Minnesota wrestling program with drug allegations

[JP4CY]

Tony Hager has a very interesting piece:

http://takedownwrestle.com/wrestlin...ed-university-staff-of-his-specific-concerns/

 

[JSmoove]

The U of M has had quite the last 12 months and not the good kind.

 

[buf87]

Feel bad for J Rob. This will tarnish his 30 years with Minnesota and might cost him his job. I assume he is close to retiring anyway, but thought he should go out on his terms and not with a scandal

 

[JP4CY]

It's picked up everywhere now: CBS, ESPN, Fox.

 

[isufbcurt]

So if I am reading this correctly.

The coach had concerns and asked the AD to test wrestlers. The AD tested but not for everything.

 

[buf87]

So if I am reading this correctly.

The coach had concerns and asked the AD to test wrestlers. The AD tested but not for everything.

I don't think we really know exactly what all went down.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Thought this would get out there faster since you essentially had a drug ring involving wrestlers and the coach tried to cover it up and "handle it." Been a topic in the paper here locally but actually even surprised it's not a bigger story even here. It was a ******* drug ring, buying and selling, not just a couple guys using some drugs.

I agree with the local scribe Patrick Reusse.

The alleged Xanax distribution by four of coach J Robinson’s wrestlers is a greater scandal than the academic fraud that took place in Clem Haskins’ basketball program during the 1990s.[

This isn’t a few athletes saying to other students at a party, “Hey, try one of these.’’ This has been reported as 2,500 Xanax pills. They were shipped by a wrestler no longer in the program to four current wrestlers to serve as the sellers.“That’s an incredible amount of Xanax,’’ an internal medicine doctor told me. “I don’t even know how you would get that amount illegally.’’

 

[isufbcurt]

I don't think we really know exactly what all went down.

ok i thought the article made it sound like the coach was proactive in trying to get the wrestlers drug tested

 

[BoxsterCy]

Tony Hager has a very interesting piece:

http://takedownwrestle.com/wrestlin...ed-university-staff-of-his-specific-concerns/

Fluff piece from his agent to a wresting site. Damage control blaming the administration. Sounds like maybe the acting AD flubbed it but he was covering up criminal activity and he should be out on his *** tomorrow.

More:

http://www.startribune.com/j-robinson-s-agent-issues-statement/381344621/

 

[BoxsterCy]

So if I am reading this correctly.

The coach had concerns and asked the AD to test wrestlers. The AD tested but not for everything.

From last weeks articles on this.

http://www.startribune.com/source-g...t-to-handle-xanax-abuse-internally/380899191/

http://www.startribune.com/allegations-surface-of-drug-abuse-by-u-wrestlers/380748811/

 

[isufbcurt]

From last weeks articles on this.

http://www.startribune.com/source-g...t-to-handle-xanax-abuse-internally/380899191/

http://www.startribune.com/allegations-surface-of-drug-abuse-by-u-wrestlers/380748811/

Thanks

 

[CyArob]

I might apply for the interim interim AD position.

 

[lionnusmb]

That's crazy. I don't quite know how to read this. Obviously this was slipped under the rug, but who, is my question.

Heads gonna roll.

 

[HGoat]

Thought this would get out there faster since you essentially had a drug ring involving wrestlers and the coach tried to cover it up and "handle it." Been a topic in the paper here locally but actually even surprised it's not a bigger story even here. It was a ******* drug ring, buying and selling, not just a couple guys using some drugs.

I agree with the local scribe Patrick Reusse.

The reports from the media are from one anonymous source. I'll wait until the police investigation comes out. J Rob deserves the benefit of the doubt.

 

[1100011CS]

Why in the hell would an athlete want to take Xanax?

 

[BoxsterCy]

The reports from the media are from one anonymous source. I'll wait until the police investigation comes out. J Rob deserves the benefit of the doubt.

I'd trust the media sources before I'd believe an agent. Plus the student wrestler sources are the ones who earlier talked with the police. It was the news folks leading this. They are just following up on the police investigation.

 

[isufbcurt]

Why in the hell would an athlete want to take Xanax?

I ask the same question about meth

 

[BoxsterCy]

That's crazy. I don't quite know how to read this. Obviously this was slipped under the rug, but who, is my question.

Heads gonna roll.

Going to be a good test for the new AD they just hired. Oh, here Mr. Coyle, in addition to our ****ed up men's basketball situation we have this new scandal in the wrestling department involving our longtime coach for you to deal with right out of the gate!

 

[Cycsk]

Making money illicitly by selling pills at $8 apiece seems like a plan that is bound to fail.

 

[Cycsk]

Going to be a good test for the new AD they just hired. Oh, here Mr. Coyle, in addition to our ****ed up men's basketball situation we have this new scandal in the wrestling department involving our longtime coach for you to deal with right out of the gate!

Meanwhile, Jerry Kill is making good money with a nice figurehead position with K-State.