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Getbig Misc Discussion Boards => Sports Discussion Boards => Topic started by: Tre on March 02, 2011, 12:34:32 PM
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American Taliban, baby.
The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that leading BYU rebounder Brandon Davies was booted from the team because he engaged in premarital sex, a violation of the school’s honor code that says students must remain “chaste and virtuous.”
In the Cougars’ first game without Davies, they lost to New Mexico 82-64 on Wednesday.
"He told us he was sorry and let us down," BYU guard Jimmer Fredette said after the game. "We told him it's OK. Sometimes in life we make mistakes. We've got to play through it."
BYU coach Dave Rose discussed the school’s honor code, which is tied to the university’s Mormon base.
"Everybody who comes to BYU, every student if they're an athlete or not an athlete, they make a commitment when they come," Rose said of a code that also forbids use of alcohol and coffee and requires students to be honest and attend church regularly. "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."
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He knew the rules. If didn't want to follow them, don't go to BYU.
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Shouldn't have enrolled at BYU when their honor code has been known for how many decades now? Seems to work for everyone else that attends.
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Exactly. Why go to BYU and then not follow the rules that you KNOW they will enforce?
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The thing is, she's carrying MY child. Brandon didn't do shit. He shouldn't be punished for dating a whore.
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wait a sec- is the dude black and the girl white/mormon?
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I actually give BYU props for sticking to their guns. They were easily an elite 8 team this year with Davies. Most schools would've buried it.
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Davies is black yes, and I'm willing to put money on it, that the young lady is indeed white.
Great! WINNING! :D
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I actually give BYU props for sticking to their guns. They were easily an elite 8 team this year with Davies. Most schools would've buried it.
Moses would have to part the red brackets for that to happen
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Moses would have to part the red brackets for that to happen
You know they're ranked #3 in the country right now, right? Never mind, I doubt you did.
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You know they're ranked #3 in the country right now, right? Never mind, I doubt you did.
You know that doesn't matter during March Madness...remember Im in ACC territory...
You know how many times MD has beaten Duke over the yrs and Duke was #1...or when Duke and NC were #1 seeds and not make the finals...
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You know that doesn't matter during March Madness...remember Im in ACC territory...
You know how many times MD has beaten Duke over the yrs and Duke was #1...or when Duke and NC were #1 seeds and not make the finals...
The #1's have been faring quite well in recent years. BYU, with Davies, is a very, very good team. An Elite 8 run wouldn't be the least bit surprising.
Until last year Duke was becoming known for under-performing so I don't think they're a good example.
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Must been on that Bristil Palin abstinence scholarship. ::)
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The #1's have been faring quite well in recent years. BYU, with Davies, is a very, very good team. An Elite 8 run wouldn't be the least bit surprising.
Until last year Duke was becoming known for under-performing so I don't think they're a good example.
Duke has good teams, but most of their players never are "stars" in the NBA, count Grant, Christian and Jason Williams aside...
Coach K has always emphasized team players versus stars when recruiting--his strategy works.
I just don't buy the #3, 2, 1 unless it's been held for months, and even then, when March Madness cones around, said school will lose to lower seeds...we all remember back in the early 90's when The Orangemen were ranked very high and lost to the Richmond Spiders.
I just don't buy the ranking, as to me, it really comes down to Conference and strength of schedule. Generally speaking, the ACC is the hardest Conference in terms of b-ball...
Now, I don't know what BYU's schedule looked like so, I cannot say that they have a harder or easier schedule.
Most importantly I can't wait till tourney time.
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I actually give BYU props for sticking to their guns. They were easily an elite 8 team this year with Davies. Most schools would've buried it.
THIS
If that was O$U, you could murder someone and they would ignore it. I mean, two women have been raped by Norte Dame Football players and one woman has killed herself and the other is suing them, but the two players on still on the Norte Dame football squad. :-\ :-\
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BYU kicked out the school's all time leading rusher last year for exactly the same thing. they take the honor code seriously out there
how damn hard is it to wear a fucking condom when your entire future rides on it.
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If that was O$U, you could murder someone and they would ignore it. I mean, two women have been raped by Norte Dame Football players and one is woman killed herself and the other is suing them, but the two players on still on the Norte Dame football squad. :-\ :-\
Yep, heard about that...some put $ over the principles...BYU kicked out the school's all time leading rusher last year for exactly the same thing. they take the honor code seriously out there
how damn hard is it to wear a fucking condom when your entire future rides on it.
"Wear a condom. Your entire future rides on it."
Good PSA...
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Must been on that Bristil Palin abstinence scholarship. ::)
hahaha. im glad this happened to them.
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He knew the rules. If didn't want to follow them, don't go to BYU.
This ^^^
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The thing is, she's carrying MY child. Brandon didn't do shit. He shouldn't be punished for dating a whore.
I guess everyone missed this quote ???
Is she a muscle chick Tre?
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The interesting thing is if he married her and 5 other women, he would have been given a key to the city
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If she woulda taken it in the ass like a good lil whore, this never wouldve happened.
WINNING!!!!!!!
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The interesting thing is if he married her and 5 other women, he would have been given a key to the city
If she woulda taken it in the ass like a good lil whore, this never wouldve happened.
Good points. bang 5 wives in the ass and you're a hero. Have sex with someone you love and boom, suspension. Crazy.
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American Taliban, baby.
Hey asshole. Post pics of the woman or STFU.
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Good points. bang 5 wives in the ass and you're a hero. Have sex with someone you love and boom, suspension. Crazy.
If youre gonna quote me and reply to it please include the...
'WINNING!!!!'
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Good points. bang 5 wives in the ass and you're a hero. Have sex with someone you love and boom, suspension. Crazy.
Polygamy isn't officially sanctioned by the LDS (anymore, at least), but Mormonism has several fringe offshoots and movements that still support polygamy. Basically, people that aren't happy with the fact that the LDS doesn't still condone polygamy leave and start their own branches of the faith. ;)
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The interesting thing is if he married her and 5 other women, he would have been given a key to the city
Glad to see everyone else has reached a consensus.
Meanwhile, I'm going to continue to believe that when you have a religion drilled into your brain from the age of 0 and "choosing" to leave that religion would entail disassociating yourself from your family and everyone you've ever known, then continuing that path at age 17 is not a completely "voluntary" choice.
And in my mind, 17-21 year olds shouldn't have their lives thrown upside down because they choose not to follow a set of questionable religious precepts that have been imposed on them since birth. I think such penalties are draconian, "voluntary" choices involved or not.
But hey, people are entitled to different opinions right? That's why pluralism is so great!
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There was one other player several years ago named Jenkins (later played for the Chargers) who was kicked out of the school. The joke was that "he must have phukked a white girl."
I believe like most here have posted, that Bring'Em Young sucks ass, but they are at least very up-front about their rules. I don't agree with the argument that people don't have choices because stuff is "drilled into them." Even if that were true, to my knowledge a good deal of Bring'Em Young's "student-athletes" are not affiliated with LDS so they attend for reasons other than being psychologically imprisoned by tyrannical parents or caregivers.