Update: Multiple Iowa State athletes suspended for season for "breaking team rules," Head coach Jeremy Sudbury confirms none from top 7

Read this very carefully:

Hello Robert,
Thank you for reaching out directly.
There were team rule violations. I have worked with our administration, and the involved athletes have been suspended and will not compete the remainder of this season.
Have a nice rest of your weekend.
Jeremy

That sounds to me like it’s finished. He’s already worked with administration. The punishment has been levied. And not “pushing drugs on athletes” ain’t automatically being pro-clean sport. Silence is as telling as “pushing drugs”. Face it, if NCAA Track and Field and Cross Country is one step below world class, and in some cases on par with, then it should be treated as such. Imagine if someone in Ritz’s group was caught with drugs, didn’t test positive, but was caught with EPO. And he wrote Rojo an email like that one. “There was a team violation. I spoke with On and that athlete has been suspended and will not compete the remainder of this season. Have a nice rest of your weekend”. Ritz would be crucified. Now we think Jeremy Sudbury is a saint because he wrote a snarky email that said nothing. That’s why he is paid the big bucks.

I know this is 2025 but....I have 1st hand witness of an account at said university in the early 80s that a person entered a shared home in said community after practice and flopped open a briefcase on the coffee table and said "Well, what'll you boys be needing this month"?

Hate to break it to you people but this has been going on for a long time. Probably the biggest difference, right or wrong, is the current sea-faring ship of snitches. When the ship starts going down, the rats reveal themselves while swimming for shore. Those who knowingly let wrongdoing occur are equally part of the problem.

Order for the day: Wait 60 seconds and on to the next scandal.

I think there are a lot of posters here that are young, probably high school and college kids, that don't have experience with how things work.

Also, the speed at which we get information (truthful or not) means that people expect a quick resolution. And if that resolution isn't produced soon, then suddenly it's a coverup, and everybody is terrible and in on it.

A lot of people lack the patience to let things play out and will jump on any of the rumors because it makes them feel better to be on the right side early or it confirms their prior beliefs.

I'll withhold judgement until something is actually confirmed.

The confirmation you are looking for will come from younger, college aged kids. The Iowa State investigation is over. Read the press release. It’s the young people who will expose it because they actually know what’s going on. You can wait for your emailed press release from Iowa State University Athletics. I want the Brojo’s to open this thread back up to anonymous posters because they have the answers and don’t want to make an account on this website. Don’t hesitate though to let us know what Sudbury posts on his facebook account. Have a nice rest of your weekend.

I agree with this and I also understand people wanting an answer immediately, it's just not how things work especially when there's way too many university administrators to go through, not to mention fact finding etc.

I guess ultimately my point is that, if the coach had to offer a public statement that quickly it's...as serious as we all think it is. In the same vein he's as appalled by it as we are.

Friday October 31, 2025 at the Big 12 championships in Lawrence, Kansas, three days from today (Tuesday October 28, 2025), we'll find out who is not running on the Iowa state team and that should tell us a lot about who has been suspended.

I believe Iowa State still start as favourites despite losing one or more athletes. They have such depth in their team that they can withstand that setback.

We hope that once this is over this saga will be finished and coach Sudbury can get on with the wonderful job he's doing coaching these kids.

The Iowa State school newspaper finally posted an article about this, but it seemed quite lazy and superficial. They make no mention of reaching out to the coach or the athletic director or to runners on the team.

I’ve not seen anything in the Des Moines register. That is an excellent paper.

If people on this thread really have reliable inside information and want to see the story progress they should be talking to the New York Times either on or off the record or on background. If they are worried about protecting their identity, they should verse themselves in how one talks to the media and secure guarantees in advance of providing information.
A reporter should be at the race Friday asking lots of questions.

Seriously? You know little as it’s commonly given to cancer patients during chemo

Good evening everyone, I have emailed coach Sudbury again today and have an update.

