A new Florida law aims to increase pay and recognition for coaches and extracurricular administrators, giving them the option to be paid above their current union-negotiated supplement or have booster clubs raise money to supplement their pay. The current law allows coaches in some Florida counties to earn as little as $3,000 and others to make as much as $8,000 for their work.
– Jacksonville parents said their kids’ coaches showed up every day for the love of the game, not the paycheck. Now, a new Florida law aims to make that paycheck a little more worth it.
The legislation creates two paths for coaches and extracurricular administrators to receive higher pay. The first allows coaches to request that their superintendent pay them above their current union-negotiated supplement, which would place them in an administrative-type role. The second allows booster clubs to raise money to supplement coach pay — though some districts in the Jacksonville area do not currently allow that practice.
Under current law, coaches in some Florida counties earn as little as $3,000, while others make as much as $8,000 for their work. Gov. DeSantis signs new law aimed at stopping athletic recruiting, school hopping at Florida high schools “They’re out here for the love of the game and the students,” Reynolds said.
“They’re not out here for the money. They want to be out here. They should be recognized for it. ”“Absolutely incredible communication, expectations, responsibility, holds them accountable,” she said.
“Just everything is bigger than football, it’s bigger than sports. ” Clay Tousey, another Wolfson football parent, said coaches had become more than athletic instructors to the players.
“They are like substitute fathers for these guys,” Tousey said. “The head coach and Coach Wilson here is wonderful. He loves these kids, and they love him. But then there’s the assistant coaches too — a football staff has probably eight, ten coaches who are all so dedicated who get close to the boys and the boys get close to them.
”“It’s long, long overdue, and hopefully the start of more,” he said.
“I’m sure this is just still a relative drop in the bucket compared to all the work they put in. ”“For the coaches, for the arts, for the band teachers, for all the extracurriculars, they need all the money that they can get,” she said. The law was the result of years of reporting by News4Jax Sports Editor Justin Barney on coaching pay issues across Florida. Ariel Schiller joined the News4Jax team as an evening reporter in September of 2023.
She comes to Jacksonville from Tallahassee where she worked at ABC27 as a Weekend Anchor/Reporter for 10 months. Before joining the “night beat” at WJXT in 2024, Walter spent 10 years in Miami at WSVN and CBS Miami. Walter first picked up a camera in 1998 in Charleston, SC.
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