Auburn http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/08/12/auburn-player-sidelined-by-ncaa-probe-into-high-school-transcript/ LSU http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120811/SPORTS0202/120811007/Honey-Badger-kicked-off-LSU-football-team-good-
For as much as I believe that war on drugs to be a bunch of bullsh*t, you have choices in this life. Honey Badger chose to be an addict over being a football player. Anyone who thinks LSU wanted to kick him off was nuts. I'd bet he even had at least one unofficial 'warning' that a test was coming up. That happens quite a bit. He still kept failing drug tests from all credible/and non-credible sources in Baton Rouge. As for the Auburn kid, honestly.. the Memphis school district is such a hot mess and has been for decades. I don't know if you can fault Auburn. All I know to tell people is to avoid kids from the Memphis area unless they come from an accredited private school, Germantown or one of the other burbs that aren't in the inner city. That place is like Norte Juarez, except drugs aren't the commodity.. it's athletes.
The Auburn situation isn't surprising to me. The SE part of the country has to have some of the lowest academic scores on avg compared to other sectors of the U.S. The LSU situation could happen to anybody, and does, but once again, a decision to screw things up with substance abuse shows a severe lack of common sense thinking.
that synthetic stuff will mess your head up. As for being addictive, I think a great many addictions are simply mind over matter. I now teachers, cops, military men and politicians who simply cannot give up the habit. It's like their coping mechanism. Like I said, he had a choice and he made the wrong one.
Military men? Really......fuckin' undisciplined pigs in human suits....then again I had some addictions on active duty....the 4 B's.....Bourbon, Beer, Boobs and Butts....real men type of addictions.... Hemingway style.
wasn't Hemingway addicted to real men too? Not that there's anything wrong with that, especially in the military these days. I assume your parades will become more colorful now?
Kids used to get into trouble back in my day, but the Austin cops would call the coaches and have them come down and get them. The press was also in on the game, they helped cover-up stuff. Just like all the press knew Jack Kennedy was sleeping with a lot of women, but would never report on it. Now if they spit on the sidewalk they will get ticketed and some reporter will report it. Now for sure when athletes drive drunk, get caught with illegal drugs, and assualt people they deserve everything they get.
Agreed. And if they utter an expletive for getting arrested it's resisting arrest..... :roll: Like you I'm not excusing bad behavior but just making the statement that the existence of it is nothing new.......but the stringent enforcement is......in most college environments anyway.