At Neodesha the policy is two weeks of competition whether you are in season or not in season. If you are a wrestler and get caught during football season and don't play football, you are out the first two weeks of competition in wrestling. On the second offense you are out for a full year. You do have the option of going through counseling over the summer and being reinstated the following fall. If you get caught in the spring you are only out one season but if your second one is in the fall you are out the rest of the year. I guess if you get caught a second time that early in the year you have bigger problems then not playing sports. We went to two weeks verses 3 thinking kids would confess quicker. Some tell the truth and they are punished the ones who lie get away with it.
I don't buy into that double standard about what adults do or don't do. If a teacher/coach is caught drinking, chewing whatever with students or while supervising students they should probably go through due process and be fired but on their own time their business. If they get in a car then if they get nabbed by the law due process and they should be fired or whatever. 21 is the law for more then just a magic age, people under that age are still developing brain pathways, they are less experienced drivers, judgement isn't the best. They don't always make the best choices sober let alone drunk, neither do adults but they are legally responsible for their choices. I try not to drink during season, I don't drink in front of my children but I'm not going to say it's a double standard if others do. I just think a lot of people work hard to help our children stay drug and alcohol free why would I blow it but being a bad example.