re: Grier has filed appeal, says substance was approved by NCAA (update in OP)

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A 1 year penalty for an OTC supplement that was previously approved, seems harsh to most reasonable people and I think that's where the appeal will focus.

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isn't this substance he allegedly took fairly new? Just because it wasn't banned last year doesn't mean it was "approved." The NCAA doesn't have a list of approved substances. They have a list of banned substances. When a new supplement comes out, it may take a little while before it's banned. So regardless if it hadn't been previously banned, it was clearly banned when Grier took it. And the NCAA seems like they at least do a good job of informing teams of any new substances that are banned each year. And if the argument is that the NCAA didn't inform Florida this was a banned substance, then that likely means no one in NCAA football was notified.