Wow. I’m pretty sure that I have never seen a story like this in the twenty…. thirty…. ok ok FORTY plus years that I have been following sports. Stop laughing, most of you are there with me.
BYU basketball player Brandon Davies has been suspended for the rest of the season for breaking the student honor code of the university. His transgression? Admitting to having sex with his girlfriend. Wow. A leading player on the 3rd ranked team in the country. A team having a magical, once in a lifetime season. Wow.
My first reaction is that I do feel bad for Davies and the rest of the Cougars. BYU is not a team that will reload and have another Jimmer Fredette next year. However, I can’t blame BYU for enforcing their code of conduct. It’s something that is front and center and made clear to every potential student of the university. It’s not something that is a surprise to students or forced on them. They know the deal going in.
While 99% of college students would not be able to live up to the code, BYU makes no bones about the fact that their university is for the 1% who can. I give them credit for having their standards. That’s not a bad thing and something that our kids could benefit from more of.
I hope that Davies learns that when he agrees to something, it’s something to live up to. I can tell you from my experience that many kids nod their heads a lot agreeing to something and really don’t grasp the magnitude. Hopefully for Davies, lesson learned.
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