re: Drug Testing

Lots of players have failed at least one test. If someone is suspended for weed, they have failed multiple tests and it might be more than weed...

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I’d imagine that a lot of parents would appreciate the fact that their kids wwould be disciplined for failing drug test. One of O’s recruiting pitches to parents is he’s going to watch over their kids like they are his own. Some parents might not care if their kid smokes weed but a lot do. Regardless of your feelings towards marijuana it is still illegal in Louisiana and getting caught with it can land you in jail. It’s also still banned in the NFL, which is where all these kids want to end up.

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I doubt most parents today care that much if their (now adult) child is smoking pot.

Unless you get caught with a pretty substantial amount of marijuana, you can’t serve jail time. It’s a misdemeanor unless there is intent to sell.

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I agree. These kids are still developing and they don't need to learn to cope with life by using that crap to dull their senses

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A dead give away that you don't get out much. These kids don't smoke to "cope with the horrors of life". They do it because getting fricked up is fun and its been going on for thousands of years... And when given the choice of having a hangover and probably showing your arse the night before, and getting fricked up and not having either of those consequences guess what, they choose the latter...

So it can still go on your record and potentially land you in jail....

I’m sure most, if not all parents would care if their son’s unwillingness to lay off pot affects their chances of their future career in the sport. College is suppose to prepare you for the next level, again, the next level sees marijuana as a banned substance, even in states that deem it legal.

Not if the want to be a part of the greatest organization in college football.

Sorry you can't cope with life without numbing yourself to it

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I’d imagine that a lot of parents would appreciate the fact that their kids wwould be disciplined for failing drug test. One of O’s recruiting pitches to parents is he’s going to watch over their kids like they are his own. Some parents might not care if their kid smokes weed but a lot do.

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the recruiting aspect of it does cut both ways.

The 'methodical' thing to do would be survey recruits and find out the % of which their parent's veto and/or reservations affected their final decision. I'm talking in general, not just about weed testing and punishments.

If the numbers say the parent effect is much diminished as compared to 5, 10, 20 years ago (as I suspect), then adjust accordingly.

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Alabama isn’t doing anything wrong. The ncaa allows schools to handle recreational drug testing so Alabama, a smart program, chooses not to give a damn about weed.

LSU, a dumb program, chooses to suspend players like it’s going out of style

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And that is it in a nutshell. Weed is on the schedule where the NCAA (parapharasing) says if you have a drug policy, you must adhere to that policy.

Says nothing about what that policy must say or even that you must have one. Ole Miss went years without one. They are not alone.

On that note... at some point in the process Compliance reviews that policy. Based on Fulton's whole ordeal, seems our Compliance are anything but great communicators.

What you find is that the more lax the policy, the earlier in the process and the more communicative they are about it. The stricter, it gets held back till later in the recruiting process and the seem to only give a framework and generalities.

That's because the teams with the lax policies are indeed using it as a recruiting tool, just not 'in your face'; much more subtle than a 'pitch'. So if the knife does cut both ways, but natural selection has turned it into what I described above... then I'll venture to say that the stricter policies appealing to parents doesn't work. It's a dull edge.

Then one must ask the question: Are the parents to whom that is designed to appeal to, regardless of the influence of the parents, even care or are smokers themselves?

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Yea, not likely Even still, Hootie Jones and Cam Robinson were arrested with marijuana and didn’t miss a snap

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I wonder if they got their weapons back .

That’s incorrect. When it comes to drug testing, schools have to test “randomly” although the players who are on drugs, their names are never drawn randomly “out of the hat” cause their name isn’t in the hat. They test others who are not on drugs.

And went from a stick figure to swole in one year drinking Alabama’s protein shakes. They encourage pot smoking to help chill out their players’ ‘roid rage.