re: Fulton halfway through a two-year suspension

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He dilute it a performance-enhancing drug test

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Not at all

A diluted test would be a re-test at the testing center

This is a tampering suspension. The reason why he tampered is unknown

There are multiple possibilities


1. Fulton was tested during the regular year. Which means as noted earlier, the ncaa does not test for recreational drugs. Fulton was unaware of this, smoked weed, and was afraid of a fail that couldnt happen so he tampered with his sample-Fulton is an idiot


2. Fulton was tested during the bowl game against Louisville, the ncaa does test for recreational drugs here, he smoked weed and tampered with his sample-He shouldnt smoke weed, but I am not going to get on a high horse about a college kid doing this. And a failed weed test for the NCAA is a year long suspension.

3. Fulton was tested during the bowl game OR regular against, was actually on PEDs, so he knew he needed to tamper no matter what and got caught

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I think people are blaming O for not recruiting this position knowing the lack of players available

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no shite. but leave it to O-tards to not have the wherewithal to figure this out.

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Do you seriously not see that people are blaming Orgeron for not making sure that we took a CB in this past class?

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I thought it was pretty obvious. Guess not.

And think about this, to intentionally egg some of this on:

If Fulton was busted during testing for Louisiville game, that means TWO signing days have passed. Not just 1.

While Fulton clearly made a couple big mistakes here, two years is absolutely ridiculous.

The Olympics Committee allowed like over 75% of the Russian atheletes to compete in the Olympics after it was determined they tampered with urine samples the prior olympics. The fricking Olympics!! Give me a break with this 2 year ban, NCAA.

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But he did recruit CBs. Just because they chose to go elsewhere doesn't mean we didn't try

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He only tried for Surtain, meaning he had to go out of his way to not recruit others.

Even without Fulton this year the secondary will be just fine. It's not going to be as much of a dominant strength as in the past....but we're still talking about having possibly the best overall cover corner in the SEC if not the whole of college football starting against every teams Number 1 Wideout in Greedy, having another guy in Kirklan who has played well enough to hold off Kary Vincent thus far, who himself will be the starting nickel corner and direct backup to either of the two starting corner spots...you have an absolutely loaded back end with the safety spots being a clear position group of strength with Delpit and company back there, you've got the best DB from the state coming in and will be immediately thrown into the rotation for the nickel spot and you have two Wideouts turned into DBs so far in Netherly and McMath, and the possible graduate transfer that has been rumored seems to be a very real thing as of now. Look I get it's not ideal and that we should be much better off had we gotten Surtain or Goodrich or both, but this is not like we've suddenly turned into freaking Texas tech or something. Greedy is going to literally shut down an entire half of the field and will be more than enough to handle everything teams best guy game after game. I have confidence in a guy like Jontre who has held off the former Five star and second overall corner in his class per ESPN and was a consensus top 50 kid otherwise on 247 in Kary Vincent....that tells me that they are not so bad off....and guys seriously.....The safeties are not struggling...they are going to be a serious problem for teams....Delpit and Stevens are both future NFL players...the world is not nearly falling down on us and it's time to stop acting like we are just going to all of the sudden be a secondary incapable of stopping anyone. This defense is going to be better than last years and that unit was a top 15 unit. The DB haul that the class of 2019 brings in is going to be seriously ridiculous....the potential for having multiple 5 star DBs is not just a slight possibility it's more likely to happen than to not.....when signing day 2019 rolls around and we end up with a top 3-5 and maybe even better than that possibly....overall class that features around 4-5 5 star talents and a number close to 15 players that are in the top 250 then maybe we might all remember that were doing just fine. Seriously. Get the sand out of your freaking snatches already.

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Neither of those guys should have been willing to allow what happened to happen.

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sure, but the head coach makes the final call. the buck stops with him.

what happened with Fulton is unfortunate, and apparently unprecedented if I am reading the article correctly, but as with most things, how you handle adversity is what people will judge you on.

Orgeron didn't have anything to do with Fulton's suspension, but he has to play the hand he was dealt. Knowing that there was a 50% chance Fulton would be ineligible in 2018, signing a CB became that much more of a priority.

to me, this lack of planning/foresight speaks to a larger issue that Orgeron does not have contingency plans for when things do not go his way. The OC issue is a perfect example of this, as Orgeron was certain he would have Kiffin as his OC, and it seemed as though it never even crossed his mind that he should have had a list of candidates ready to go. this is further evidenced by the fact that it was reported that he made ANOTHER run at Kiffin after LSU and Canada "parted ways".

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Don Jackson, an Alabama-based attorney representing the Fulton family who spoke to The Advocate on Sunday.

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Jackson teaches my Amateur Sports AND Professional Sports Law classes at Cumberland, he represents athletes with his firm The Sports Group out of Montgomery. In terms of the positions he holds relative to the NCAA and professional athlete dynamic with his/her respective league, I think he's insane and I've articulated my disagreements with his positions on many an occasion. He's sharp and articulate and the statements he expressed are classic Jackson. That being said, you'll never hear me say a bad thing about him personally love talking sports and contracts with him every chance I get and he helps his students with opportunities to get into the sports field.

The NCAA is the least funny joke in America. I don't understand why the P5 schools haven't broken away yet.

I say if the next appeal is the same Kangaroo Court BS, go ahead and play him - who gives a damn if wins are "vacated" - they still happened no matter what some corrupt organization says.