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Message: [QUOTE="cuse522, post: 2963387, member: 1149"] The stated penalties are for failing an [B][I]NCAA[/I][/B] drug test. The next section down says: "Each NCAA member school is responsible for determining whether to establish an institutional drug-testing program, at which time the school would be responsible for determining applicable penalties." So assuming that Frank failed a [B][I]school-administered[/I][/B] drug test, two things would need to happen if Frank tested positive in order to get him back on the court: 1. Whatever the policy says they have to do - if it's the same policy as before, this could be parental notification or a counseling session. (Does anyone know if the school changed its policy after the scandal?) 2. They need to be confident he'll pass any [B][I]NCAA-administered [/I][/B]test after the first game he plays in. Where it gets tricky is that if this is his second failed test and the school administers a third test, and he does not pass, they have to revoke his eligibility. So they may need him to go test himself and trust him to be honest with them before they test him again to clear him to play. The other tricky part is that I highly doubt Frank just smoked weed once, and it happened to be like this week and still be in his system. For someone who rarely smokes to just decide to do it the week before the most important drug test of his life would be insanely stupid, and you have to assume these guys are reminded frequently that they have to test before the tourney. If he smoked all the time, and never stopped, then it would be tough to even hope to get him to pass in time for next weekend. What's most likely in my opinion is that they were told to stop smoking weed like two weeks ago, and Frank decided he could get it out of his system in less time and took a chance... So they are probably literally in a day-to-day/week-to-week situation to figure out when it's safe to test him again. If it's true that they flew him back to 'Cuse, that means one of two things - either they have to do the counseling session there (this seems kind of unlikely, you have to imagine they'd fly the counselor to SLC if they thought Frank could play Saturday if we win), or they don't have much hope that he can pass a test this weekend. So my guess is that if we make the Sweet 16 he's got a decent chance to play. (I have no inside knowledge on this situation whatsoever, this is just me interpreting publicly available rules and information and using common sense/logic to try to put it all together.) [/QUOTE]

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