A simple message, accompanied by a simple motto: #PayFLCoaches.
The movement officially started back in December, action taken after years of frustration over the lack of investment in Florida’s high school football coaches.
James Thomson, head football coach at Winter Haven High School and Clinic Director/Co-founder of the Florida’s Coaches Coalition, had heard enough from peers in the state to realize that there was a need for unity.
“The consensus amongst coaches for the last 20-30 years has been that they are drastically underpaid,” he said in an email this week. “Dr. Andrew Ramjit, the Brevard County AD, decided to start thinking about solutions.