 U of Waterloo football program suspended over steroidsSports | 206737 hits | Jun 14 4:38 pm | Posted by: wildrosegirl  The University of Waterloo has suspended its football program for one year in response to a steroid scandal that has been dubbed "the most significant doping issue" in Canadian university sports history.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Why would they suspend football? Punish the guilty and let the others keep plating. This could ruin future careers, at least transfer them to schools that still offer the program.
"Plating" is usually a term associated with baseball not football. No one (well, almost no one) turns a Canadian college football career into a pro-sports career, so it's not going to ruin anyone's career. This isn't the NCAA.
How about Waterloo graduates like Michael Warner, Chris Best (CFL) and Joel Reinders (NFL), where would they be if their last year of elegibility had been axed by a school that decided they'd punish the innocent along with the guilty?
This is bullshit and every football fan knows it. These kids are the scapegoats in a battle between the University and their former CFL'er coaching staff, at whose feet the steriod scandal should really be laid.
Increasingly, CIS schools are offering booster-support programs, where alumni, parents and/or corporations can donate money to a targeted fund especially designed to off-set a student-athlete's tuition and living costs. The University of Windsor has an Adopt-A-Lancer program, for example. The CIS has no regulations regarding how much each school can provide to teams through private support. The Universit� Laval's Rouge et Or football team, winner of the last 4 of 8 Vanier Cups, is so successful fund raising, the team trains in Florida during the spring
So I can see why alot of these supporters, alumni and corporations are pissed that their money is going to students who can't play football.
Waterloo football isn't likely to rebound from this self inflicted chastisement and I can't see anyone willingly donating money to support student atheletes if the University is this anal retentive about group punishments.
Hell, it likely won't matter anyway, they'll be lucky to recruit any football players or even student atheletes for the next 20 years because of this disaster.
I can't help but think this all could have been avoided if someone in authority had stepped up and honestly looked at the 18 year old 5'10" 180lb receiver who, suddenly showed up to camp weighing 220 pounds of pure muscle, looking more like Ben Johnson than the skinny 18 year old kid they actually drafted.