Teddy Bridgewater suspended as coach of Miami Northwestern

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Teddy Bridgewater has been suspended as coach of Miami Northwestern for providing impermissible rides and benefits to his student athletes.

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00:00you guys see the story about teddy bridgewater yeah this pissed me off yesterday what happened

00:03the eight high schools are bums man they fired him no they suspended him for what for helping

00:09out his place so teddy bridgewater i guess went on facebook because teddy bridgewater

00:14miami northwestern he was the head coach last year former quarterback they won the state

00:17championship last year so teddy bridgewater was suspended by miami northwestern for their for i

00:24guess what they're saying they haven't officially said it but the miami herald's reporting that he's

00:27going to be suspended for the whole season this year and that's because he went on social media

00:32to try and like see if he could get some money back for uh for uber rides that he paid for he paid

00:39like he racked up like 700 i think in uber rides training uh food and staying in lodge so it was

00:48all in all probably like five grand and so i think he was asking some fans so he went on facebook he

00:53goes hey you know such and such like can you guys you know help out with this why not because he's

00:59volunteering he doesn't get paid to be the coach and uh so this like set up i guess uh and a florida

01:06high school sports athletic association firestorm because you're not allowed to pay for impermissible

01:13things like travel for your players and so he got suspended for something he volunteered for dude he

01:19got suspended for doing things that uh a person should be doing this the school should be doing

01:24like uh like you said uber rides um rehab type of stuff so that these guys have um uh chances to

01:35recover after games have meals all that type of stuff it wasn't it was basically stuff like the

01:40parents and the coaches and it just sucks the school should be taken care of i know it happened here let

01:48me um when i was in high school my senior year um we had a coach that so we didn't our school was so

02:01small we didn't have school buses and we weren't part of the public school system so we had to get

02:07government subsidizing and they would give us bus passes so we took city transportation to school

02:14if instead of like you know how you have you sign up for buses and broward or whatever we we didn't

02:22have that we had to so every uh week we would get these tickets to ride the bus every week well

02:31some of the kids did it too late so our coach was helping them get the the tickets the so they could

02:39get to and from school and um we got put on probation where we couldn't go to the playoffs that's my senior

02:49year because he was helping these kids and like what i would say is this

02:55this type of stuff only matters if you're winning

03:00yes if you wouldn't have won nobody would have cared they would almost said oh look teddy's trying

03:08to help the kids out or whatever now i would say this like everybody doesn't have

03:14you know the same luxuries as other people and sometimes you have to do things to make it work

03:22right and and you helping these kids get to and from school i saw it with my own eyes i knew

03:29i didn't know that it was illegal at the time but i saw the coach having conversations asking kids

03:37how are you getting to school um do you have enough money to for bus fare do you have you signed up to

03:43get the ticket i've seen him he goes through this like almost the same as if you're saying are you going

03:49to class like he there were kids who could not find a way to school sometimes they could get rides from

03:56other guys and so i understand that um this is not an advantage this is not an advantage it's almost

04:04like you you don't want these kids to have a chance to go to school well from what i and from what i

04:13understand there was like another school that got suspended i don't remember what the fine was

04:17but they got fined like 36 000 and they got banned from the playoffs and i guess what they

04:21said is well if they allowed teddy bridgewater to get off on this then they have to lift the

04:26suspension on that team and they don't want to do that they don't want to set a precedent

04:29but i just find like this stuff to be stupid it's it's very it's it's very like trivial

04:36to the people outside but to to to the kids that he's helping it's a big deal and i don't know

04:46as a person who has been through it or maybe teddy has been through when he was coming through the

04:53ranks right and he understands the struggles that these kids are having maybe more than the people

04:58who have these rules um like yeah so i would say this i would say like um what is happening here

05:09is more of like you said it's more of a situation where if we did it to them we have to do it to

05:19teddy not a situation where they're being you know where they're not doing any you know they're not

05:26just letting it pass yeah but the thing that sucks about it and this is and and no disrespect to the

05:30other coaches um because i know south florida high school is a huge deal down here i get that

05:35but he's got a lot of prominence that comes with his name and it it feels like all the headlines

05:41everywhere this guy's suspended and it connotes that he did something really wrong right and that

05:46see that's the problem when you put on the headlines teddy bridgewater suspended for inappropriate acts

05:52that's all people see but it's clickbait that's what you're gonna see then then you read the story

05:57you're gonna you're gonna think you read the story you're gonna be like well here's here's the problem

06:01looking out for his here's the other thing go find somebody else that'll do it for free right

06:06and they they were not good the year before that right um it's funny that he got done with football

06:13and then went and played for the vikings right so like yeah what do you lions was the lions

06:19is it hey uh teddy what are you gonna do you know now you won a championship now you know i think i'm

06:24gonna go play a little nfl football like it's so crazy what's up man campbell pick up the tab you cheap

06:30bastard it just sucks it sucks because i lived through it my senior year and and the funny

06:41thing about the whole situation was when i was going through it they had people from certain

06:46schools that i'm not gonna mention so hey you you could recall you could reclassify and come out

06:52early and come to school early oh man you guys had it tough i just thought high fears and full fears was

06:59uh was my problems in high school uh teddy bridgewater teddy bridgewater posted online the

07:05suspension from miami northwestern uh came from miami northwestern it's impossible to suspend somebody

07:09who doesn't work for you so if i'm suspended by miami northwestern i'm free to go to another school

07:14of my choice but i'm not going anywhere uh if it comes down to it i will volunteer from the bleachers

07:18like i used to in 2018 2019 when no one had a problem oh yeah teddy talk that talk all of a sudden

07:25you went uh uh what is it they want to say title last year yep yeah that's what happens they want

07:31to say title i can understand wait a minute man i've given my time my effort i'm making sure these

07:38kids are coming back safe getting to practice they not outside doing lord knows what nah man i shouldn't

07:47be suspended for that there should be no hate towards study fhsaa policy the rules address uh

07:54the rules address transportation in the context of student eligibility and potential violations of

07:57impermissible benefits specifically a coach cannot provide free or reduced cost transportation to a

08:02student nor can they purchase anything for a student over a week ago bridgewater posted on social

08:07media and asked fans to help him recover at least some of the money that he has spent including

08:12seven hundred dollars per week for uber rides according to the original report by the palm beach

08:16post bridgewater spent about twenty two hundred dollars for pregame meals and thirteen hundred

08:21dollars for athletic recovery services see what i mean that's like that's making he's giving these kids

08:26a glimpse of the of the nfl or college life that he that he had already experienced so that they know

08:35that they can make that they are able to be better healthier and capable of playing the following

08:42week so i don't know man that's nasty work man just nasty work going around

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