BYU's leading rebounder Brandon Davies kicked off team for violating Honor Code

TheSportsPredictor · Apr 13, 2011

secretariat said:

Stitch said:

TheSportsPredictor said:

Just a coincidence that the last two guys kicked off BYU teams for having sex were black, right?
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The white guys get married.
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No, NOW we're off.
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http://deadspin.com/#!5791461

Since 1993, according to our research, at least 70 athletes have been suspended, dismissed, put on probation, or forced to withdraw from their teams or the school after running afoul of the honor code. Fifty-four of them, or nearly 80 percent, are minorities. Forty-one, or almost 60 percent, are black men. These are conservative numbers, compiled from media reports and interviews. In several cases, we could not confirm an honor code violation. In other cases, we could not establish the race or ethnicity of the athlete involved. We excluded those cases from our tally.

Clearly, though, something is amiss at BYU, where around 23 percent of the athletes are minorities, according to the university. Only .6 percent of the student body is black (176 out of the 32,947 students enrolled in 2010). Yet a majority of the honor code violations involve black athletes. Do these numbers mean these athletes "sin" more than everyone else? Hardly. Several former BYU football players told us that their white teammates routinely broke the honor code and got away with it, either because they didn't get caught or because their violations were covered up. (To a lesser extent, this holds true for Polynesian athletes. More on that later.) Mormon athletes can turn to bishops and church leaders from their own homogeneous communities — people who look like them and might even be related to them — to "repent" and avoid official punishment. Black athletes, who are typically non-Mormon, rarely have this option.
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YankeeFan · Apr 13, 2011

To show how much times have changed, my grandfather was thrown off the Canisius College football & basketball teams for being married -- and he was a captain on both teams.

They actually kept the marriage a secret for as long as possible, but once it was found out he was done.

He turned to professional wrestling for a while and we have the clips from the local paper covering his first pro match. It talked about how his former coach and teammates were in the crowd.

Funny to think about now.

Uncle.Ruckus · Aug 26, 2011

He's been reinstated.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/6899851/byu-reinstates-honor-code-violator-brandon-davies

Baron Scicluna · Aug 27, 2011

YankeeFan said:

To show how much times have changed, my grandfather was thrown off the Canisius College football & basketball teams for being married -- and he was a captain on both teams.

They actually kept the marriage a secret for as long as possible, but once it was found out he was done.

He turned to professional wrestling for a while and we have the clips from the local paper covering his first pro match. It talked about how his former coach and teammates were in the crowd.

Funny to think about now.
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That also happened to Joe Savoldi, who was a star running back in the 1930s at Notre Dame who got secretly married (and I think, divorced too), when it wasn't allowed.

Notre Dame found out, threw him out, he joined the Bears and played briefly in the NFL before quitting to make more money as a pro wrestler..

cyclingwriter · Aug 27, 2011

Baron Scicluna said:

YankeeFan said:

To show how much times have changed, my grandfather was thrown off the Canisius College football & basketball teams for being married -- and he was a captain on both teams.

They actually kept the marriage a secret for as long as possible, but once it was found out he was done.

He turned to professional wrestling for a while and we have the clips from the local paper covering his first pro match. It talked about how his former coach and teammates were in the crowd.

Funny to think about now.
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That also happened to Joe Savoldi, who was a star running back in the 1930s at Notre Dame who got secretly married (and I think, divorced too), when it wasn't allowed.

Notre Dame found out, threw him out, he joined the Bears and played briefly in the NFL before quitting to make more money as a pro wrestler..
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Lance Alworth got married in high school in Mississippi. Ole' Miss wouldn't recruit him because the football coach didn't allow married players so he ended up at Arkansas.

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