Should our compliance office lessen the penalty for positive marijuana test

Nope. Can't stay clean you don't play. We can't start enabling players.

*This is coming from a habitual pot smoker.

I don't think that they should bother testing for it at all. I'd prefer to see my players high on the couch at home watching a movie or playing video games instead of out at a bar.

It's stupid to test for pot. Bama doesn't (well they say they do but lol). Why should we?

Besides, you aren't catching anyone really. There are ways to smoke pot one day and go get tested the next and have it come up clean.

Yes. The mj law is dumb and athletics just scratches surface.
Countless productive citizens have lost jobs, incarcerated, and ostracized for it, while the CEO, HSEQ manager, etc gets smashed over the weekend, or even nightly on another drug proven to ruin lives, cause fatal accidents, etc.
It's frickin retarded.

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Should our compliance office lessen the penalty for positive marijuana test

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Yes.

Keep testing, bring the stated penalties down to the level of our competition. Would give the coaches the ability to moderate the penalty.

There is no NCAA standard to worry about. The reason I mention this is because infractions where you do have to worry about NCAA penalties, on the program, you should have mandatory triggers. Example: academic eligibility. Whole program is at risk if not maintained, so might as well mandate suspensions.

From what I understand, it takes several fails to get multiple game suspensions which is fairly lax in most of our opinions. We do not know the frequency of testing however.

But still, "lax" should be put in context. That context is formed by the law and our peers/competition. If they piss hot combined with an arrest/citation, by all means ramp it up. But without a legal violation we should be doing what our peers do.

The joke of this is that some schools have very harsh penalties for pissing hot. But have no testing regime. So unless busted by the law, those penalties never come into play. But they will cite their "harshness" for PR value but no one ever questions why it never comes to fruition. (Ole Miss??)

I'd hate to see LSU go that route. So I say test, but put the penalties in the hands of the law and coaches. At least the staff knows who is doing it and can watch for other issues, such as late to meetings, etc.

I find it interesting that in Nick Saban's LSU "binder," way back in 2001, he forbade drugs and alcohol "in dorm rooms" but tellingly, no blanket forbidding.

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Seems to me that any non performance enhancing offenses should be treated the same way they would for any non student athlete.

we should test them as little as possible and do everything possible to help them pass NCAA tests

If you were an lsu football player would you need to smoke weed?

Nope me neither.


But I really know the value of the experience and not some fricktard wanna be.