Florida Football Is Apparently Giving Out A Weekly Award To Players Who Eat All Their Vegetables

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The new era of Florida football is off to a strange start. The Gators hired Billy Napier to replace Dan Mullen as their new head coach in late November and things have quickly changed.

Now, this is not to say that things are going poorly. Napier is a proven coach with a track record of success and has learned under some of the best coaches in all of football. Florida may be on their way back to consistent, national relevance.

However, Napier is certainly doing things differently.

It all started at the end of January when he completed his new staff. Napier literally made up new, never-before-used titles for his coaching staff and handed them out to many of his new hires. Among the weird, unusual titles was the Gamechanger Coordinator and Director of Advanced Scouting and Self Scout.

What are those things? What do they do? It is not fully clear, but they are not normal coaching titles. Napier made them up.

It appears as though that trend has continued across the entire program.

On Monday, the program announced the recipients of a new, weekly award on Twitter. The Gators announced three “Nutrition Athletes of the Week.”

Florida did not give any context as to what it meant. It did not explain what its athletes did to earn the honor. It just announced the threee nutrition athletes of the week and left it at that.

What does it mean? Nobody knows.

Did the players eat their vegetables and take their vitamins? Did they join the clean plate club and eat every bite all of all three daily meals? Could they have had more protein shakes than everyone else on the team? Maybe these three athletes earned their title by not eating McDonald’s one time throughout the week?

The entire thing is bizarre. No other team in the country does anything like it. No context was given.

What is the criteria required to be named a Nutrition Athlete of the Week?! There are so many questions left unanswered.