Fwd: Re: [Husker] Steroids

[Bob Beach]

On 2/22/2005 at 9:49 PM James Moreau <mohskr at kdsi.net> wrote:

>>I want to say that Osborne did have a policy for Steroids.  I had a
>>roomate 
>>at NU that tested positive and was suspended.  His parents were contacted 
>>and he stopped using.  He told me that it was the biggest slap to reality 
>>that he ever had, having to face TO and explain to him why he was ruining 
>>his life with Steroids.




     I wouldn't expect you to name names but could you give at least a time frame when this happened.  The reason I am curious is because below I include a clip from the article which appeared in last Sunday's Journal-Star.  The article would indicate that after around 1985 or so (TO doesn't say what year testing started other than it was the early 80's) if someone did indeed test positive at the very least TO doesn't remember it.

Bob Beach





Former Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne said last week that NU began its own drug-testing program during the early 1980s. Before then, he said, testing methods were generally unreliable.

During the first series of random tests at Nebraska, two or three players tested positive for steroids, Osborne said. The following year, the number dropped to one.

"After that, I can't remember a positive test," Osborne said.