Syracuse Basketball Drug Test Report: So This Isn't Actually That Big A Deal, Is It?

Dude…Your camera guy sucks. It’s all shaky and it almost looks like you’re holding the camera.

You make a GREAT POINT, Sean, when you mention that Forde can’t be BOTH a colunmist AND an investigative reporter. Well done, sir.

Hopkins and Davis were high while having a 3 way with Mrs. Fine. Now everything in clear.

I don’t care if the NT gets stripped by some backwards organization like the NCAA. Are they going to use one of those MIB red flashy things to erase my memory of the Hakim Warrick block? No? Those things aren’t real? Hmm.

And I can comfortably say that as a heterosexual male. Thank you for posting this last piece tonight so that I can sleep easier’ish. (who can sleep now that the madness is beging tomorrow?)

is that all these media members hating us is a potential result of getting rejected by newhouse. haters gonna hate, huh?

Then why is the NCAA allowed to vacate wins. Thats like a school principal punishing a kid for breaking a rule his mom has in place for him. A principal isnt allowed to punish a kid for not making his bed. Same idea. The NCAA should have no say in this if its a school policy.

until everything shakes out. If we did wrong, and wrong enough that it merits punishment, I don’t want to shoot the messenger.

But if it’s a mountain out of a molehill dropped right before the BET, then I’ll hate on him with all the rest.

College kids do recreational drugs?

A.) The report says 10 players since 2000-01. It says this because that is the year this rule was put into effect at Syracuse.

B.) With that being said, it’s totally possible that no one on the Championship team, or before that squad had anything to do with this.

C.) This is Big East Tournament Week. Back in 2008 I was at the B.E.T. and there were rumblings that Paul Harris was being forced out of school early; People knew Flynn was probably going to leave, but word on the street was the University (and Daryl Gross in particular) wanted a clean sweep. I’d bet cold hard cash that these drug accusations have something to do with the “Dynasty” era of Cuse basketball. (Harris, Greene, Flynn, Devo). They sure did often times go out on that court and “die-nasty”.

D.) The report flat-out says they don’t know of anyone on the current squad doing that puff-puff-pass. This team has already played through the Fine fiasco. If anything this will be something for the current players to giggle about for 5 minutes on the bus before getting down to business. This won’t affect them whatsoever.

always on a Thursday morning, and would get a call at 8-9 PM the night before saying “be at Manley at 6AM. Dont go to the bathroom when you wake up.” Every time it was conducted by someone from an independent lab. We would wait in the training room until we had to go, then go int a bathroom where a guy (or girl for the ladies) would instruct you to drop trou to the ankles and watch you fill up the cup. Then you would bring it back out to the lab people who would cross a random number off the board and put a tamper resistant strip across the top. And that was the end of it. No one ever heard back as to the results unless they were positive (and I dont think anyone I knew ever was). The compliance office was very clear about what would get us in trouble and to bring any questions to them.

Honestly, until the McMurphy’s Law report, I had no idea that the policies varied from school to school (though that makes a lot of sense when I think about athletes at other programs I know). I know guys from 1AA football teams who put the fellas from half baked to shame. Most schools test all sports equally, so a hoops team at a school with BCS football will get tested much more than a Georgetown type school. Then theres D2 and D3 which I know D3 does not test at all so most of those football teams (the good ones at least) are all 5’9" juiced up little white kids. I was at a D3 volleyball party once and all the girls decided to get high, then when they went to pass it my way I passed and said “Thanks but Im a student athlete.”… bitches.

I know we have to enforce our own policies, but if 1st offense at UConn is “no action”, same for UofL, Rutgers, USF, WVU, Duke and UNC…. then this is just bogus

haven’t heard a peep. Either it’s not on their radar(hard to believe) or they don’t think it warrants comment.

Dana O’Neil’s tweet here annoys me. If it’s about the policy, that’s one thing. But if it’s about the drugs, there’s a massive double standard in play.

I’m not at all familiar with the NCAA bureaucracy, so I dunno the typical TAT for this type of investigation. But it seems to me like they don’t mess around, especially with a high profile program like Syracuse. If the NCAA is good at anything, it’s making an example of people who think they’re above the rules.

So, to me, if the timeframe is correct in that SU self-reported this a year ago, then I would think that the NCAA would have done something by now if there were anything to do. There has to be records. Player X was sample 1234 which failed a drug test on date Y. This action was or was not taken against player X. This is not a Bobby Davis situation where maybe he was or wasn’t in New Orleans. Everything needed to prove or disprove this is going to be factually recorded somewhere. So, the way I see it, either A) this isn’t true or B) whatever cases are true aren’t serious enough for the NCAA to go apeshit over it. Maybe it was walkons. Maybe it was one fo the many players that left the program (Deshaun Williams, Dayshawn Wright, Louis McCroskey, etc.).

In any case, the point remains. The NCAA doesn’t exactly sit on its hands when it has a chance to vacate wins. They act fast and they’ve done nothing in a year. I’m worried, of course, but not as much as I could be.

Didn’t mention anything on Mike & Mike.

http://deadspin.com/5890991/the-scandal-is-what-the-medias-ncaa-scandal-cops-think-is-a-scandal