How about instead of your solution if they don't pass the drug test their scolly is voided and they can't stay in school. If you can't avoid a drug you surely are not dedicated or involved enough to be a success at much of anything.
I'm ok with that as long as it's applied evenly across the board. You can't boot an athlete--whose physical ability has earned him an education--while allowing the pre-med or engineering students to light up whenever they want because they're not tested.
My original point is I think we've become too emotionally involved in the lives of these kids. If they're out committing real crimes, then address it. But expecting them to stop something they've grow up around is foolish. It simply isn't going to happen and he's just the latest example. So we may as well accept it and move on, or essentially forget athletics and lobby to become an Ivy League school(though I still think half of our Secondary and OL would be in over their heads).
If AC or anyone else wants to smoke weed in their dorm, I really don't see the issue with it. I don't agree or disagree with it any more than I do their getting littered with tattoos and having multiple kids by Sophomore year. But clearly we can't prevent it, so we should stop stressing over it.
I'd also say this, I think we put way too much stock in what these players elect to do after UF. It really shouldn't matter. If AC decided he simply didn't want to pursue the NFL, does that make him an idiot? He's telling the world what is most important to him, just as much as the kids who keep their heads down and focus on making it to the league. Who are we to say he
has to use his talents to make millions? Again, I think we're too involved and are ramming our collective heads into a brick wall.
cool since HS (36+ years) and counting.
