The Sicatoka

Which probably explains why the NCAA has chemicals found in them on the naughty list.

The biologic half-life of caffeine is 5-6 hours in an average adult. Now put that to a college athlete, with say double the muscle mass, and having just played a game. I'd guess the bio half-life was down in the 3 hour range that day by exertion and excretion. And now, having said that, tell me he took that "pre-workout" supplement ... pre-game? Could it be caffeine? Sure. Was it? As I said, I'd be surprised. It'll probably be in the big, completely transparent NDSU self-audit study and report they'll put out Monday uncovering and exposing every relationship and detail.

I'm saying I'll be very surprised if it comes out that the issue was caffeine.

Travis Beck's reply to Kolpack's tweet says so much in so few words. "Pound the Stone" is a Newman catch-phase. And that's Beck's answer to the Kolpack story on Robbins.

Yes it is. But he's also admitted 'supplement'. If it really was too much gulping Big Gulps, sure; but, it's not. It's taking in something they'd been warned about. And they got caught. Now some of the other interesting practices (self-testing) and characters (Ben Newman) are coming into the light.

No, the openly refuting of the claims of their starting FB and his NDSU Athletics HOF mother should also be raising eyebrows. "Robbins family, meet undercarriage of bus. The gent there already is Mr. Newman (as placed by some former NDSU players, e.g. Travis Beck)."

Frankly, I do not believe NDSU should be investigated. I believe this Ben Newman fellow should be and wherever his tracks may lead que sera sera.

Who's Tomey? Marissa's on the team? No, wait, she's Tomei. Our goalie Peter Thome is out indefinitely. The article says the injury was January 10. That's pre-CC series.

So Robbins stopped at the 19th and University Stop-n-Go pre-game and grabbed a 64 oz fountain Dr. Pepper (more caffeine than even Mountain Dew) and whizzed a post-game positive. I have a cold adult-type beverage of your choice for you if the chemical that caused the fail was caffeine.

The claim is the issue is this "Clean Victory" crap. But we don't know for sure; we just have claims. So I went and found the NCAA's list of explicitly banned stimulants: So none of those are in "Clean Victory" products? OK ... so other than getting caffeine at the local Qwik-e-mart ... where'd those controlled substances come from that were detected in Robbins' sample?

A student with a legal script for a medication is a smoking gun?

Ben Newman's name has come up. "Clean Victory" has come up. <-- interesting name for a supplement product And look what it took me 15 seconds to find: https://www.cleanvictorysupplements.com/pages/team

Yes, yes they do. So then why are they (a former starting FB and a HOF WBB player) risking alienating all Bison-dom by making the statements that were made and accusing a 'trusted staff member'? Given they have the most to lose and least to gain and still they did it I'm saying I believe them more than the AD.

The whisper campaign at the time was from his roommate (who had a script for it).

Who has more to lose/gain by their claims? That's normally where I start.

Those sound like a great starting list for an NCAA follow-up ...

I'm pretty sure Rudolph never heard Gunny Tom Highway's credo: improvise, adapt, overcome.

Would you rather the headline read: X suspended, got substance from roommate or X suspended, got substance from trusted staff member I'd prefer neither, but, if forced to choose I'll take the first long before the second.

Jim has this part of his universe up and cranking again. Some pretty good reads to be found. https://collegehockeyranked.com/

I guess Poolman didn't even make the trip to Denver.

When you were 0-2 in Buffalo, 3-3 is on the rise.

Ah yes, ... the short stagger from the Antique to the Bridge.

Because he's a taxpayer and the State of ND could end up on the hook for liabilities (costs) incurred by NDSU if say Mr. Robbins (et al) were to retain council and claim damages ... Mentioning the State, there's an open records law in this State. Now I'm pretty sure names would have to be blotted out (think: HIPAA), but wouldn't any testing of players contracted out by NDSU to a third-party be fair game for an open records request? It would be intriguing to see what NDSU's testing contractor finds during their evaluations. And this could provide some insight to Barn's question about NDSU having suspended their own for self-test results. We couldn't be sure (no names per HIPAA) but if there were X failed tests one would expect commensurate press reports about "violation of team rules" suspensions and such.

East coast bias.

The one that bothered me the most: Rudolph would run RB wheel routes with Olivera and not Santiago. Yes, Brady can catch, but, in that scenario you normally get LB coverage and LB v Olivera is more even than LB v Santiago. LB v Santiago is 99.5% of the time in John's favor.