massive deflection in the pool to try and change the narrative. You explicitly claim that coaching salaries are a "complete other issue," yet in the very next sentence, you openly admit you know for a fact that booster clubs in Georgia and Texas are actively funding those coaches to build powerhouses. You are tripping over your own feet. You cannot praise a bill for "helping the kids" while completely ignoring that the exact same text legalizes the country-club collection plate model that funds corporate free agency. Telling Florida programs to fix a massive, structural compensation deficit by "getting more people to attend games" is completely detached from reality. Friday night gate receipts from standard working-class families aren't competing with private, six-figure booster supplements, and no amount of caps-lock "Joe Friday" routine changes the shift that just occurred in the rulebook. As for your parting shot—you're right about one thing, detective. When a post is this completely full of contradictions, the only sensible thing left to do is hit the lever. But before you flush, you better make sure you wipe. Because what you just discharged on this thread is guaranteed to leave you with some serious racing stripes.

This thread has me waxing nostalgic.

Well you are a lot closer to the 30,000 word mark with this latest unhinged rant. Coaching salaries in Florida have been a problem for at least 30 years, probably longer. This law aims to help the issues with young men and women who play high school sports getting the help that they deserve and need, coaching salaries is a complete other issue. It would be great if we could get thousands and thousands of people to attend high school football games in Florida, similar to Georgia and Texas, and that could help with coaching salaries for sure. Do you really believe that there are not boosters helping to pay coaches in Georgia and Texas, I know for a fact that it happens, and if there could be a way to get more people to care and attend high school football games in Florida, that would be a good first step in improving coaching salaries. One more thing "Toilet Man" DON'T FORGET TO FLUSH! 

I figured you did.