Sample's accusations get national attention

Convinced that the random drug tests are not random at all, Ian wrote:
"The higher ups definitely know what they are doing when they decide who will be tested. However, getting tested doesn't necessarily mean getting caught, every once in a while a player will side step a positive test result by flushing out their system [the real smokers know where to go to get a cleansing elixir]." (USA Today, SI, Houston Chronicle, HSB, HA)


About how UH officials are reviewing and evaluating the content of the book and the Internet postings, UH Associate AD John McNamara said:
"Additionally, we will meet with the necessary parties and determine what steps, if any, need to be taken." (USA Today, SI, HSB, Houston Chronicle, HA)


Calling Ian's claim about the drug testing a lie, JJ explained that the NCAA supplies a random list of players, UH doesn't choose them:
"Absolutely a lie. It's a farce to assume we hand pick them. We don't have anything to do with it." (HSB, Houston Chronicle, HA)

"We don't have anything to do with it. These are the greatest kids in the world. It's a shame someone would throw them under the bus. With the Internet, anyone can say what they want. It's so dishonorable." (USA Today, SI, Houston Chronicle)


Sample said that JJ is entitled to his opinion:
"But when he talks about throwing people under the bus, if he gets really bored one day and goes to the public library and reads the book, he might have some different thoughts." (HSB, USA Today, SI, Houston Chronicle)


Ian claimed that when the random urine tests were conducted:
"it's amazing that none of our valuable players are ever selected, especially the ones known for smoking weed. The players that are selected to go piss in a cup are the ones less valuable and the ones that have become a nuisance to coaches or the team." (USA Today, SI, Houston Chronicle, HA)


About why he didn't include Sample's more controversial material in the book, George Engebretson of Watermark Publishing said:
"I don't think it really contributed to the story that Ian and I together wanted to tell." (USA Today, SI, Houston Chronicle, HA)

"I had a certain vision what would be in this book and basically it would be a positive story about the UH football program and that's what we did." (Houston Chronicle, HA)

HC Note: "Engebretson wouldn't comment on Sample's possible motive to post the material on the Internet and said there are no plans of reprinting the book to include the omitted work."

USA Note: "Sample wrote that marijuana was the drug of choice for the Warriors, but said he believed some players used steroids."


Claiming that some players used steroids, Sample wrote:
"Have people on the team taken steroids? Yes, they have. Sometimes it's obvious, you see someone improve over a couple months by leaps and bounds — we all know it's naturally impossible. I think it's known but not really talked about." (Houston Chronicle, HA)


About how people on and off the football team would do schoolwork for money, Sample wrote:
"If the money is right, and it always is, they will 'help' us write papers; anything from simple response papers to 20-page research papers. Their 'help' is unlimited and completely unassisted." (Houston Chronicle)


About how the entire team knows about the people who do schoolwork for money, Sample said:
"The best part is that some of the coaches know all about it. I've even heard coaches openly applaud their work." (Houston Chronicle)