<p>I know it's against the rules of BYU to engage in pre-marital sex but come on man. Suspending a player from the team is going overboard. The school basically screwed itself over in the tourney. </p>
<p>Thoughts? Was BYU right in their decision?</p>
<p>BYU</a> says Brandon Davies' honor code dismissal not criminal in nature - ESPN</p>
<p>Thats bs. You get a athletic scholarship to play, not to be ridiculed on what happens in your personal life.</p>
<p>He is a Mormon, agreed to the honor code, broke it, came forward and admitted it, was “embraced with forgiveness,” and accepted the consequence of not playing this season (he will return next season). This, at least, is from what I’ve heard of it.</p>
<p>BYU was having its best season yet and was going to the top; not a lot of schools would give that up for their honor code and principles. I may not agree with all of them (no tea?), but it is admirable that they cared more about their honor code than winning a ball game.</p>
<p>He knew the rules and he broke them. Whether you agree with the rules or not is irrelevant. At least BYU didn’t treat him special because he’s an athlete.</p>
<p>BYU is not your typical school. I am sure he was well aware of that going in. People choose BYU for a particular religious environment, and while I don’t agree with it from what I’ve heard about BYU I’m surprised his punishment wasn’t worse. I am not a mormon and even I know how important the honor code is to that school, so I have to respect their decision.</p>
<p>Fifty years from now nobody is going to remember Brandon Davies having sex but fifty years from now everybody is going to remember that BYU were national champions. They are blowing this out of proportion. You cannot tell me that out of the 32,000 students enrolled there that nobody is having sex.</p>
<p>52677747, that’s the same reason why I’m baffled as well. Besides, how could you enforce such a rule when the idea of sexual activity and it’s morality is subjective in nature.</p>
<p>It’s BYU, no one should be surprised. Their like the equivalent of Westboro Baptist Church.</p>
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<p>If they are the equivalent of Westboro Baptist Church(?), then we should be surprised that BYU didn’t damn him to hell.</p>
<p>I haven’t been reading much about the incident but was aware of his suspension since I follow college hoops. My question is this: how did they find out abouit the incident-- did someone “kiss and tell”?</p>
<p>He felt guilty and came forward.</p>
<p>I like that they’re not treating athletes like demi-gods like they do in other schools. Other colleges should take a page out of their book.</p>
<p>Some of you don’t know how wrong this is. This guy has probably been playing basketball all his life. Basketball is his passion. He wants to go to the NBA. There are NBA scouts at almost every one of the games. The scouts see Jimmer playing, the scouts see everybody else playing except Brandon Davies. Where’s Davies? He’s riding the bench because he had sex. See how stupid that sounds? The reason that college athletes get special treatment is because they are representing YOU. Whenever they are playing they are proud to wear the school colors and proud to wear the school name. Some of you don’t understand that it’s more than just a game, it’s life. They practice the majority of the day, everyday, because they have a goal and that goal is to make it to the top, to be a pro. Guys like Seth Curry, Nolan Smith, Singler, Ben Hansborough are under constant pressure because not only are they supposed to put up numbers or their draft stock goes down, they have to follow their families footsteps and go pro.</p>
<p>For people at BYU, I would generally say religion > basketball.</p>
<p>He came forward because he felt guilty, even though he knew it would result in his suspension this season. It was important to him that he resolve things with his conscience and his God. Obviously others may have felt differently in his situation, but for this guy, religion is his passion.</p>
<p>^What a crazy move made by him when millions and reputation are at stake for the University. Basketball brings in alot of money for schools but I won’t go ahead and assume BYU would’ve won the tourney.</p>
<p>Still, not every student and not every college care more about basketball or money than religion.</p>
<p>damn that religion</p>
<p>Well I believe they should treat athletes better than everyone else because college athletes are better than everyone else. Anyone can get accepted to college and study but being able to play a sport at the d1 level is incredible especially when you must also study. Plus athletes bring pride to their school who has more school pride an MIT student or a U of Florida student?</p>
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Bad example. MIT alumni are well known for always wearing the MIT ring. I think it’s been described as the second most well-known/respected ring in the world.</p>
<p>Plus, I know plenty of UF students (I’m from Florida) who don’t like sports, think the athletes are annoying, or are otherwise uncaring.</p>
<p>So I’m not sure that a statement on school pride can be made differentiating MIT and UF.</p>