The handful of players who get caught every year are just plain stupid. They know the test is coming. They know when it will be.
Now he'll be put in the league's substance abuse program and be subject to random, year round testing. Expect a drop in his performance. Unless he starts using hgh. . . .
I agree with this.
These guys know they are going to be tested and they know when it's going to happen.
The thing that makes this so bad for Cushing, is the fact that he denied all the steroid rumors, post draft, pretty emphatically.
I don't blame the kid for what he did. If any of us had the chance to make millions in the pros, with understanding that we had to juice up to do it, most of us would take that chance.
And beach you're right, I would expect Cushing's play to drop.