OT: SEC wrist slaps for pot use

Probably because it isn't a big deal.

As they should. 

It should be about the local jurisdiction and what the punishment is their.  Pot is noo big deal.  I'd rather have my players in their dorms smoking J's and eating brownies while playing madden and ordering pizza on a saturday night than out binge drinking.  As we've seen (with Big Will etc.) alcohol and minors lead to bad things.  I'm especially a personal advocate of mixing the two.  It seems to keep one from going overboard on the drunkeness and keeps you from raging and getting in to trouble.

And here I didn't think hippies were popular in the South...

That's one thing I thought they got right.

~Herm

Rabble, rabble, no player at Michigan has ever smoked pot, rabble, rabble.

But seriously, the NCAA has a mandatory one year suspension for pot? That seems outrageously harsh.

I guess your reaction to this depends on whether you think it's about the pot use part or the lenient discipline part.  Being lenient on everything else as well, this shouldn't come as earthshattering news.

ha. whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.

yay nick fairley

What else is there to do in in Tuscaloosa or Starkville?

Meh, as long as they're not PEDs who cares.  Are we seriously gonna judge when AA is the annual home to Hash Bash?

It would be awesome if the US government decided to follow the SEC with respect to this sort of punishment.

You don't need an article to know that. These kids are screwed after they get their sheepskin. Please see all of the reports, current NFL players, and campus news. They blaze that shit up after practice. P.S. they get a boatload of vajay jay too. In Nevada they call them hookers.

This is one position that I think the SEC has right.

  As far as "it is crap they are playing on a different playing field," then yes... that sucks.

  However, seems appropriate to the crime.  I definitely don't support Brandon's "Just Say No" redux with the increased rate of drug testing and stiffer penalties and whatnot.  Especially in A2 where it is just a $50 civil infraction, and medically permissible at the city and state level.  I wonder how many tough anti-weed gentry feel about the 'best football conference' allowing more drug use... I mean, those things are mutually exclusive, right?

First pot, then cocaine, then the big H, then it's selling your flesh in Columbus to depraved Buckeyes.

liberal in their beliefs. No biggie.

I really don't think the use of pot or alchohol should have a penalty for the "standard" student.  However, when even a tenth of a second in reflexes can make the difference between winning and losing, athletes really shouldn't be using anything that can slow their reflexes during the season.  That should be a team matter, though.

The only thing that disturbs me about this report is that the SEC once again demonstrates that the main reason for their success is that they cheat to recruit the best of the best, have them major in "eligibility," and then use the Dantonio/Meyer approach: "If you contribute, you can do whatever you want and we will find a way to keep you on the field."

Rules help to create an even playing field, but only if everyone follows them.  The SEC, like our "friends" in EL and Columbus, are very selective in their approach to enforcement.  So, even though the rule is stupid, it is there and should be enforced the same way the rest of football enforces it.

the sec is slimy and grimey. we all know this. pot is not a terrible thing. some of us think this.players sitting around in their apartments, smoking weed, and playing videogames is not a big deal.

It's pot. Let me know when we're talking about PEDs.