Obvious changes in body weight of college athletes

A few college athletes are caught applying forbidden medications. 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 anabolic steroids and/or other doping products. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the fight against doping. But some suspicions appear. It is believed that numerous college football players apply anabolic steroids and/or other related medications but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in appearance of college football players lead to controversial statements. So, changes in body weight of more than 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results showed that a lot of college football players increased their body weight in short period of time evidentially. Over 20 pounds were obtained by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Furthermore, circa 100 individuals increased the body mass by over 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were evident.
Certain specialists assure 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 weight essentially.
But other experts have another opinion. Although they agree that it is impossible to be sure that several football players have administered steroids and/or other related medications, basing only upon changes in body mass, they notice that the changes may be a factor which causes suspicions linked with usage of steroids. Thus, such individuals that have increased body mass in short period of time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Several college football players that enhanced body weight essentially in short period of time were asked about their changes. The sportspersons affirmed that they had never administered any prohibited preparations. They claimed that they reached such dramatic changes naturally. The college athletes noticed that they had consumed much food for this purpose. So, they assured that such obvious results were reached by them with the help of suitable diets. According to them, it was not difficult to get many pounds in short period of time.