re: Arden Key leave of absence

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Word around campus is he got caught smoking dope

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And even though all the knights are jumping down everybody's throats who speculate this, smoking weed would be the best thing this could turn out to be. We should WANT it to be weed. Because that can be overcome. It's infinitely better than a death or serious illness in his family, legal troubles, alcohol addiction, whatever other scenarios we could invent to explain this cryptic leave of absence.

However, if what 87 said about testing policy is accurate (2nd test fail = 1 game, 3rd = 1 year), would that mean he's got to be gone until February 2018? I'm not sure how they could get around it. And if they can't, it could turn into a Tyran Mathieu situation where he sits his 3rd year and then bounces to the league having only graced us with 2 seasons of watching him. I hope that's not the case.

Regardless, I wish him the best. Whatever is happening, he appears to be attacking it with a tremendous--and impressively mature--attitude. Good luck to him and godspeed.