Not so naive but do see a relationship between money and drugs. The more money, the more drugs. Certainly there is money involved in the NCAA but not as much as with athletes who have agents and sponsorship contracts. There is even less drug use in clubs such as the Greater Boston Track Club that I coach where the athletes have jobs or are students and the club gets only a small amount on sponsorship money. Mostly the members support the club. Yes, it would be naive to think their never has been drug use or would be but it surely is proportionately less. So one response, not a solution, to the drug problem would be to strictly define the levels of money influence or professionalism. Tom Derderian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Derderian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lehane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dan Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Killing the sport was major philosphy difference for the sport
> Hmmmm. We're not so naïve as to suggest that the NCAA is drug-free? How about some of the foreign athletes who have matriculated (are matriculating) and their track "records" without even starting on our citizen participants? Otherwise, what is the purpose for NCAA drug testing. Hopefully to try and deter the athlete, alas, we also know how difficult it is to "catch the culprits"! > > It's a filter down system. May I be so bold as to suggest the high schools are even caught up in this whole chase your tail game. > > We're in a pill-popping, needle-sticking culture and time. > > Wes Cook, > > George Fox University > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Derderian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:43 AM > To: lehane; Dan Kaplan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: t-and-f: Killing the sport was major philosphy difference for the sport > > Drugs are killing the sport and what is driving drugs is money. Are they > related? Maybe there is a place for expressed amateur sports? Such is the > NCAA. > Tom > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "lehane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Dan Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:31 PM > Subject: Re: t-and-f: major philosphy difference for the sport > > > > How 'bout it's killing the sport. > > > > Dan Kaplan wrote: > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > If lots of people decide to rob banks and don't see anything wrong > > > > with it, and the police can't keep up, does that mean that bank > > > > robbery should be made legal? > > > > > > Robbing banks has a clearly defined ill effect on society. That's yet > to > > > be demonstrated very convincingly with regards to performance enhancing > > > drugs. Next. > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > ===== > > > http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design & Custom Programming > > > http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > > _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax > > > / / > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > >
