Dr. Andrew Ramjit

Congratulations to Tyrone McGriff Jr. on being inducted into the FAMU Sports Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Class. This honor is no surprise to anyone who knows the work. Tyrone is the definition of the hardest worker in the room. Day in and day out he sets the standard, not just with effort but with consistency, discipline, and leadership. Across the Florida high school athletics landscape, his name carries weight. Not because he asks for respect, but because he earns it. Well deserved @mcgriff_tyrone

Imagine a Florida where coaches are valued before the scoreboard says they should be. Where support is not reactive. It is built into the system. Year round. Intentional. Real. Imagine if school districts actually supported coaches year round instead of parading them around after they win state titles at school board meetings. Because recognition after the fact is not support. It is performance theater. Coaches are not part time pieces of our education system. They are the backbone of it. They develop culture. They mentor kids. They carry our schools long before anyone else shows up and long after the last teacher walks out the building. Yet too often they are underpaid, overlooked, and only acknowledged when it is convenient. We are building a Florida where coaches are funded, respected, and supported every single day. Not just when the trophies show up. Not just when the cameras are on. Every day. #PayFLCoaches

🔥 Coaches, don’t miss this. The @FAUFootball Coaches Clinic with @ZKittley is set for March 27 and 28 at the Schmidt Family Complex. Expect elite installs, position breakdowns, practice access, and real football talk with great food and networking. 📍 Florida Atlantic Football 📅 March 27 and 28 🎟️ Scan the QR to register #CoachesClinic #FAUFootball

Extracurricular leaders in high schools across Florida have reason for optimism as the state Legislature passed SB 538 this week. Here are some questions and answers about the massive bill that's headed to Gov. DeSantis' desk. news4jax.com/sports/2026/03…

Beyond proud of this team for fighting for fairer compensation for our athletic coaches in Florida, the mentors who shape our students on and off the field. The passage of this critical legislation gives credit where credit is due while improving the extracurricular activity experience for our students & making common sense changes to our transfer athlete criteria @AdamAndersonFL @csime90 @PayFLCoaches

A major bill aimed at raising pay for high school coaches and tightening student-athlete transfer rules is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk after lawmakers approved the final version of legislation originally filed as CS/HB 731. fox13news.com/news/florida-l…

Thank you @VerticalRaise for supporting our high school coaches in Florida 💪

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Working on a research study to investigate the impact of this bill on coach salaries before and after it's enacted. Hoping to see big changes!

Legislation in Florida does not get passed in Florida for high school coaches if @unclelukereal1 doesn't speak up and use his platform for our profession years before @PayFLCoaches was started. No revisionist history. Luke pushed the issue when most stayed quiet 💯

Florida bill that addresses higher high school coaching pay, transfers passes house vote READ: on3.com/high-school/ne…

They said it could not be done. That Florida would never change. That unions and school districts would never allow it to happen. They were right about one thing. Systems like that never change on their own. But here is what they got wrong. I was never going to take no for an answer. For nearly 50 years, Florida high school coaches put in hundreds, even thousands of unpaid hours. Time away from family. Long nights. Early mornings. Unpaid summers. All for the kids and the profession. These men and women give everything to our students, schools, and communities, yet for decades they were treated like they did not matter. Today, that injustice ended. 4 years of advocacy, sacrifice, and relentless work. Hours of research. Hours of strategy. Days without sleep. Every single moment led here. It was not easy. But it was worth every second to know tens of thousands of lives are about to change because we refused to stay quiet and we stood together. This was never about personal legacy. It was always about the profession. No matter what unions or school districts claim, coaching is a profession, and those who give so much will finally get the respect they deserve. To our team at @PayFLCoaches, the thousands of coaches who believed, the sponsors who backed us, and my wife and kids who carried me when I was ready to throw in the towel... WE DID IT! #PaidFLCoaches

🚨🚨🚨 WE DID IT! Legislation has passed in Florida! After decades of being denied what they deserve, Florida coaches will finally be valued in action, not words. A HISTORIC moment for our profession. LET THE WHOLE STATE HEAR IT! #PAIDFLCOACHES

Davenport HC Ryan Mills (@CoachMills36) discusses the work @PayFLCoaches has done to bring awareness to coaching wages across Florida HS football. Also talks about the importance of keeping not just great coaches — but great men — in our communities. @RealNews102 @BroncosFBDHS

We're going to continue to raise the bar EVERY SINGLE YEAR 💯

The future belongs to the ones who build the table, not the ones who guard it 💯

A great clinic. Well done @AndrewRamjit and @PayFLCoaches.

No football clinic in Florida has had 350 paid coaches post-Covid. I told our team the goal was 750. Not only were we going to double what became the standard, we were going to rewrite the standard. We weren't just going to make sure coaches walked into the clinic. We were going to make sure they left better coaches. We weren't just going to bring in Division 1 head coaches and their staff for the hell of it. We were going to make sure they interacted with coaches and built relationships. We weren't just going to have a "rubber-chicken" banquet. We were going to change the way our coaches in Florida are honored and appreciated. Our staff at @PayFLCoaches didn't flinch. These men and women put so much effort into making this weekend happen. Every "impossible" goal I set, they made it into an "impossible reality" and for that I couldn't be more thankful.

Amazing time this weekend at the @COYFootball clinic this year. Great catching up with so many coaches around the state. Proud @FAUFootball brought 28 staff members to represent. Thank you @AndrewRamjit @coachwaldrop @JeffGierke @PayFLCoaches and your team for putting it all together

@CoachJonSumrall speaking @PayFLCoaches . @FlaHSFootball @PrepRedzoneFL @RealNews102 @CenFLAPreps @AndrewRamjit