Posted on 03/04/2011 5:48:45 PM PST by Kaslin
Public Virtue: College basketball fans and other sophisticates scoffed last week that Brigham Young University, by teaching that contracts matter, had finally straitened its lace to the choking point. Not necessarily.
On Thursday a wave of snark rolled across the Web after the school suspended one of its most promising basketball stars. Sophomore Brandon Davies, a 6-foot, 9-inch forward, had — wait for the giggles — admitted to having engaged in something more intimate than personal fouls with his girlfriend.
From reading the online raillery, you'd think you still can't use "Provo" and "premarital sex" in the same sentence. After all, BYU, the Mormon citadel, still enforces an honor code that expects all students to live "a chaste and virtuous life."
Hoop enthusiasts, accustomed to regarding fouls as negotiable currency, couldn't believe the No. 3-ranked Cougars would throw away a shot at the national championship. More cynical observers, noting that collegiate sports serve as indispensable profit centers, laughed that only a religious school would pretend not to have lost its academic virginity.
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Ole’ Miss will take him. The University of Mississippi will do anything for a black athlete.
America in light and darkness.
A BYU women’s rugby team refused to play a championship game on a Sunday.
They’re a principled group of folks and this should not surprise anyone familiar with the mormons.
The player broke a “contract”, BYU is holding him to it.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5123547&source=NCAAHeadlines
I’m wondering what she looks like and if she is worth it.
How come no pictures of the loverly victim?
Should be "The player agreed to a contract, BYU...".
Preview is your friend.
BYU is a private school. Used to be at the now BYU-Idaho you had to sign a paper stating you would abide by their rules.
If that is the case here, I say YAY for them and boo on him.
In the meantime..so called Ivy League schools are experimenting with coed dorm rooms. Our world has been turned upside down. Virtue and morality are bad.
No. Not my world.
Sometimes I pity those fools out there who try to exposit their vapid, vacuous, venal existence. But only very, very rarely.
Bull$#!+.
The Brigham Dung University employee amd alumnus in the replay booth during the San Diego State-BYspew game last October 9 in Provo say all we need to know about the real values of joey’s cult.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/15/replaygate-causes-change-mountain-west/
There is light and dark in this country and the Provo pervos engage in the worst kind of darkness — the darkness that cross dresses as light.
The school probably figured that Davies had a little too much melanin in the skin to really fit in around Provo. Jim McMahon did not have the “problem” that Davies has, despite enjoying the female perks that go along with being a winning QB. Of course Football is more important than hoops, too, right?
Go ahead - protest about how wonderful the polygamist cult is.
Note that Mike Angelis was not in the replay booth, and was not associated with BYU, and he is the one who blew the call.
Prior to that, there was no rule about who could work the replay booth -- but now there is, because there's no point in opening up yourself to hysterical rants like this one.
Excuse me, but the mor(m)ons in the replay booth did not show the revelation angle of the play to the replay official. And the cult members were in charge of the video replays that got shown to Angelis, which you would noted had you read the story objectively.
Same old whining excuse makers for joey’s cult “eeeeewwww, you bigots don’t like us - we follow the rules when we put 25 year old men our football teams to play 19 year old boys! Our made up holy books say that our men need to spend two years on a mission before they graduate from our university. Oh, wait they don’t say that at all, but we do it anyway so we actually can have good teams.”
Pack of f’ing cheatin’ hypocrites and always has been. At least the teams in the MWC that actually don’t bend the rules or flat out cheat won’t have to put up with Brigham Dung after this year.
I think you have told us more about yourself than the mormons.
The league has declined to comment on what happened in the booth. Sterk said he was told “it was human error somehow and the video official did not see the video everyone else saw.”Another article say:
SDSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk later said he was told Angelis somehow didn’t see the video in his booth that everybody else saw at home on TV.From another article:
In Oregon State’s 29-27 win at Arizona last week, four replay reviews went against Oregon State. The replay official, Jim Fogltance, is an Arizona grad. The Portland Tribune said he’s a donor to the Arizona athletic department and questioned the apparent conflict of interest. Fogltance was not suspended.And one last quote:
Angelis owns a deli in Reno, where a worker told a reporter who called Thursday that Angelis said there was “no comment that can be made on this.” Bunn hung up when a reporter called him for comment Wednesday.So far as I can tell, the ONLY person who is saying that the official didn't see all the angles is the head coach for the losing team -- hardly a disinterested observer.
They SUSPENDED the replay official -- which suggests they don't think he didn't see the correct angle, because if it was known that he was denied the replay, why would they suspend him?
There was another call earlier in that same game, a fumble that was recovered by BYU, but that the same replay guy ruled was out of bounds. Odd, that the people you claim were able to improperly influence one call weren't able to give a home-team CORRECT call. Maybe blowing two calls is why they syspended the official.
But it is clear the league didn't want any future question of bias, so they changed the rule; note that other games have had replay workers who were employees of the team.
Your opinion that the people involved were crooked is hurt by your blatant, and leftist, tactic of accusing them of racism in this instance.
There also have been other BYU players suspended for premarital sex; one went on to the pros.
And if I were looking for a church, I would be attracted to the Mormons for much the same reason.
I agree.
It really does work that way. When I lived in Nashville, when the opponents of Mormonism were loud and vocal and got lots of press coverage by saying how bad the Mormon church was (Nasvhille Temple & Fellowship of Christian Athletes are the two stories from that time), the LDS missionaries had a HUGE increase in people interested in learning more about the LDS Church.
Joey Smith would have been kicked out of BYU in his first semester, according to their Honor Code.
You know, I used to think they were OK people too, until I started taking a closer look at what goes on with the institution. Not just bending the rules in athletics. Not just the strange designs in a lot of homes around St. George or Nephi in Utah. Not just the “only cult members permitted” temples.
My career took me to investigating and shutting down boiler rooms and a lot of them seemed to be run by LSD (yes I said LSD) bishops in Utah — aparrently, the cult and the islamics have something in common — its just peachy keen to lie to “gentiles”. Think about that the next time one of the bike riding a-holes show up at your door.
I will mock, insult, ridicule, and point out every flaw in that institution built upon lies, and the idiots or hypocrites that follow it. I will never feel one bit of shame for hating, yes hating mormons and their blasphemous insistence on referring to their cult built on gold plated horse$#!+ as being “christian”.
Joey Smith — The L. Ron Hubbard of the 1820’s.
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