Bud Selig was Major League Baseball's commissioner during its infamous steroid era, but is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin. Every once and a while, his students give him the third degree about one of baseball's darkest stains.
One day after being informed he would be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Selig spoke with ESPN.com, and admitted his students are "tough" on him.
"They asked me, 'When were you aware of it?'" Selig recalled Monday, "and, 'Why didn't you do more?'"
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Selig, who has long maintained the stance that he should not receive any blame for players' rampant steroid use during his tenure, was quick to point out, again, that he feels he did all he could.
"I talked to a lot of baseball people, over and over and over again," Selig said. "But you know, by 2000, I moved (to impose testing and suspensions) in the minor leagues, which I could do unilaterally. So that's 15 years ago. So this idea that we didn't do anything just isn't accurate.
"You know, I've thought about it a hundred times, because I'm pretty tough on myself. And I honestly don't know what else I could have done. That's my answer."
Selig recalled to his students that he did all he could, even though many believe MLB was way too lenient on steroid use through the 90s and early 2000s.
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"I went back through the whole negotiations," Selig said. "I went through everything. And I told them, 'There was nothing I could do. It's collectively bargained.'
"Now let me ask you a question, and I'm being serious, If you had been me then, what would you have done?"
That is a question a lot of people have tried to answer over the years, but it's one no no one truly knows for sure.
Ultimately, Selig believes baseball has dealt with the problem, and that the sport "wound up with not just the toughest testing in sports but in America."