[Husker] Osborne

[Sean McGrath]

Let's finally end this thread with the fact that just about every D1
program had steroid abuse, especially in the eighties. I think the
Huskers garnered more attention from the general public because of their
revolutionary weight training program (at least at that time) and the
way they would physically dominate their opponents. This gave most
people the appearance of steroid abuse where there really wasn't any
except if you're a certain SI reporter who came in and did a hatchet
expose. After dropping off another lister to the airport, back when the
Huskers went to the CWS, I saw this reporter there and almost stopped to
give him a piece of my mind (he did a report on aluminum bats and their
dangers in college baseball on Real Sports). We'll never really find out
how many Husker were or weren't on the juice and using semantics to try
and solve the question doesn't help. 

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Beach
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:17 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re[2]: [Husker] Osborne



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On 2/24/2005 at 6:59 AM Andy Knipp wrote:

>>Or he did not want to answer that question.  IIRC FS stated he would
>>not answer
>>"due to privacy concerns".



     Maybe I'm missing something here.  As I see it TO DID answer the
question.  He answered it, "other than the first two years no one tested
positive for steroids."  Some have said maybe he only meant scholarship
players.  Some say he meant only those tested by the NCAA.  I really
don't know.  I just know what he was quoted as saying and he didn't
qualify anything, at least not in the quote in the article.  And it has
become evident that not only were there players on steroids there were
some that under whatever circumstances tested positive after the first
two years.  So I guess at best what TO meant, or was quoted, wasn't very
clear.  


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


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