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george_allen;1044396; said:that's a great start - it would also be a great end-of-discussion if the fact is he's been tested and hasn't failed.
thank you for the response.
cleveland.com: Everything Cleveland
Ohio State Buckeyes football players likely to get caught if they use drugs
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The Big Ten began testing this year and will test 800 conference athletes over the course of the 2007-08 season. The NCAA, which started testing in 1986, visits each Division I school at least once a year and is looking at ways to increase the number of visits. The NCAA also conducts tests at championship events. According to the latest figures available, the NCAA conducted 11,610 steroids tests during the 2004-05 school year.
But that's not enough. It is the 2,000 drug tests Ohio State gave its roughly 1,000 athletes in 2007 that provides the most successful deterrent, Smith said.
"How do we help our kids? You give them an easy way out to be able to say, I can't do that because I may be tested tomorrow,' " Smith said. "You give them a crutch to say no.' "
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According to records from Ohio State's drug-testing program requested by The Plain Dealer, over a 13-month period from July 2006 through July 2007, OSU football players were administered a total of 357 drug tests by the school on 21 separate occasions. That included weekly tests of about 10 players at a time during the 2006 season.
According to the records, no players tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but three tested positive in that span for what the school called "drugs of abuse." Additionally, Oman said no football player had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs on any OSU tests this fall.
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