The Denton Record-Chronicle in Denton, Tex., reported this week that 15 members North Texas' football team tested positive for drugs earlier this season.

Mean Green (great name) coach Todd Dodge ordered the testing earlier this season and the results were obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

The paper did not release the names of the players, but I doubt these were performance enhancing drugs considering the Mean Green are 0-8 on the season have been outscored by an average of 50-16.9. And in fact coach Dodge said he ordered the tests purely for recreational drugs.

While the tests were not for performance enhancing drugs, this story does raise a storyline often overlooked in college athletics. While society often raises an eyebrow or two at the cleanliness of professional athletes, especially after the plight of Barry Bonds, college athletes rarely suspected of trying to get that extra edge.

While I'm not saying it's as rampant in college as it is in professional sports, with the ever-increasing commercialization of college athletes, and the demand asked of them, it's only natural that some, not most, but some, are delving into the world of performance enhancers.

The NCAA does have a testing policy, but with so many athletes in so many sports, it's impossible to test every one of them. Fans like to believe that all college athletes are clean, but it's stories like this one that offer a glimpse of the reality of big-time college athletics.

-- Wible