Essential changes in body mass of college football players

A few college sportspersons are caught using forbidden medicines. Does it mean that they don’t dope? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping rules. They have tested positive for steroids and/or other doping products. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the fight against doping. But several suspicions arise. It is believed that many college football players administer anabolic steroids and/or other related medicines but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions arise? Changes in physique of college football players lead to controversial opinions. Thus, changes in body mass of more than 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results displayed that numerous college football players enhanced their body weight in short period of time obviously. Over 20 pounds were gotten by more than 4,500 college football players during a year. Moreover, near 100 persons increased the body mass by more than 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were obvious.
Some specialists affirm that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping officers. They note that anti-doping agencies shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests just because they have increased body mass essentially.
But other experts have another point of view. However they agree that it is impossible to be sure that certain football players have used steroids and/or other related drugs, basing just upon changes in body weight, they notice that the changes may be a factor which causes suspicions linked with application of steroids. So, such persons that have increased body mass in short time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Some college football players that enhanced body mass obviously in short period of time were asked about their changes. The athletes affirmed that they had never applied any prohibited preparations. They claimed that they reached such great changes naturally. The college athletes noted that they had consumed much food for this purpose. Thus, they affirmed that such evident results were achieved by them because of appropriate diets. According to them, it was not difficult to get many pounds in short period of time.