http://aol.sportingnews.com/ ncaa-football/story/2013-01-29/ ray-lewis-alabama-players-banne d-substance-national-champions hip?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl28|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3 D263403  I am sure they are not the first or last team offered ...

osutau wrote: The meeting took place prior to the national championship game vs. LSU in January of 2012—without the knowledge of Alabama’s coaches—and was recorded by Key with a pen camera, according to the report.

86Tiger wrote: Not to worry... they had sent C&D letters just like they did to T-Town Tom...

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"Guys, this stuff is beyond real!" -- Key also showed the players gallon jugs of "negatively charged" water, which he claimed would afford them better hydration because it adheres like a magnet to the body's cells. Then he held up a canister containing a powder additive, to be mixed in water or juice, that he said had put muscle mass on a woman who was in a coma, and an oscillating "beam ray" lightbulb that could "knock out" the swine flu virus in 90 minutes. Finally, he pulled out a bottle of deer-antler spray (which also comes in pill form). Adrian Hubbard, a linebacker sitting on one of the queen beds, said he already had some, but Key explained its benefits for the others.

"You're familiar with HGH, correct?" asked Key, referring to human growth hormone. "It's converted in the liver to IGF-1." IGF-1, or -insulin-like growth factor, is a natural, anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth. "We have deer that we harvest out of New Zealand," Key said. "Their antlers are the fastest-growing substance on planet Earth . . . because of the high concentration of IGF-1. We've been able to freeze dry that out, extract it, put it in a sublingual spray that you shake for 20 seconds and then spray three [times] under your tongue. . . . This stuff has been around for almost 1,000 years, this is stuff from the Chinese."

IGF-1 is also a substance banned by the NCAA and by every major pro league. Alleging that the NFL warned players away from S.W.A.T.S.'s spray because it's a threat to "Big Pharma," Key boasted that S.W.A.T.S. is "the most controversial supplement company on Earth."

I played a major college sport from 1999-2003, the glory years of supplements and energy pill that are now banned.  I remember grad assistants telling us about supplements we should take that act like a steroid that aren't banned that you could find at a local gnc.  Weeks or months later the same grad asst would tell us to stop taking it because it just got banned.

I've posted this time and time again, the next huge sports scandal will be the rapid performance enhancing drug usage not only in college sports but in high school.  On my high school team alone in 98 I knew of a handful of kids taking steroids.  I have family and friends in the south and they always talk about rumors of players down there juicing up while in high school.  Where there is smoke there is fire.

milesjack32 wrote:

I played a major college sport from 1999-2003, the glory years of supplements and energy pill that are now banned.  I remember grad assistants telling us about supplements we should take that act like a steroid that aren't banned that you could find at a local gnc.  Weeks or months later the same grad asst would tell us to stop taking it because it just got banned.

I've posted this time and time again, the next huge sports scandal will be the rapid performance enhancing drug usage not only in college sports but in high school.  On my high school team alone in 98 I knew of a handful of kids taking steroids.  I have family and friends in the south and they always talk about rumors of players down there juicing up while in high school.  Where there is smoke there is fire.

This is the same crap you guys were trying to get to stick with the dumb T-Town story.

Gee, I wonder why no news service is picking this story up? Oh yeah, that's right, the NCAA is "protecting" Alabama so it will never get legs. Unless maybe, just maybe, it gets a head of steam from a couple of message boards!!

Then, just like the T-Town story, and oversigning, those stories will gather up power and bring DOWN the Bama program! Yeah! That's the ticket!!!

djtidebuck wrote: It's Alabama, they cheat, they will continue to cheat.  They don't care that we know they cheat.  As long as they can win and holler "Rawl Tahd"  they will do anything.  "Ridin' Dirty"

DeepSthBoy wrote:

This is the same crap you guys were trying to get to stick with the dumb T-Town story.

Gee, I wonder why no news service is picking this story up? Oh yeah, that's right, the NCAA is "protecting" Alabama so it will never get legs. Unless maybe, just maybe, it gets a head of steam from a couple of message boards!!

Then, just like the T-Town story, and oversigning, those stories will gather up power and bring DOWN the Bama program! Yeah! That's the ticket!!!

smellydink wrote: ESPN and the NCAA are protecting Alabama on this. Obvious they are dirty

OSU84 wrote: The downside to the type of success that Bama has been having recently is increased media scrutiny.