re: LSU Compliance: Dare Rosenthal

He just doesn’t get it. Bye Dare

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Or how about players, that know they ding a positive, have enough discipline to not freaking do it.

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How about we stop hurting the fricking team by holding them to a higher standard than our competitors?

Also, what the frick do you think the team doctors are doing when they have acid and pains? Maybe letting them smoke a little weed is better than injections And prescriptions.

Best you all respect his decision!

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so who slides over to LT

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Move Dellinger to LT and he'll be your starter for 4 years. (Whitworth)

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Of course there is. It is certainly debatable, and there are plenty of researchers who think weed is worse. You exaggerate the point when you say there is no valid argument; maybe they aren’t compelling enough for you. There are certainly valid arguments to support the point of view that alcohol is just as bad but in different ways.

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Sure, maybe it's exaggerated, but you are making a distinction without a difference. Alcohol- especially in large quantities - is simply not good for human bodies. And that's before we get into the carnage of traffic accidents, spousal abuse, etc.

I do not make the argument that marijuana is harmless, but alcohol is just clearly worse. And I can guarantee you nearly 100% of the underage athletes (and student body, for that matter) happily break that law over and over and over again with impunity while in school.

And yet we don't seem to have any outrage over it.

Dare is stupid for not knowing how to game the tests, but let's not act like the policy isn't entirely stupid. It's quite self-evident that many of the "The rules are the rules" people actually have a bias against marijuana and in favor of alcohol.

Rosenthal was our starting LT
Gilbert was our 2nd highest recruited player on the roster aside from Stingley and was a stud as a freshman in an offense that didn’t properly utilize him and is a future first round pick
Ika is going to be an all Big 12 DL under Aranda and Pelini had him riding pine.
Brooks played on a national championship team as a true freshman
Hampton started most of this past season at Safety and played as a true freshman on a national championship team
Bradford loss probably doesn’t hurt us at all but he’s still a talented player leaving the program after 1 season in which he saw action as a true freshman.

These kind of things add up and are the kinds of impact players that our top competition (Bama, UGA, Clemson, Ohio State, etc) are not losing and definitely not at the rate we currently are.