T. Brock basically claims that most of tcu fb team on drugs

[Grant Carter]

82 players reportedly failed a surprise drug test, that is incredible!
Welcome to the big time, TCU.

Seriously!?!

According to a story in the Star Telegram.

Link?

[skyscraper]

Here's the latest from the startlegram. One player says 60 failed, another 82.

The documents also say that TCU football coach Gary Patterson sprung a surprise drug test on the football team on Feb. 1, National Signing Day, and that Brock later told an undercover officer that there "would be about 60 people being screwed" as a result of the test.

Brock, the team's leading tackler during the Frogs' 13-0 Rose Bowl season, was injured in 2011.

Sources told the Star-Telegram that Patterson ordered the drug test after a prize recruit told him that he would not attend TCU because of drug use by players.

TCU has not released results of any drug tests, but Johnson told an undercover officer that 82 players failed, the documents say.

The affidavits do not indicate that Patterson knew about the six-month investigation that led to the arrests early Wednesday, including three on campus.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/15 ... rylink=cpy

[Junior]

Do we know WHAT drugs? If MJ that's one thing but if steroids or meth, that's something else entirely.

coke, x, prescription meds, weed, LSD

[lwjr]

If you need a link, you can go to the Star Telegram on line.

[Stallion]

Well I hope they didn't ruin any one's Valentine Day

[Grant Carter]

If you need a link, you can go to the Star Telegram on line.

All I see is players quoted telling the undercover cop that they were dealing drugs to that they thought 60-82 of the players would have failed the test. Not the most reliable sources. Is there some other article where someone in an official capacity says that many failed? Going to guess not.

I am not saying that a lot of their players were not using drugs, I truly have no idea, I am just saying that before you pass along as fact that 82 players failed the drug test you should consider the source.

[Junior]

If you need a link, you can go to the Star Telegram on line.

yep, or any other local and/or national news outlet at this point. heck, it's even on the front page of yahoo now.

some people can be a little lazy at times.

[lwjr]

If you need a link, you can go to the Star Telegram on line.

All I see is players quoted telling the undercover cop that they were dealing drugs to that they thought 60-82 of the players would have failed the test. Not the most reliable sources. Is there some other article where someone in an official capacity says that many failed? Going to guess not.

I am not saying that a lot of their players were not using drugs, I truly have no idea, I am just saying that before you pass along as fact that 82 players failed the drug test you should consider the source.

As I stated the source was a story in the Star Telegram

[ojaipony]

OK, now I'm interested ... starting safety and an all-MWC DT honorable mention arrested ... and a sophomore OL ...

http://espn.go.com/dallas/?topId=7577895

[Stallion]

I believe the sources are the two arrest affidavits of Devin Johnson and Tanner Brock I've read which had those numbers.

[Junior]

lwjr was just passing along infornation as he found it for those too lazy to go find out anything about the story on their own. don't shoot the messenger. he's not an investigative reporter, nor has he claimed to ever be one. if you have evidence that it is not 60-82 players, please pass this along. and please include a link.

[lwjr]

lwjr was just passing along infornation as he found it for those too lazy to go find out anything about the story on their own. don't shoot the messenger. he's not an investigative reporter, nor has he claimed to ever be one. if you have evidence that it is not 60-82 players, please pass this along. and please include a link.

Thank you, Junior. Not sure how I could have been anymore clear.

[Junior]

no worries.

[skyscraper]

Who better to know who would pass/fail a drug test than their own teammates?
Is 60/82 an official number? No.
But the fact those two would throw it out there makes it an informed guess. They probably have a decent idea if their teammates were using or not.

[MustangStealth]

From the ST article...

Last year, TCU was lauded in a "Sports Illustrated" article as the only top 25 team in the nation in 2010 with no players on its roster with criminal records

Not anymore!