Committee flunks drug-testing proposal
The NCAA Championship and Competition Cabinet decided yesterday to turn down a proposal related to drug testing.
The proposal would have expanded the NCAA’s testing for street drugs. Currently, the NCAA only tests for street drugs at championship events and that will not change. Factors affecting the rejection of the additional testing were extra costs (about $825,000) and the fact that most Division I schools and conferences are already testing for street drugs.
Stiff penalties for drug violations were also part of the proposal. First-time offenders would miss half the season; second offenders would have been banned for a year, and the third offense would have resulted in permanent ineligibility.
I think it’s good that this proposal did not pass. Schools should have the discretion to deal with some issues themselves, and certainly the NCAA regulates the daylights out of athletic programs already. It has to stop somewhere.
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