Comments on: It’s Time – Again – For The SEC To Create A Uniform Drug Policy

By: AGator

AGator — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:38:30 +0000

It sounds like this is mostly about marijuana. I’m libertarian about this. I don’t see why schools should care about recreational drugs unless the player’s performance is impaired by substance abuse. In that case they should treat it like a discipline/team rules problem and get the player into a rehab program.

I’ve heard of players having to produce a urine sample after NCAA tournament games for drug testing. Reading that ESPN article it sounds like there is no NCAA policy for recreational drugs. You can screen for performance enhancing drugs without testing for marijuana. I agree the NCAA should test for drugs such as steroids. Those certainly appear to give users a competitive advantage and in addition are dangerous, with life long side effects.

By: adam_r_white

adam_r_white — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:53:43 +0000

Would he have been dismissed? Maybe. Probably. WAS he dismissed? NO. Big Difference. Especially in regards to this story. Mettenberger would have been a much better example.

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:31:52 +0000

adam_r_white…

We’ve been down this road before. Cam was politely shown the door according to sources in Gainesville who we trust. There’s been spin since that Meyer tried to keep him — once it became clear that he was special — but we’ve been told by more than one person with connections to the UF program that Newton was not going to be coming back.

We trust them.

And the point of the story remains the same.

John

By: adam_r_white

adam_r_white — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:23:15 +0000

Cam wasn’t “dismissed” from Florida.

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:00:15 +0000

lodger16x…

This post is not about marijuana, it’s about drug policies. And as long as marijuana is illegal, schools will test for it. Whether it should or shouldn’t be legal has no bearing.

This story is about who’s administering the tests and who’s actually living by the results of their tests… not about what the schools are testing for.

Get back to your opium den, Hippie. (Just kidding.)

Thanks for reading,
John

By: lodger16x

lodger16x — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:53:25 +0000

Colleges are not law enforcement agencies. Marijuana is not a performance-enhancing substance. Therefore, stop testing for it. Students on non-athletic scholarships aren’t tested. And finally, over 50% of Americans support decriminalization. Our universities need to join us here in the year 2012!