I just discovered this while reading this article, but LSU apparently has team rules regarding drug use and, more impressively, is willing to enforce them on a star player. LSU kicked “The Honey Badger” off it’s team for failing drug tests. It would be one thing if he was a scrub, but he was a marquee player on their team last year, an All-American and a Heisman Trophy finalist.
Consider me surprised. This is usually the sort of thing we find out about years later when the program is being investigated for violations of one sort or another.
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Not to dull your enthusiasm…but the NCAA only tests players for drug use at the start of the season and first day of training camp, and after a Championship game. The rest of the time, the University Athletic Departments conduct their own testing, at their own discretion. This includes penalties for violations, number of strikes, and all that it entails. The NCAA does not require the individual Universities to report any of that information to them in any way…unless an investigation is conducted.
What this means to me, is that Tyrone failed the NCAA test to start this season. In order to prevent an NCAA investigation into his past drug testing history, as administered by the University, they took the action that stopped the bleeding the quickest. The fact that he was kicked off the team on or about the first day of camp, and the fact that they kicked their best player off the team, would support the assumption that I am not too far off the mark.
Again, I hate to dull your enthusiasm, as LSU did the right thing, but probably because they had to, not because they wanted to, and therein lies the difference. The interesting question would be how many drug tests has he failed that were administered by LSU. I do not think he found pot last week…we will probably never know now…at least, not until the NFL background check starts digging into his University medical files.