{"id":479575,"date":"2026-02-20T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:46:07","slug":"florida-senate-passes-teddy-bridgewater-act-for-high-school-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479575\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Senate passes &#8220;Teddy Bridgewater Act&#8221; for high-school coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers quarterback Teddy Bridgewater saw his career as a high-school coach in Miami end after other coaches complained that he was spending his own money to help his players.<\/p>\n<p>An effort is now underway to allow high-school coaches in Florida to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Via Andy Villamarzo of Rivals.com, the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/news\/florida-senate-passes-teddy-bridgewater-act-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Senate has passed<\/a> a \u201cTeddy Bridgewater Act\u201d that would allow coaches to use up to $15,000 of their own money to support student-athletes with food, transportation, and recovery services.<\/p>\n<p>The bill still must pass the Florida House of Representatives and be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>If it becomes law, the Teddy Bridgewater Act potentially opens Pandora\u2019s box. How will anyone accurately track expenditures? And what\u2019s to stop the coach from becoming the conduit for boosters to funnel more than $15,000 to players?<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater\u2019s situation came to light when he asked Northwestern fans to help him pay for Ubers, pre-game meals, and athletic services. He <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/teddy-bridgewater-has-been-suspended-from-his-high-school-coaching-position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was suspended<\/a> and then resigned, returning to the NFL for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Bridgewater coached Miami Northwestern to a state championship before joining the Lions after the high-school season ended.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, 33, is due to become a free agent next month. It\u2019s unclear whether passage of the law would prompt him to return to high-school coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers quarterback Teddy Bridgewater saw his career as a high-school coach in Miami end after other coaches complained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-479575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}