[Husker] Steroids

[Bob Beach]

    There was this article in the Sunday Journal-Star about testing for steroids at NU.  The article indicates there has been testing of one form or another since 1980.  It also indicates players have been removed from the team because of steroid use.  Osborne stated he could not remember a positive test after the first series of tests where the first year two or three tested positive and then the next year one tested positive.  


    We talk about hearing things second hand on this list and question how reliable it is.  I am going to say something about this steroid issue and I can't name names for obvious reasons.  It is your choice to believe me or not but this is straight from the horses mouth.  I know personally a player that was a starting linebacker at NU from 1980-1982.  He played in the Penn State game when the end zone got real wide all of a sudden.  I know most all of you would recognize the name.  I flat asked him about steroid use when he was at NU.  He said it went on more than one knew and he named names.  This guy isn't a Jose Canseco type as he had nothing to gain by telling me.  He just figured I was a friend and we were having a friendly conversation.  Two of the names he mentioned were players that were awarded for being the best at their position in the country in different years.  I don't say this because I think NU is any different than any other program.  I just find it is amazing Osborne for 23 years didn't have one positive test.  Of course, TO isn't saying no one was on steroids.  He is just saying that of those tested no one tested positive.      


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Bob Beach
The more one knows the more one realizes how much there is one doesn't know.