The BYU Honor Code

Basketball, NCAA Basketball, Sports

By Blaidd Drwg

As you know, The #3 Ranked BYU Cougars Men’s Basketball team probably cost themselves a legitimate shot at hanging around deep into the NCAA tournament when they kicked Brandon Davies off the team for having pre-marital sex with his girlfriend, which happens to be a violation of the school’s honor code. There was an article posted on ESPN that listed the rules for the honor code. They are:

BYU has had a strict policy of enforcing the honor code. This past football season, running back Harvey Unga was suspended for a violation of the honor code. The BYU honor code statement, from the BYU undergraduate handbook, consists of:

• Be honest
• Live a chaste and virtuous life
• Obey the law and all campus policies
• Use clean language
• Respect others
• Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse
• Participate regularly in church services
• Observe the Dress and Grooming Standards
• Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

My question – how the hell did Jim McMahon manage to not get himself kicked out of BYU? You can’t tell me that he didn’t violate at least one of these in his time in Salt Lake City. If he managed to remain in compliance, I bet he went on one epic bender after his BYU football career was done.

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4 thoughts on “The BYU Honor Code”

  1. Not surprisingly, Steve Young and Danny Ainge both came out in support of BYU’s stance.

    What Danny didn’t say was “I got married when I was a sophomore at BYU! I had tons of sex with my wife, and it was ok’d by the university!”

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  2. The other thing that Ainge didn’t say was “I was actually having sex with my girlfriend before we got married, but because I was that only good, Mormon basketball player in the history of the school, they turned a blind eye to it.” I really wonder if this would have ever come out if Davies was a white Mormon.

    As for Young, do you really think the great-grandson of Brigham Young would have been kicked off the football team for anything short of murder?

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