re: If you were Mauk would you transfer?

Was a student at SBU for like 6 years. If he went there, I'd actually go to a football game lol

Don't know meeting schedules for Sundays, but you don't think its more likely roomies smoked a blunt and both got popped on a random?

I was told that THC in the pee isn't a "legal" issue. Random drug test can't be prosecuted as crimes on their own. As far as the coke thing, I've said from the beginning I hope that's not true. But you know how when these things happen, the second and third hand stories come out.

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just because they didn't get caught by the law doesn't mean it can't be an "illegal" act, which is of course a violation of team rules as they called it. It just sounds likely whatever happened didnt require them to be there at the moment it came out. Either way we are now in the Lock era and Mauks play wasn't taking any real strides to think he is going to get the job back.

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The strongest rumor (and I realize that's an oxymoron) that I can cobble together from people in CoMo and some of the interweb self anointed "insider" types is something along these lines:
One of Mauk and Cuellar's Mizzou teammates either witnessed them with an illegal substance of some kind or just found said substance in their room, and that teammate reported it to the Mizzou coaching staff, who hence took action. Law enforcement seemingly has never been involved. Neither Mauk nor Cuellar has confessed yet to the illegal substance being theirs; obviously if either one confessed they'd be booted automatically but if neither one confesses what do you do? Boot them both? That would be I guess the only part still up in the air. Nobody has witnessed any "transactions" as far as them dealing any illegal substances, and the suspension is not for being a dealer, but there seems to be plenty of campus chatter to the effect that some how one or both of those guys was involved in some transactions.

Again, the above is all just rumor and chatter, but a story somewhat like the above is coming from multiple places at this point, both from different interwebs people and also on my end one of my Columbia friends heard something similar to that from a Mizzou booster in town.

But wouldn't the presence of said illegal substance require police to be involved making it a legal issue? Someone would need to be charged with possession...correct?

1. Most of the athletes do illegal activity. Whether its underage drinking or weed, probably 95% have done either at some point. There are some strait laced, but very few.

2. Its pretty common knowledge that the football stars like to party. Mostly drinking and weed, but coke is around too.

I really doubt it is a "problem" as some have suggested, but rather a situation like any other college kid who likes to party.

If I had to put money down, here are the 2 scenarios that I can really see. Remember, this had to have happened between the end of the game saturday and tuesday.

1. Mauk and Cuellar were caught smoking weed (or coke, if you want to go wild)....either by drug test or a tattle tale.

2. They broke some team rule that isn't a big deal in the grand scheme....curfew, late to meeting/missed a team meeting.

I'd put my money on 1. Not a legal issue because the police didn't catch them. Having weed would not be an automatic boot.

It could also just be a case where, as 5thTiger mentioned, they have been doing this for awhile but were wise enough not to get caught...but after UK and all the turmoil with his family I could certainly see a situation where Mauk either just deliberately said "screw it" and left it out in the open to get suspended and leave on his own terms rather than deal with maybe getting dislodged as a starter anyway at a time when he's dealing with his dad's illness....or a scenario where he's been doing this awhile but the combo of the UK game and his dad's illness weighing on him was just so much that he took it further than usual and got himself into a situation of getting caught out in the open somehow whereas usually he would have been careful enough not to.

I don't know. It's all just rumor but you all know how the Columbia bubble is, stuff starts flying around there like a high school hallway and although stuff gets contorted and twisted, its usually stemming from something somewhere that was legitimately leaked that shouldn't have been.

Plenty of kids in both suburban and urban America are encountering drug problems at early ages in high school. Athletes like football players who get early access to painkillers are some of the most exposed to it. We all know its just a hop skip and a jump from there to some bad addictive substances. To say nothing of how prevalent we all know weed is, of course.

It's just something we all have to be realistic about with high school and college kids in this country right now. I know we expect them to be "leaders" and what not but you have to realize the sort of environment they are in day to day and what they are exposed to. Some of them are bound to make mistakes at that age. Not defending it, but we all see it happen with the kids next door, let alone high profile college athletes.

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But wouldn't the presence of said illegal substance require police to be involved making it a legal issue? Someone would need to be charged with possession...correct?

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I believe so, yes. It's not a legal issue at this time because the coaches caught him and the police didn't. From that standpoint, he's lucky. If it's accurate that a friend and teammate turned him in to the coaches, I can only imagine how concerned he must be to have taken that step.

It may just be your computer, my avi showed on mine.

Dammit. Now I have to find a new avi.