Steroid use by college football players

A few college athletes are caught using prohibited drugs. Does it mean that they don’t use doping products? 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 assure anti-doping agencies that they win in the war on doping. But several suspicions appear. It is believed that many college football players administer steroids and/or other related medications but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in appearance of college football players lead to controversial affirmations. Thus, changes in body mass of over 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results manifested that numerous college football players increased their body mass in short period of time essentially. Over 20 pounds were gained by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Furthermore, near 100 individuals increased the body mass by more than 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were obvious.
Some experts assure that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping agencies. They affirm that anti-doping officers shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests only because they have enhanced body mass obviously.
But other specialists have another opinion. Although they agree that it is impossible to affirm that certain football players have applied steroids and/or other related drugs, basing just on changes in body mass, they note that the changes may be a factor that causes suspicions connected with application of steroids. Thus, such persons that have enhanced body weight in short time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Some college football players that increased body mass evidentially in short period of time were asked about their changes. The athletes affirmed that they had never applied any forbidden medicines. 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 significant results were achieved by them because of suitable diets. According to them, it was not difficult to get many pounds in short period of time.