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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2967432, member: 289"] I am certainly among the ignorant on this subject and thank you and Oburgcuse for increasing my knowledge of it. My opinion was entirely based on the the statements i'd heard over the years that one of the advantages steroids give players is the ability to recover some injuries quickly and I've always wondered why that was bad. It seemed to me that it wasn't and that the problem was that the amounts administered by amateurs or shady physicians caused potentially dangerous side-effects and that that was the reason for the ban, not to protect the record book. The competitive advantage would come from the fact of the ban and the willingness of some to ignore it at their own physical risk. You explanation that this is more likely to be HGH, which gets lumped together with steroids in conversations but iis rather different in tis nature is compelling. I still maintain that these are all medications that have a purpose and could be used for that purposed in a well-regulated environment. Frank regaining his skills before the season ended is not inherently unfair to the other team. the fact that he lost them was unfair to him and to us. In fact, as we look back on this season I think we will see it as the year Frank got hurt and it prevented us from having the season we anticipated, even if it wasn't the only factor. I'm less ignorant about basketball and I've got to say that if Jalen Carey had taken better advantage of the playing time he was given he would have been given more of it and not less of it and the fact that didn't happen is on him. We've had a lot of freshmen see their playing time increased as the season went along because they played well when they were in there, with Buddy Boeheim being the latest example. Last year it was Dolezaj and, of course we used Brissett from day one. Some freshmen can contribute immediately. Some can't. I don't think that's on the coach. [/QUOTE]

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