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Message: [QUOTE="HouseOfCuse, post: 214817, member: 1611"] Based on the article it sounds like SU's policy gives them an out in every instance just about. [B]"Each penalty called for the head coach to be notified and, in turn, alert a player’s parents or guardians. After the first offense, an athlete was required to attend drug counseling and rehabilitation sessions. In addition, the policy called for the offending athlete to be tested on a regular basis for the remainder of his or her eligibility."[/B] So after the 1st offense as long as JB was notified, the parents were notified and the player had drug couseling it doesn't say anything about suspensions. player has to be regularly tested. how often is that? once a semester or once a year? pretty vague "[B]Penalties for a second positive test included automatic suspension from practice and playing, plus mandatory drug counseling, and a player could not return to the team without being cleared by a counselor as being drug free."[/B] Ok so a player gets suspended but could be cleared at any time. Maybe in a day or two. Doesn't say how long. Just says they need to be cleared. Pretty vague again. [B]"third positive test, a player was subject to termination of eligibility and expulsion from school, barring special intervention by the athletic director."[/B] So after a third positive test they are expelled barring special intervention by the athletic director. So again SU can be saved because if this is the rule the athletic director just says I met with the player and we straightened it out. No where does it say that the player is suspended or kicked out no matter what. Seems like SU has an out in each section as long as the coach and parents where notified and they say there was a counsler who cleared them. Even after the athletic director can approve it's ok. Unless the sources are a parent who says they weren't notified or a counsler who states they never cleared players there really isn't anything to go on. A player can't really say much about other players. They probably don't even know the policy fully or everything that went on. [/QUOTE]

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