Want a little perspective over the flap you read about recently pertaining to OU Athletics and sports supplements? Try this. If the Sooner strength and conditioning staff decided to kick things up a cultural level or two and replace sport drinks with green tea, the OU compliance staff would have to file precisely the same NCAA self-report notice that the Associated Press "unearthed" earlier in the week. That's right; green tea is on the list of supplements that universities cannot provide to student-athletes. To do so is to commit an NCAA violation, one that the NCAA would almost certainly classify as secondary, but one that must be reported just the same.
Perspective, Neon and Green Tea