The Sicatoka

The NCAA needs to look into this curious Ben Newman fellow. And his travels. And his offerings. Follow the Benjamins. All will become clear.

Thome hasn't played since the Duluth series. Ryan Anderson "ran the door" in the CC series as Thome didn't even dress. See PDF page 17: https://fightinghawks.com/documents/2019/1/30//Notes_020119_DU.pdf?id=8300

It's a maroon and gold thing. They all seem to get it.

Any wonder such things are on the NCAA naughty list?

That's probably some sort of rules violation.

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.