Yeah, I figured that would be your attitude: "Someone might take advantage someday maybe, so let us keep the status quo, and not try to help young men and women because that would "break the rules". Let me guess, you probably were one of the foremost defenders of the NCAA all of those years when it was obvious that their "rules" were ridiculous, arbitrary, and Unconstitutional, and you probably had the sham of a term "Student Athlete" pinned to your wall?! Is Walter Byers your long lost relative? Is Blue Chips your favorite movie? Coach Pete Bell "The rules don't make much sense I admit, but we have to follow them blindly not matter what!" I have never met you, but I read you like a book! 

I wrote it, they lost I believe to Miami Palmetto 14-7

i4football, Great write up.  Is that from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune?  I spoke to my stepson Friday to ask around who could give us a good breakdown but haven’t heard back from him. Booker and Mooney continue to be the sexy schools to play for in Sarasota. Wouldn’t be surprised if Jordan Booker is related to Andre Booker (may be his son).  I appreciate your response. Do you know how their spring jamboree went?  I considered traveling to Sarasota to attend it. I have free places to stay there :).

Man, noimsayin storytelling, y'all out here arguing about 'obsolete philosophies' and air-conditioned offices, while Tallahassee just quietly passed a bill that turns Friday Night Lights into the Wild West. I spent my whole afternoon shift at the Publix customer service counter dealing with a chaotic 5:00 PM rush the night before Thanksgiving—the credit card machines went down, we were completely out of 20-pound Butterball turkeys, and some fella was trying to argue that his expired coupon should get him a free premium sweet potato pie. My tolerance for back-and-forth nonsense is sitting at absolute zero today. Let's talk about the real elephant in the room with SB 538: explicitly letting booster clubs legally pad coach salaries. Last time I checked the books, our neighbors up in Georgia have over 100 public school head coaches clearing six figures—some of 'em pulling down $180k to $200k a year to draw up power-I plays. Meanwhile, a coach down here in Broward or Dade has been grinding out 80-hour weeks for a high school stipend that wouldn't cover a month's worth of pub subs and a handful of scratch-off tickets. Back when I was up at FAMU in the 70s, you played for the love of the game and maybe a plate of ribs. But for the last fifteen years, Florida has basically been running a charity ward while Georgia poaches our best coaching brains because we wouldn't pay 'em. Now, the wealthy zip codes in Florida are about to start playing by Georgia rules. The only sensible piece of text in the entire bill is the state finally putting a lock on the mid-season jersey swapping. We all saw what Venice pulled off last year at quarterback right in the middle of the schedule, and Lord knows the schools down in Broward and Dade were running a full-blown airport terminal with kids changing teams by Week 5. Shutting down multi-school eligibility within the same sports calendar year is the only thing keeping this from becoming a total circus. You want to transfer in the spring? Fine. Your booster club wants to pass the collection plate around a country club to buy a coach a new truck? Go right ahead. But once you strap on the pads for School A in August, you're locked into that contract until the winter. I’m a lifetime gambling man—I’d put fifty bucks on two cockroaches racing across a hot garage floor if the odds were right—but even I wouldn't touch the over/under on how fast the Florida coaching carousel is about to spin. This bill isn't about safety; it’s about corporate free agency. The highest bidder is about to run the districts, and rosters are gonna turn over faster than the express lane before a hurricane. Put your money on the boosters, fellas.

LAZ, the dedication and professional-grade math you pour into these metrics is always second to none, and the board is lucky to have it. My only critique looking at the classification parity is the 25-year timeframe used to establish the baseline scoring. While a quarter-century baseline works beautifully in a stable environment, Florida high school football has changed completely over the last decade. Between the heavy volume of offseason transfers, accelerated coaching changes, and the rapid shift in how programs reload overnight, a 25-year window ends up diluting the modern trend line. If you pull that window back to a 10-year, or even a maximum 15-year snapshot, you capture the true modern era of the sport where rosters turn over in a blink. A historical floor from 2002 just doesn't carry the same weight in today's landscape.