When three Clemson players failed NCAA drug tests ahead of the College Football Playoff, some Tigers fans speculated it might have been due to the football team’s hospital visit or food tampering at the ACC Championship Game. Those are two of the more amusing finds after a records request by The Post and Courier.

A Sunday article from Gene Sapakoff reveals what was found after the paper “requested all ostarine-related emails, text messages and other correspondence from Dec. 1 to Feb. 10 involving athletic director Dan Radakovich, head coach Dabo Swinney, president Jim Clements and members of the sports medicine, training and nutrition staffs” via a public records request. Sapakoff notes that the bulk of the 33 documents (which includes the fan emails about the hospital visit and food tampering) were heavily redacted.

The article notes that Clemson did not provide any communications from Clements or Swinney regarding the positive PED tests, aside from the Clemson coach’s pre-Cotton Bowl news conference statements. Documented initial reaction to the test include Associate Athletic Director Natalie Honnen’s email to Director of Football Nutrition Paul Harrington asking for “verification that all supplements are … certified and PED free,” per the article. The documents also show that fewer than 20 of Clemson’s 125 players were tested randomly by the NCAA.

The name of the fan who worried about players being exposed to “unknown chemicals” in hospitals has been redacted, as well as the name of the fan who worried that “someone (maybe a food service worker or supplier)… had 12 months to plan a way to drop some powder on dessert or into a beef dish” at the ACC Championship Game.

PDFs of the emails and other documents can be viewed at The Post and Courier.