Mack Brown had basically adopted a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for drug users on his teams.

In the past, getting away with using drugs as a Texas Longhorns football player wasn't particularly difficult.

Former head coach Mack Brown administered an average of 104 drug tests per year during the 2010 to 2013 football seasons, according to a report published by the Austin American-Statesman.

In the eight months under new head coach Charlie Strong, there have been 188 drug tests administered, almost double the annual rate under Brown.

The biggest change in philosophy is in the timing. Under Brown, players basically knew when they were going to be tested -- according to the records, Brown typically tested his players during the spring and in mid-October.

Strong, on the other hand, has administered a series of tests, beginning with 104 during a stretch in March that matched the annual rate under Brown.

Basically, any players using marijuana could be reasonably sure about when they needed to get clean, a process that takes a shorter period of time for athletes with faster metabolisms and less body fat (in general) than a random sampling of the population.

For those players interested in harder drugs, there was virtually zero chance of being caught.

After all, Brown didn't even test the whole team at one time -- the annual rate suggests that either some players were never tested or roughly half the team was tested in the spring and the other half during the fall. Either way, the end result was a program culture with little ability to identify or punish players using drugs.

Here's the timeline for tests under Strong:

Date No. of tests March 19-28 104 April 11 18 April 30 2 May 3 1 July 19 15 August 11 2 August 22 7 August 29 2





As for a timeline on dismissals, fullback Chet Moss and safety Leroy Scott were dismissed before the first round of drug tests, indicating that their dismissals were likely the result of other issues, assuming that the tests that immediately followed were indeed the first.

The round of dismissals prior to the start of fall camp were probably at least in part a result of the round of drug tests on July 19 for at-risk players or previous offenders, as previously reported.

Since the NCAA only tests athletes during championships events, the burden for the rest of the year falls on individual schools. However, the NCAA has recently changed rules that give players four strikes instead of three under previous rules.

So while the NCAA is reducing penalties for the use of marijuana, Strong is increasing testing to make sure that he catches it.

The significant increase in the frequency of drug tests administered to football players sheds further light on the inanity of this offering from yesterday:

The Strong-means-buisness rhetoric gains steam, but reality is guys being dismissed have either done heinous acts or are repeat offenders. — Ryan Autullo (@AutulloAAS) September 23, 2014

Calling Strong's approach "rhetoric" is ludicrous on the surface based on all the dismissals and is made even more so by the fact that Autullo's employer was uncovering just how much Strong has changed the frequency of drug testing to ensure that players adhere to his core values, one of which is "no drugs."

It's true that the players have essentially dismissed themselves after being given multiple chances and that Strong doesn't want to kick players off his team -- he wants to help them first.

But to question the sincerity of his efforts? Ludicrous.

Mack Brown may not have been worried about catching players on his team doing drugs, but Charlie Strong is taking that core value seriously.

This is not rhetoric, folks.

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