Dabo Swinney: Clemson may have given players banned substance
More than a month after three Clemson players were suspended for testing positive for ostarine, no official explanation has been offered by the team or any of the players.
Tigers coach Dabo Swinney told reporters from the Charleston Post and Courier that nothing has been ruled out – including the possibility that the banned substance was in a team-issued supplement.
“There’s a chance that it could come from anything,” Swinney told Grace Raynor and Gene Sapakoff. “They’re going to test everything and look at everything. And that’s the problem. As you really look at this stuff, it could be a contaminant that came from anything, that was something that was cleared and not a problem, and all of a sudden, it becomes there was something.”
Swinney further elaborated on that possibility.
“You can research articles, there are a lot of times when things are cleared and end up having a contaminant in it because of where it was processed, the factory it came from, whether there were other things there,” he told the paper. “So there’s a lot of that. There’s a case out there that there was a contaminant at a testing lab. There are lots of different things and the legal people are involved in that.”
Dexter Lawrence, Braden Galloway and Zach Giella were suspended prior to the Tigers appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinal Cotton Bowl game against Notre Dame. They were also suspended for the national championship game against Alabama, as well as the 2019 season. Lawrence, the headliner of the group, declared for the NFL Draft.
Dear God NO Clemson,, JUST NO!
To make an example of Clemson the NCAA will now add a 2nd year of post season ban to Mizzou’s punishment.
sad, but still funny
Well, if the NCAA has taught us anything it’s that you shouldn’t cooperate with their investigations and should perpetually deny any wrong doing.
Exactly, Georgia can provide exhibits A&B of cooperate and still get hammered- AJ Green and Todd Gurley.
Be glad you aren’t Missouri. Otherwise there would be no more football at Clemson.
I would assume if the school provided it more than 3 would have popped hot for it… I wouldn’t think it was from the school.
Clickbait headline. Intentionally written in a way that can be easily misconstrued.
Totally agree
Of course this clown doesn’t “know” where it came from, your cheating program got busted. I will bet the farm that there are more players on the team who would have failed if they were all tested. Its time that Clem$on get investigated they systemically cheat and because they aren’t Bama, everyone looks the other way. This is the same person who conned Taj Boyd to come back for another season when he was a lock top 5 pick, played Deshaun Watson with a torn ACL against USC to prevent a 6 straight streak and losing his job. This guy is black eye on college football and the state of South Carolina.
Nice troll attempt d-bag.
Yeah, this is the same game Cock fans played 2 years ago: it’s called called “Pin the asterisk on Clemson’s national championship”. Because lord knows they aren’t ever going to even sniff one themselves.y y
A slightly jaded comment from an SC fan. I don’t like clemPson but your take is way off.
Clemson makes the NCAA $$$ year in and year out. I expect they’ll get a $10 fine and be done with it
It’s the short half-life of the drug that allows Dabo to have a short memory about where it came from.
Maybe Dabo is having to choose between having his championship vacated and having his players banned from college football
If there is “a lot of that out there ” then why wouldn’t you have it tested before doling it out to the team. That statement is bafflingly dumb.
It wasn’t a smart statement on his part. It could go from an isolated incident to an NCAA investigation.
Says the fan of the team that always gets a pass from Emmert’s NCAA on players tweets celebrating newfound prosperity ($$$$ cha-ching!) lol
Only TAMU in the SEC has more Major NCAA violations than Auburn… I mean Cam’s father admitted to trying to sell him and he didn’t miss a game…
Still butthurt about the Camback I see.
I’m not upset. Especially when Bama has won 2 NCs since then… If an Auburn fan wants to talk cheating then Cam being auctioned off by his father will come up…
Dabo, Clemson was caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Dabo is pissed Lawrence did not fall on the sword for the program. The NCAA will let it passed because it will the NCAA look bad for not disqualifying Clemson.
Sad but it might happen. And as for the comment above about Dabo not testing what he gave his players ? FuzzyVol is moving from warm to red-hot in the hide and seek game. And why would he say this ? It can only be that his players didn’t find these PEDs on their own, he knows it, and he trying to soften any possible press release.
I don’t even like Dabo and it’s astounding to me that you guys are reading into his comments like this. He never said they didn’t test the supplements. He said they could have been contaminated after getting approved. Or, the labs where they tested the players could have been contaminated.