BYU suspends star athlete for having pre-marital sex
By Jessica GentileMarch 4th, 2011, 8:30 amComments (9)
Brandon Davies, star player for BYU's nationally-ranked basketball team, has been suspended from the team for violating the school's honor code. How so, you ask? By engaging in (gasp) premarital sex. Funny, when I was in college, I always thought the point of becoming a hot-shot athlete was so you could more easily sleep with young coeds. I guess that presents quite the paradox at a Mormon-affiliated university.
To add insult to injury, Davies has even had to apologize to the rest of his teammates. Though in reality, they're probably the only ones who are sorry he indulged his natural sexual urges.
This whole incident brings the school's honor code into question. How realistic is it to expect undergrads to abide by rigidly repressive and moralistic standards, especially during such a formative and exploratory period in their lives? Or rather, how realistic is it to expect anyone to willingly want to attend to BYU?
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Comments ( 9 )
While the gut reaction is to get pissed off at BYU for its asinine honor code, the fact of the matter is this guy chose to go to a school with an asinine honor code, and agreed to abide by it, so I can't feel too sorry for him. He should have just gone to NW, where the teachers let students watch chicks get fucked by saw-zaws.
I was ejected from this school for the same reason, and I can tell you that it's not actually because he had premarital sex. LOTS of people at BYU have premarital sex. No, instead, it's because he either got caught or (like me) refused to lie about it. That's the thing about "apologizing to his teammates." I guarantee you as he looks at them he will know that a lot of them have done the exact same thing.
Apparently, the young lady he had sex with is still there at the school.
Did BYU show up in the Sports Illustrated article on college sports programs that recruit and give scholarships to criminals? I know TCU didn't, and I'm betting BYU didn't either. Wonder if the author if this hit-piece knows anything about college and morals. They are not mutually exclusive, you know.
I don't see the need for criticising BYU. I actually think it's honorable that they upheld their honor code while so many other schools let things slide to keep their athletes playing. The fact of the matter is, BYU is a Mormon school. They have different rules than you would expect from a university. Deal with it. If you're not into them, don't choose to go there. Plenty of people are fine with them. It's a good school and just because it has conservitive rules doesn't mean it's insane or terrible.
Boooooooooooooooooo.
Two young ladies come to my door, one of them says "Do you know anything about Mormonism?". I said "Everything I know about Mormonism I learned from South Park.". One of the women turns to the other and whispers "We hear that a lot.".
As a less-active mormon who graduated from BYU and afterward moved East, I have zero problem with them dismissing Davies. Every student know what he/she is signing up for. They know the rules, and they are crystal clear about the consequences.
Now, the reality is that students are having sex. I saw it when I was there with roommates and friends. However, there are usually three circumstances in which students at BYU get caught and expelled: 1) The wrong "concerned member" hears about it and alerts ecclesiastical authorities (yes, tattle-tales), 2) Pregnancy results from the sexual contact (it's kind of hard to hide), and 3) The individual voluntarily confesses to his leader that he / she engaged in premarital sex. The consequences for all three conditions are the same - expulsion. However, there should be something said for the person who has the integrity to own up to what he/she did. I had a roommate who got kicked out for having sex, and having voluntarily divulged the transgression, he was shown no leniency and was still expelled.
But again, each student knows exactly what is expected of them, and they agree to live by LDS standards. Nobody puts a gun to their head and forces them to agree to anything. So stop with the intellectually feeble attempt at an anti-religion hack job.
Although I agree that it's Davies' fault for deciding to attend a school with such a dumb rule, calling this post "intellectually feeble" is pretty funny, given the credulity required to believe the yarns woven by a con man such as Joseph Smith.
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