Here is what I wrote him.

Thanks for getting back to me. I just was defending you on the messageaboard. As a former coach, I know these issues can be dicey.

My concern is that a lack of transparency leads to wild speculation. People are now throwing accusations about other teams, and runners etc.

1) Would it be possible to get a llst of the athletes who have been suspended? If not, can you at least confirm that no one who ran in the Gold race at Missouri was suspended as that's what your statement to the Stride Report implied.

2) Your statement to me said "Team rule violations." Can we get anything more specific? Is it related to performance enhancing drugs? Yes or No. If the answer is no, I think it would greatly help the image of you program to state that. If yes, are you going to be reporting them to WADA?

3) On the messageboard, it's been stated that the entire Iowa State team will be drug tested this week. Is that true? Even if it's not true, are you worried people will have doubts about the validity of what the team accomplishes the rest of the year?

If you'd rather speak on the phone or talk off the record, I can be reached at ***..

He reponded as follows.

I then wrote back and said it appears that maybe two things are happening at once as it appears your #3 from the Missouri A-race was arrested last week and asked for an update/statement about his status (and included a screenshot of the arrest record).

Do you know him personally? My interactions with him I found him to be pretty rude and arrogant.

Foreign drivers in Ames getting in accidents is pretty common. The nutrition center for student athletes is located on Jack Trice Blvd.

There is nothing coming from this much to the dismay of several posters. The Kenyan kids did not do what everyone complaining in this thread wishes they did.

It's not up to the coach as to what info to release.

I think NCAA XC/T&F is dirty. The current state has MLB pre Jose Canseco blowing the lid off of things written all over it. I love the sport. I have kids that compete in the sport. One in college D1 and one in Highschool with similar aspirations. The NCAA has approved "supplements" you can take and is suggested you take. If the NCAA has a lot of approved supplements you can take that help with performance and or healing (why else would you take them) then I have no reason to give the benefit of the doubt that they look the other way for the banned stuff. Everything wreaks of gatekeeping, hush hush don't talk about it. We have testing and we have forms that say you can't take the following etc etc etc but it all smells of "wink" "wink" we just have to put that out there but folks are careful, you will be okay, we don't really want to find out. That is my honest opinion of the landscape of NCAA running right now and pro running too.

He totally ignored the question about PEDs. You'd think if his athletes are accused of taking EPO that he'd address that.

So now we have potentially 4 to 5 doped athletes and a car accident with a Foreigner (all recent) amd here you still are praising him. The only thing missing at this stage to make this a movie is murder.

Seems to me that even Rojos patients are wearing thin with these short and non informative responses

I don't think I'd answer specific questions if I were him, either. But FERPA is a weak excuse. It applies to the release of educational data/records. It doesn't prevent him from saying: "Seven runners were suspended for suspicion of PED use." And, very obviously, it doesn't prevent him from saying that runners were NOT suspended for PED use. So let's put to rest to the possibility that this isn't related to PED use.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't hold the brief and uninformative replies against Sudbury. It's very unlikely that he is actually writing them -- at least not before review and editing by the university's legal counsel and/or PR team.

I do agree with the poster who said that we are likely to learn more if anonymous insiders are allowed to post what they know here.

I appreciate rojo's outreach to the coach, but this guy is trying to save his career/livelihood/reputation so of course he's going to give non-answer answers.

I also appreciate Sudbury's use of "Have a nice rest of your weekend" and "hope you have a great week" -- aka, "there's no use in contacting me again this week".

Lastly, the thread now being spelled "Udpdate..." is just classic LetsRun.com

You can see from the responses that most people on here have never worked a real job, or had any serious issues happen at said workplace.

Even something as simple as someone getting fired, the boss can't just start blabbing about the details.

Liability is a real thing, it's not an excuse. Also at some point releasing names could hurt the investigation rather than help it.

This is real world stuff, not a workplace drama on TV.