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I don't want to try to reason with all the Gator haters who already have their minds made up on this issue despite not yet having many actual facts, but here are a couple things that have been repeated here and elsewhere around the web over and over that just aren't so. First, Grier did not "gain 43 pounds during the offseason" as one poster here asserts and others seem to suggest. Nor did he gain 43 pounds in the past year. Nor did he gain 43 pounds since arriving at Florida. When he arrived at UF he weighed 182 pounds not 172. The last time he weighed 172 was at the Nike Elite 11 camp in 2012. During Spring practice last year, he weighed 197. He is now listed at 203 pounds by the UF athletic dept. If you've ever seen him in person, you know he doesn't weigh any 215 pounds. This purported miraculous 43 pound weight gain is the result of shoddy reporting in an AJC August article that cited a factually inaccurate post on College Spun. Secondly, it has been alleged here and elsewhere around the web that the banned substance he is accused of having ingested is Ligandrol. While the UFAA has not yet said what he took, they did issue a statement today stating categorically that it was not Ligandrol. Sadly, Jim McElwain is a terrible public speaker, and it is often hard to tell what he is trying to say at his press conferences. He says "you know" in just about every sentence or should I say fragment, as he often speaks in ungrammatical fragments and not sentences. In any case, at one point during today's press conference he said that players should consult with the UF medical staff before taking cough medicine. Whether that means that what Grier bought over the counter was cough medicine is anybody's guess. About the only thing that McElwain made clear today was that, whatever the substance is, it was contained in some perfectly legal (in the eyes of the law not the NCAA) over the counter product that is available everywhere. Let us hope that UF will soon clarify what exactly Grier tested positive for, how he ingested it and whether both the A and B samples have been tested and if they show the same results.