BYU dismisses player

[Trapped in California]

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He fully understood what he was getting himself into going to BYU. He grew up in Provo after all. If he felt he couldn't live by the rules, he could have gone to Weber St, Utah or Utah St - or anywhere else for that matter.

"Everybody who comes to BYU, every student if they're an athlete or not an athlete, they make a commitment when they come," (Coach) Rose said. "A lot of people try to judge if this is right or wrong, but it's a commitment they make. It's not about right or wrong. It's about commitment."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2011/03/03/2011-03-03_brandon_davies_suspended_by_byu_after_admitting_sex_with_girlfriend_breaking_hon.html

At least he owned up to it. More than I can say for a lot of people who always try to rationalize something that clearly wasn't right.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Choices and actions have consequences.

[Mountain Panther]

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.....For having (gasp) sex.


http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6175090


Ridiculous...

Don't get me wrong...sex is REAL fun.....but he did sign the BYU honor code, so I respect BYU for not backing down like most schools would do if they had a legit Final 4 shot.

[UNI5PANTHERS]

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In order to make any furthur conclusions, i need to see a photo of the woman involved.

[PantherChic]

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In order to make any furthur conclusions, i need to see a photo of the woman involved.

Good grief.

[95UNIGRAD]

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ok....Try the giant heading:


Or the first couple lines of the article:


Not sure how you missed that...

Wow, that is just bizarre - I swear, yesterday when I pulled up the article, that headline wasn't above the picture of their football stadium and the article began with "....BYU officials would only confirm Wednesday that Davies wasn't involved in anything criminal that resulted in his dismissal from the team...." - in other words, the first three sentences/paragraphs of the article weren't there (part of which contained what you were talking about). Bizarre. I know it sounds like I'm trying to save face, but it's the God's honest truth...

[williebat]

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True, he knew the rules. However, it's also true that those who live under Sharia Law know the rules if they get their hand cut off for stealing, or women who expose too much skin know the rules prior to having stones thrown at them.

BYU has every right to impose rules like this. I also have every right to call them out for being idiotic.

That is very well said. I agree 99%. Except those who live under sharia law do so often because they were born there.

For some stupid reason he chose to go to BYU

To all BYU recruits there is a perfectly good Midwestern university with a great basketball team where we don't mind who you sleep with as long as it is consensual. Go panthers.

[JayJ79]

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To all BYU recruits there is a perfectly good Midwestern university with a great basketball team where we don't mind who you sleep with as long as it is consensual. Go panthers.

I don't know if I'd go that far. There would be situations where, while perhaps there wouldn't be consequences from the university administration, there would be ostracizing from fans, coaches, teammates, etc.

But who knows.

[UNIpanther99]

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I don't know if I'd go that far. There would be situations where, while perhaps there wouldn't be consequences from the university administration, there would be ostracizing from fans, coaches, teammates, etc.

But who knows.

I would hope not.

[PantherHawk]

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WOW i wonder what would of happened if any of the BYU players attended the Northwestern Human Sexuality class? YIKES! Did anyone hear about that nutty professor up there? basically had a woman use a device in front of the class (at least the people who wanted to stay and watch.)

what is this world coming to?

[williebat]

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I don't know if I'd go that far. There would be situations where, while perhaps there wouldn't be consequences from the university administration, there would be ostracizing from fans, coaches, teammates, etc.

But who knows.

you mean if they were gay? Honestly I don't know if anyone would care. then again maybe they would. Hard to predict these days. For the record I would not care. I bet if the teammates stood with the gay player the fans would as well. Who knows?

[Luther_Heggs]

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WOW i wonder what would of happened if any of the BYU players attended the Northwestern Human Sexuality class? YIKES! Did anyone hear about that nutty professor up there? basically had a woman use a device in front of the class (at least the people who wanted to stay and watch.)

what is this world coming to?

Are you saying having the woman do that was a bad thing? Sounds like a pretty good class to me! I also highly doubt this will make the class any less popular with the students.

[PantherHawk]

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I don't care about it, but I just thought it was funny. The guy is going to lose his job over it. The University is pretty upset and is investigating it. IDK if that was a smart move.

[re17282]

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you mean if they were gay? Honestly I don't know if anyone would care. then again maybe they would. Hard to predict these days. For the record I would not care. I bet if the teammates stood with the gay player the fans would as well. Who knows?

I would think they would more than likely be ostracized for a Lebron James Mom/ Delonte West situation. Shaq / Kobe is another that comes to mind,, heck Magic Johnson's escapades came back to haunt a couple of his teammates and not because they were ever HIV positive.

[UNIGrainer]

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True, he knew the rules. However, it's also true that those who live under Sharia Law know the rules if they get their hand cut off for stealing, or women who expose too much skin know the rules prior to having stones thrown at them.

BYU has every right to impose rules like this. I also have every right to call them out for being idiotic.

I think the key distinction here is that BYU students choose to go to BYU and live under those rules. If you sign the contract and make a commitment, and those rules are clearly spelled out beforehand, you need to face the consequences. Sure, the rules may seem stupid, and maybe they are, but he chose to abide by them.

Most who live under Sharia Law don't get the choice.