The 2010 national champion Auburn Tigers scandal continues as news broke of players being found to have used a synthetic marijuana that led to multiple failed drug tests and a decision at the highest levels of the university's athletic department to keep the results confidential, according to ESPN. A six-month investigation by ESPN The Magazine and "E:60" into the spread of synthetic marijuana at Auburn revealed that a dozen students on the football team, including its star running back, Michael Dyer, failed tests for the designer drug.
The school did not implement testing for the drug until after their national championship win in January 2011, and as many as a dozen other seniors who used the synthetic drug were never caught, the investigator also found. The drug -- also referred to as "spice" - has been known to cause paranoid delusions, hallucinations, and, in rare cases, deaths.
Dakota Mosley, a freshman tight end, failed seven consecutive weekly tests for the drug, but was never punished. The tight end told ESPN that he learned he'd failed a sixth test on the same day he was scheduled to meet with NCAA investigators to discuss a probe into potential recruiting violations.
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