🏈 IT'S CLINIC SEASON THE BIGGEST FOOTBALL CLINIC IN AMERICA JUST GOT BIGGER! @PayFLCoaches and Coach of the Year Football Clinics, the largest football clinic organization in America, are coming together to bring you something DIFFERENT. If you thought 2026 was BIG, 2027 changes EVERYTHING you knew about football clinics. More ball. Bigger names. More opportunities to connect. Bigger socials. An experience built around COACHES. This isn't just another football clinic. This is GAMETIME. 📍 The Westin Lake Mary 📅 February 25–27, 2027 🔥 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Let's be real. You already KNOW you're going to be there. SO WHY WAIT TO REGISTER? Secure your spot today at gametimeclinics.com GET IN THE GAME. #GametimeClinics #FloridaCoachesCoalition #CoachOfTheYear #FootballCoaches #ClinicSeason

What happened in Seminole County sets a terrible precedent. The Coalition will be at the @SCPSInfo Board meeting tonight at 5:30 PM. When one coach is treated this way, every coach in Florida should pay attention. @WFTV @fox35orlando @news6wkmg @WBTWNews13 @orlandosentinel

🚨 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 🚨 GAMETIME CLINICS 📅 FEBRUARY 25–27, 2027 📍 THE WESTIN LAKE MARY COACHES… IT’S TIME. You heard about last year. You saw the pictures. You watched the videos. If you missed out last year, you DO NOT want to miss out this year. 2027 is going to be… BIGGER. BETTER. MORE COACHES. MORE SPEAKERS. MORE CONNECTIONS. MORE EXPERIENCES. Three days built for COACHES. 🔥 ELITE speakers 🔥 Football. Leadership. Culture. Development. 🔥 Coaches Block Party 🔥 Networking 🔥 Awards Banquet 🔥 And MUCH MORE. Last year was just the beginning. This year, we’re taking GAMETIME to another level. 🏈 GAMETIME CLINICS 2027 📅 February 25–27 📍 The Westin Lake Mary REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. gametimeclinics.com DON’T HEAR ABOUT IT AFTERWARD. BE THERE. #GametimeClinics #FloridaCoaches #BecauseFloridaCoachesMatter #CoachingMatters #TheClinics #Coalition

🚨 WHO PROTECTS THE COACH? We waited a week before speaking publicly because we wanted to see how this situation would play out. We also reached out directly to the coach involved. He thanked us for reaching out and informed us that he would be handling the situation himself. We respect that decision and will respect his space. But respecting his decision does not mean the Florida Coaches Coalition is going to stay quiet about the ramifications of what happened. A coach was attacked in his own locker room by an angry parent following a game. A member of his coaching staff stepped in to defend him. Days later, both coaches resigned in the middle of the season. And after all of that, blame is being directed toward the coaches? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Let's stop dancing around the bigger issue. HOW DID AN ANGRY PARENT GET ACCESS TO A COACH IN HIS LOCKER ROOM IN THE FIRST PLACE? Where was the security? Where were the safeguards? Who was responsible for making sure coaches could safely leave the field and enter their own locker room? Because apparently, after asking coaches to work countless hours for pennies, teach, mentor, supervise, fundraise, manage programs, communicate with parents, handle equipment, travel, develop young people and carry the expectations of entire communities, we're now supposed to add PERSONAL SECURITY to their job descriptions. At what point do we finally say enough? A coach should not have to defend himself from a parent at work. Another coach should not have to decide whether to stand by and watch his colleague be attacked or physically intervene because adequate protection wasn't there. And neither should have to walk away from their program days later while questions are being raised about their actions. If your first response after a coach is attacked at work is to figure out how the coach is somehow responsible, you are part of the problem. This is exactly how we lose good coaches. We tell them to sacrifice more. Give more. Work longer. Take less. Deal with increasingly hostile behavior from adults. And apparently, when things cross the line from verbal abuse to physical violence, they're supposed to deal with that too. NO. This is bigger than one coach. This is bigger than one school. And this is bigger than one district. Every coach in Florida should be paying attention. Coaches have a right to go to work, coach their student-athletes and return home to their families without wondering whether an angry adult will be waiting for them outside a locker room. And if the systems currently in place are not enough to provide reasonable protections for coaches, then those systems need to change. So we're going to do something about it. Coaches in Florida deserve protection. During this upcoming legislative session, the Florida Coaches Coalition will work with lawmakers to pursue stronger protections for coaches and address what happens when their safety is threatened while performing their jobs. Because protecting coaches cannot simply be a talking point after something terrible happens. It needs to be an expectation. To every coach in Florida: We see you. We hear you. And we will fight for you. COACHES DESERVE PROTECTION. NOT BLAME. #FloridaCoaches

Florida coaches know the routine. 😂 You wake up and check the weather. Check it again before school. Again before lunch. Again at 2:00. Again at 2:15 because somehow the 80% chance of thunderstorms is now 20%. Then at 2:30 it’s back to 90%. Practice at 3:00. At this point, the weather app isn’t an app. It’s an assistant coach. Somebody get the weather app a polo and put it in the staff picture. 😂 #OnlyCoachesUnderstand #FloridaCoaches

Here’s one nobody wants to say anymore: Winning matters. If it didn’t, why keep score? Why have playoffs? Rankings? Championships? Trophies? Why practice all week trying to get better? Somewhere along the way, we became so afraid of sounding “too competitive” that we started pretending winning is just some nice little bonus at the end. Stop it. You can develop great kids AND expect them to compete. You can teach character AND demand excellence. You can care about academics, sportsmanship and doing things the right way AND still hate losing. Losing doesn’t make you a failure. But becoming comfortable with losing? That’s a problem. Winning isn’t everything. But if winning doesn’t matter, why the hell are we keeping score? #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud #FloridaCoaches #HighSchoolSports

