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Death Valley. Tiger fans. And conspiracy theories. Is it a coincidence?
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Except at Clemson, where it is very much an active story. The two players suspended alongside Lawrence, tight end Braden Galloway and offensive lineman Zach Giella, saw their suspensions extended for the entirety of the 2019 season, and Clemson has not, at least publicly, how the trio put the “trace amounts” of ostarine in their bodies. In fact, Dabo Swinney mused that Clemson may have given it to the players by mistake, which seems like a very big deal. Imagine if, instead of Galloway and Giella who were accidentally given the ostarine, it was Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne.
(Seriously, sit and imagine if Lawrence and Etienne were suspended for an entire season for accidentally taking banned substances and Clemson didn’t know how it got to them.)
While Clemson officials have been careful to forward an official explanation, Clemson fans were all too happy to fill in the blanks with their own theories. The Charleston Post & Courier obtained all ostarine-related electronic correspondence among the Clemson athletics department, which found multiple fan emails theorizing Lawrence, Galloway and Giella were the victims of food tampering.
As you might expect, the emails screech with the skin-crawling awkwardness that always appears any time someone brings message board jibber jabber to real life.
And yet, misinformation will always rush to fill any void created by a lack of information, especially on the Internet, and just exactly how ostarine ended up in the trio’s respective systems remains a mystery.
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Except at Clemson, where it is very much an active story. The two players suspended alongside Lawrence, tight end Braden Galloway and offensive lineman Zach Giella, saw their suspensions extended for the entirety of the 2019 season, and Clemson has not, at least publicly, how the trio put the “trace amounts” of ostarine in their bodies. In fact, Dabo Swinney mused that Clemson may have given it to the players by mistake, which seems like a very big deal. Imagine if, instead of Galloway and Giella who were accidentally given the ostarine, it was Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne.
(Seriously, sit and imagine if Lawrence and Etienne were suspended for an entire season for accidentally taking banned substances and Clemson didn’t know how it got to them.)
While Clemson officials have been careful to forward an official explanation, Clemson fans were all too happy to fill in the blanks with their own theories. The Charleston Post & Courier obtained all ostarine-related electronic correspondence among the Clemson athletics department, which found multiple fan emails theorizing Lawrence, Galloway and Giella were the victims of food tampering.
As you might expect, the emails screech with the skin-crawling awkwardness that always appears any time someone brings message board jibber jabber to real life.
Considering fewer than 20 of the 125 players on Clemson’s roster were tested and only three came back guilty, the plot of a rogue, Clemson-hating food worker seems to have flopped.
And yet, misinformation will always rush to fill any void created by a lack of information, especially on the Internet, and just exactly how ostarine ended up in the trio’s respective systems remains a mystery.
Until an official source is found and explained publicly, Clemson fans will continue their own work to crack the case — and then share it with Clemson officials.
Via email, Clemson fans pitch athletics department officials on conspiracy to inject Tigers players with banned substance
Clemson officials still have yet to discover how Dexter Lawrence, Braden Galloway and Zach Giella took the NCAA-banned substance ostarine.
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