Washington State football players have to be reminded to eat.

[ArcticPhoenix]

Dumbass (http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/wazzo-coach-finish-your-food-or-no-football-20002)

No word on if he will be bringing Hulk Hogan in to also get his kids to say their prayers and take their vitamins. Or maybe they just need to hire Michael Phelps as their nutritionist.

As the story notes, this is how bad the situation was that Wulff stepped into: the strength and training program at Washington State wasn’t up to snuff compared to where Wulff came from. That school was Eastern Washington:

“We have our own little training table, which has really good food,” Wulff explained the other day in an interview from Pullman. “They’re required to eat X amount of meals a week. Kids weren’t eating them. Therefore, you have kids not growing. They aren’t putting in the proper calories.

“It was very evident to see how they looked physically, compared to where I had just come from.”

What is going on that college kids - especially football players - are turning down free meals? I ate at Yoshinoya Beef Bowl three or four times a week in college, and I’m pretty sure that they’re “beef” is actually Soylent Green.

Seriously - are they on the South Beach Diet? If your football players don’t have the discipline to eat, I shudder to think what will happen to them on the field.



Good Lord, no wonder they can't win a game! Christ, what's wrong with people in our country?!

[eva]

I have to remind my husband to eat. Seriously. He just forgets. It's not unlike my dd...she can't identify hunger as what it is. I have to do it for her. When either of them are unbearable, I have to tell them that they are hungry and get some food in them toute suite. (Is that how you spell that?)

[Matthew S]

I would love to have that type of metabolism.

[flygirl]

I forget to eat a lot of times. I get hungry but the feeling only lasts a few minutes so if I'm busy and I don't eat right then I forget to.

[ArcticPhoenix]

How is it that people like that survive?

[Pops In]

Usually I don't have to remind myself to eat. I eat when I'm hungry.

Lately, probably to do with recent illness or change of medication, I'm getting a stomach ache instead of hunger pangs. Weird.

[ArcticPhoenix]

Usually I don't have to remind myself to eat. I eat when I'm hungry.

Lately, probably to do with recent illness or change of medication, I'm getting a stomach ache instead of hunger pangs. Weird.

Now, this I can understand. I don't understand how anyone can not recognize simple hunger pains or forget that they're hungry. It's a very basic human need, and I'm quite surprised that people with that trait have even been allowed to pass on their genes, honestly.

[eva]

I think b/c with my husband he grew up so terribly hungry that he never learned to recognize the feeling as what it was or as something abnormal. He thought it was part and parcel of being alive. You were probably taught what hunger was because when you had that feeling, you communicated somehow and someone fed you (as I'm teaching my dd). But if no one ever fed you in response to it, instead they beat you because you were hard to manage when hungry, you would identify that feeling as something else.

I'm not saying that's what's happening with the football players. What's happening with the football players is that they are being asked to be unusual: eat more and pump more in order to bulk up more. So since this is an unnatural state, their natural instincts won't work. In that way, it's analogous (but not comparable) to my husband's situation.

[Pops In]

I think b/c with my husband he grew up so terribly hungry that he never learned to recognize the feeling as what it was or as something abnormal. He thought it was part and parcel of being alive. You were probably taught what hunger was because when you had that feeling, you communicated somehow and someone fed you (as I'm teaching my dd). But if no one ever fed you in response to it, instead they beat you because you were hard to manage when hungry, you would identify that feeling as something else.

I'm not saying that's what's happening with the football players. What's happening with the football players is that they are being asked to be unusual: eat more and pump more in order to bulk up more. So since this is an unnatural state, their natural instincts won't work. In that way, it's analogous (but not comparable) to my husband's situation.
Sounds reasonable to me.