Before most people hit snooze, they’re already putting in miles. No packed stadium. No Friday night lights. No band. No student section. No halftime show. Just an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a course and a group of athletes willing to work when almost nobody is watching. And somewhere behind them is a coach who got there even earlier. Cross country coaches, we see you. The miles may be quiet. The impact isn’t. Tag a cross country coach and tell them thank you! #FloridaCoaches #CrossCountry #HighSchoolSports

Everybody loves to say high school sports are about developing young people. Until the scoreboard gets ugly. Then suddenly character, discipline, academics, accountability, graduation rates and doing things the right way aren’t enough. So here’s the uncomfortable question: If a coach consistently loses games but runs a clean program, develops good kids and represents the school the right way… should they keep their job? And before you answer, understand what you’re really deciding: Is winning part of the job… or is winning THE job? Because if wins and losses ultimately determine whether a coach gets fired, maybe we need to stop pretending otherwise. Coaches, sound off. 👇 #CoachesSoundOff #FloridaCoaches #HighSchoolSports

Every coach knows this trap. 😂 “It’ll only take a few minutes after practice.” Sure. Then somehow it’s 11:47 PM, you’ve answered 14 emails, finished tomorrow’s practice plan, talked to three parents, checked grades, reviewed film and started questioning every life decision that led you here. But hey… Just a few minutes. 💀 #OnlyCoachesUnderstand #FloridaCoaches

🚨 THE WAIT IS OVER 🚨 The Coalition told you we were going bigger. We meant it. 🔥 GAMETIME ORLANDO 🔥 🏈 February 25–27, 2027 📍 The Westin Lake Mary We didn’t book a ballroom. We bought out the entire hotel. Every 👏 Square 👏 Inch 👏 Last year, 800+ coaches. 150+ high schools. 9 states. That was just the beginning. This February, we’re bringing the football coaching world back to Central Florida for a weekend unlike anything anyone has ever done before. 🎤 Elite speakers. 🏈 Three days of football. 🔥 New experiences. ❕️ The coaches you know. The coaches you need to know. You thought last year’s socials set the standard? 👀 ⛳ Thursday Night: TopGolf is BACK — with a few special guests. 🎉 Friday Night: COACHES BLOCK PARTY. And yes… we mean an actual Block Party. And don’t worry about pulling up with a fresh cut… 💈 WE GOT THE BARBERS TOO. 💈 On-site barbers. ✂️ Haircuts included with registration. Yeah… we’re serious. GAMETIME is different. 🤫 Think we revealed everything? Not even close. One weekend. One place. One hell of an experience. Florida… IT’S GAMETIME. 🌐 gametimeclinics.com #GametimeOrlando #GametimeClinics #FloridaFootball #FloridaCoaches #HighSchoolFootball

🚨 We’re done pretending this is a level playing field. One school is practicing on a field that should have been replaced 10 years ago. Their coaches are begging for equipment, fundraising for uniforms, squeezing kids onto buses 🚌 and wondering whether the budget can even cover transportation. Across town, another program has pristine facilities 🏟️, resources most public schools could only dream about, financial aid and scholarship opportunities to help attract students, and the money to get wherever they need to go. Then the adults running high school athletics look at those two programs and say: 🏆 Perfect. Go compete for the same championship. Give us a break. 🙄 The problem isn’t the private school taking advantage of every resource available to them. They should. The problem is the people in charge who can look at two completely different realities and continue pretending they represent competitive equality. 🚌 If one program is worried about whether the bus is getting approved while another is deciding which upgraded facility to use, STOP CALLING IT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. 📢 At some point, competitive balance has to mean more than putting everybody in the same bracket and pretending the logo on the jersey is the only difference. Public schools deserve better than being told to “compete harder” in a system that refuses to acknowledge what they’re competing against. 🎯 If you’re responsible for competitive balance and you’re comfortable calling this fair, the problem isn’t the schools anymore. It’s you. 🎤 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud #FloridaCoaches #HighSchoolSports

Coaches hear a lot about what they can do better. Let’s flip it. What’s ONE thing administrators could do this year that would make coaches’ jobs easier? Not ten things. Not a wish list. One thing. Keep it real in the comments. 👇 #KeepItRealWednesdays #FloridaCoaches

Parents are going to complain. That's part of coaching. But when a complaint about playing time skips the coach and lands on an administrator's desk, who creates the bigger problem? The parent who went around the coach? Or the administrator who gave them a seat, a box of tissues, and immediately entertained it? One complains about the culture. The other has the power to destroy it. What's worse? #CoachesSoundOff #FloridaCoaches

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ARE BACK. 🏈 Tonight, stadium lights across Florida come back on. But long before the lights, the crowds, and the first whistle, coaches have been putting in the work. Coaches MAKE players believe in themselves. They MAKE teams believe in each other. They MAKE young people realize they’re capable of more than they thought possible. Wins matter. Championships matter. But what coaches MAKE lasts a whole lot longer than Friday night. To every coach across Florida kicking off another season: good luck. Go make an impact. We’ll keep fighting for the people who make it happen. #PayFLCoaches #FloridaCoaches

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A lot of questions are coming in about DNA Vibe. We could explain it to you… but we figured Gronk could do a better job. 👀 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=2qc4g6yX… We're working to put a DNA Vibe device in the hands of every student-athlete in Florida. FOR FREE. FCC Member Schools get them first. More information on the rollout is hitting your AD's inbox tomorrow morning. #FloridaCoaches #DNAVibe