Low number of college athletes is caught using steroids

A few college athletes are caught administering banned drugs. Does it mean that they don’t administer performance-enhancing drugs? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping rules. They have tested positive for anabolic steroids and/or other performance-enhancing drugs. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the fight against doping. But certain suspicions arise. It is believed that numerous college football players use steroids and/or other related drugs but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions arise? Changes in physique of college football players lead to controversial opinions. So, changes in body weight of more than 61,000 college football players were lately analyzed by the Associated Press. Results displayed that a lot of college football players enhanced their body mass in short period of time evidentially. More than 20 pounds were acquired by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Moreover, circa 100 persons enhanced the body weight by over 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were obvious.
Certain experts assure that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping officers. They notice that anti-doping officials shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests only because they have enhanced body mass essentially.
But other specialists have another point of view. However they agree that it is impossible to be sure that certain football players have administered steroids and/or other related drugs, basing only upon changes in body mass, they note that the changes may be a factor that causes suspicions connected with usage of steroids. So, such individuals that have increased body mass in short period of time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Some college athletes that enhanced body mass essentially in short period of time were asked about their changes. The sportspersons affirmed that they had never applied any forbidden drugs. They assured that they achieved such great changes naturally. The college athletes noticed that they had consumed much food for this purpose. Thus, they assured that such evident results were achieved by them because of suitable nutrition. According to them, it was not difficult to get many pounds in short period of time.