You got to hand it to him. Mike Jeffcoat lacked open-mindedness, a willingness to truly evaluate talent, and a tolerance for the time it takes to administer a drug test, but - unlike much of his college coaching brother - the guy had standards. You'd wish they more along the lines of criminal behavior or general moral compass, and made more sense than someone trying to explain the formation of the universe after hot-boxing a dugout, but they were standards nonetheless. His regional bias could have used some tweaking seeing as it was clouding his judgement worse than pot that has 4-seam fastball potency, but you have to admire the confidence necessary to rope off half your prospect pool out of principle while trying to field a formidable team. That principle being political in nature seems oddly hypocritical seeing as Mike Jeffcoat is definitely the type of person that - if you listened closely enough - could be heard screaming "keep yer darned politics out my sports" during the National Anthem this past football season, but everyone's got their own coaching style. Seeing as the following map shows the states that have legalized marijuana in one form or another (in green, obviously), it appears the coaching style of the former manager of Texas Wesleyan was to require less cuts than the Jamaican bobsled team... Common sense says that taking only teenage athletes who haven't smelled weed before wouldn't be conducive to the formula of winning, but I guess you can put THC on the Banned Association of Substances list and feel no worse for the wear when you are coaching in the Sooner Athletic Conference in a league that's most definitely not the NCAA as a former Major Leaguer...
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