Does Penn State have a drug testing program?

[Panther Parrothead]

What did he get away with at Vanderbilt? I live in Nashville, Vandy season ticketholder & never heard of Franklin getting away with anything. Please explain.

Please. Recruiting "pretty girls" to help with recruiting, including asking the rape victim to do it for him...lying to his players about what he saw...and that's only what was revealed.

If you're really who you claim to be (which I strongly doubt), you must have your head buried in the sand, just like many of the Nit fans.

 

[cbpitt2]

Penn State had two starters suspended for the Rose Bowl. Not sure what the reasons were.

http://www.mcall.com/sports/college...r-violation-of-team-rules-20161228-story.html

 

[Jpripper88]

What did he get away with at Vanderbilt? I live in Nashville, Vandy season ticketholder & never heard of Franklin getting away with anything. Please explain.

He lied about and helped cover up a rape.

 

[Farnox]

Of course they have a drug testing policy. The players get to take their weed over the chem labs and have it tested for free to know the THC content. That way they know if they paid too much for it.

 

[pittdan77]

Any team with 85 scholarship athletes and another 30 or so walk ons, has some knuckleheads that are in that age period from about 17 to 23 where they know more about life than anyone else.

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[Hotshoe]

He lied about and helped cover up a rape.

Really? He lied about seeing the tape to his players, not the police. Just how did he cover up a rape when he was in Florida when it took place. I must have missed where the police charged Franklin. But you would know best, being that you live there, and are an officer of the court. Good grief.

 

[upj87]

I ask that seriously. A few weeks ago, I asked PSU fans on this board if they could ever remember a PSU starter being suspended without knowing the details as of why (ie which would be a failed internal drug test), and one guy replied that he remembered a player 20 years ago that may have been.

Pitt needs to rethink its drug-testing policy. They should only test for performance-enhancing drugs which are banned by the major pro sports leagues. If its a drug that doesn't affect the player's performance, let the Pittsburgh PD worry about policing 20 year old college kids committing the grievous crime of smoking marijuana. Throwing a season away because a few college kids smoked weed is ridiculous.

Its funny because some of us, including myself believe that one day our administration will take the sport serious enough to spend half a billion on a new stadium, yet they continue to play on an uneven playing field and won't alter their drug testing rules and send a message that it indeed takes the sport seriously.

Vaseline has yet to be included in the list of banned substances.

 

[Pitt79]

If the NCAA lets you design your own drug testing policy, what Pitt should do is look at all the policies of all the other schools, take the most lenient one, and create one even less stringent than that one. ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, do whatever you can to make the policy so weak that you never catch anyone and never have to suspend anyone ever.

 

[DiehardPanther]

If the NCAA lets you design your own drug testing policy, what Pitt should do is look at all the policies of all the other schools, take the most lenient one, and create one even less stringent than that one. ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, do whatever you can to make the policy so weak that you never catch anyone and never have to suspend anyone ever.

Agreed - Pitt does the opposite and tests more frequently than is required by the NCAA.

 

[Pitt79]

Agreed - Pitt does the opposite and tests more frequently than is required by the NCAA.

I never understood the NONSENSE of "holding yourself to a higher standard", the punish yourself BS, why? Why would anyone do MORE than is required to get to the same place?