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Dec 25, 2018, 3:56 PM

For the 3 young men involved I hope they can see the silver lining here - no one has questioned if they're telling the truth. That says a lot more to me than a "sliver" of something no one had even heard of before yesterday morning showing up in a drug test. I'm sure they are going through what amounts to hell trying to figure out why this happened to them. Fortunately, they will grow older and while this may never be one of those things they look back and laugh about, it will certainly not be the biggest challenge they will face. And I guarantee they've learned some mighty powerful life lessons through all of this.

For a team to be 13-0 after 4 months is nearly impossible. A lot of things have to happen and admittedly there's some luck involved. This team has been fortunate to have not had any terrible injuries on the field. But there have been some off the field. Personnel changes presented a challenge. The death of a former teammate and friend presented a challenge. The pressure of being highly ranked and meeting expectations presented a challenge. They have overcome each of these and they will this one. The coaches know how to lead through adversity. The team is in good hands.

So what's left are the fans. And perhaps we're the most difficult group. I know yesterday when this news first broke my heart sank...not Clemson I thought. Since then I 've learned the facts and that includes the Test B will probably not be different than Test A. We have to accept this and realize it is nothing more than an honest mistake. And they happen. Where there is the opportunity for questions, by all means ask. But to keep this going for weeks or months is not productive and in fact just makes the stain bigger. We can all take our lead from Coach Swinney who spoke honestly but yet did not signal the end of the world. In fact, the exact opposite.

After years of a trajectory almost straight up, it is almost our due that "something" happen. It's just the way things are. It's what we do with that "something" that is important.

Go Tigers.....I'm looking forward to going to Dallas more than ever this Friday....this is the kind of team that will rock because of this....

Message was edited by: CaliforniaTiger®

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My comments are in no way an attempt to imply the old "but everyone's doing it" cliché nor am I assuming guilt or innocence on the part of our three players. If we are guilty of any infraction, don't attempt to sweep it under the rug. Accept responsibility, make corrections and move on. My beef is with the NCAA which has shown no clear evidence that infractions are dealt with on a fair and consistent basis. We need to look only at the Univ. of North Carolina. The NCAA went in supposedly to investigate and essentially found nothing. Additional wrong doing was discovered by an outside source so the NCAA was forced to return and their final report was a tainted white paper. The integrity of the entire university was made a laughing stock in the eyes of everyone except the NCAA. Essentially saying the matter was a university problem in spite of the fact many athletic programs were benefiting by guaranteeing the academic eligibility of the athletes by fake or watered down course work.

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^ Exactly & well said California!

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