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How do you go from 3% of athletes testing positive in the first few months to only 3 positive tests out of more than 2,500 tests administered? Did Auburn conduct only 33 tests with 1 positive result, 67 tests with 2 positives, or 100 tests with 3 positives? Having zero positives from the next 2,400 tests is pretty amazing

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Within the first few months of testing (Jan. 27, 2011 to March 14, 2011), 3 percent of our student-athletes tested positive for synthetic marijuana.

Since our drug testing policy was amended to include synthetic marijuana as a banned substance (March 14, 2011 to now), there have been three positive tests for the drug out of more than 2,500 drug tests administered. Those three individuals are no longer on Auburn Athletics rosters.

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and the numbers of phone calls Auburn claims it made to parents of players. Why the calls if there were no positive tests?

Because there were admittedly positive tests.

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One more question, why did Auburn wait until the start of the next academic year to impose penalties for synthetic marijuana use?

I don't think new student policies can be enforced until the start of a new semester. It would be like changing stipulations in a current contract while the contract is in use. March 14th would be in the middle of the spring semester, enforcement started at the beginning of the next fall semester.