Billy Napier's spring game decision could ironically help Florida against Georgia

When Florida opted not to televise its spring game, it was a move that reeked of paranoia from Billy Napier. In his own roundabout way, he was following the tide of college football coaches who either scrapped the game completely or kept the game behind closed doors in order to thwart off competitors from gaining information.

The teams that seemingly would have benefited most from having access to the spring game were USF, LSU, and Miami. But Napier's choices from the spring game might just pay dividends against Georgia, even if Napier ironically won't be around to watch it.

Ryan O'Hara called plays at the spring game

Gators Online reported on Tuesday that Ryan O'Hara was tasked with calling plays for the Orange team offense during the spring game back in April. That was the 2nd team unit that featured a monster day from Dallas Wilson, as well as a great day from backup QB Harrison Bailey.

Now that Napier is gone, O'Hara is the one tabbed with calling the plays for the Gators moving forward.

But if Georgia wanted to spend its bye week preparing for any differences O'Hara might have compared to Billy Napier's tendencies, that would be much more difficult since the game wasn't televised.

So, ironically, Napier's spring game choices are actually going to help the Gators against Georgia.

Now, as we noted back in April, Napier's decision not to televise the game felt silly, since Florida posted a ton of clips on social media anyway, and several fans were livestreaming it.

Plus, teams like USF, LSU, and Miami could have just sent a coach to the game and done their best Connor Stallins impression if they were really itching to see if Florida had something up its sleeve.

But we can't imagine Georgia went through this trouble since they figured they would have seven games of actual film to work through of Napier's offense.

It also begs the question, why did Napier watch O'Hara slice and dice during the spring game and not consider handing over play-calling duties?

As Scott Stricklin said on Monday, that's probably part of the reason we're here today.