…and gets kicked off the team.

Brandon Davies was dismissed from BYU’s basketball team after he admitted to having sexual relations with his girlfriend, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday.

BYU’s honor code forbids students from having premarital sex and instructs them to “live a chaste and virtuous life.” … University spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said an honor code review is under way to determine if the BYU sophomore will be allowed to remain in school, as well as his status with the team next season. BYU’s honor code also requires students to be honest; abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse; and attend church regularly.

So… when asked, point-blank, if they’ve had premarital sex since entering BYU, all of Brandon’s teammates can honestly say that they haven’t? And can university administrators honestly say that this wasn’t a sign from God:

In their first game without Davies on Wednesday, the Cougars lost 82-64 to New Mexico.

50 replies on “Star College Athlete Admits Having Premarital Sex…”

  2. I don’t know about all of his teammates, but I know quite a few Mormons who honestly have not ever had sex, or did not until they were married. I feel really sorry for them.

  4. Oh, those silly Mormons. A Mormon friend told me that he & his fiancee actually moved their wedding up 3 months so they could have sex sooner — they didn’t think they could hold back that long. The parents knew the reason, and were fine with it.

  5. I think this school’s honor code is ridiculous and horrible, like something out of the middle ages, however…the people attending the school knew what they were getting into when they signed up.

    I also admit I have no small amount of admiration for an institution that stands up for its beliefs even if those beliefs cost them wins in the rabid world of college sports. If more schools had these same standards for their student athletes when it comes to academics and criminal acts our education system would be vastly improved.

    But the no sex stuff? Yeah, shit is nuts.

  7. @ 5 this isn’t the first time it’s happened, either. A couple years ago, BYU expelled its star running back and his girlfriend, a starter on the women’s basketball team.

    And yeah, the BYU route of “Holding students accountable to an honor code they signed up for” seems vastly preferrable to the more usual “Recruit players with no concern for their academic ability or moral character and then bend over backwards to hide the fact that some have neither.”

  8. Apparently he addressed his teammates and “confessed.” There must have been a whole lot of squirming going on as he was speaking.

  9. holy shit, TEA and COFFEE are verboten? in my former life i attended one of those cwazy cwistian colleges with a similar ‘honor code’ (ours was called a ‘covenant’). sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and even TV were off limits, but we were at least allowed coffee and tea. sheesh.

  10. Enh, he went to BYU, and he knew their honor code when he joined the basketball team. Not to say it’s not silly, but he made his own bed.

  11. I wish this surprised me…but this is BYU. We know some people who have a huge Mormon family. Their kids all marry by 19 or 20, and usually marry within a few months of meeting their fiancee. I’ve never seen such an unrelenting culture of conformity. They have this whole system in place in case one of the kids appears to be going off the rails (growing a spine, asking questions, etc.) where they are shunted off to university early, anything to avoid the outright rebellion. Fundamentalist religions suck.

  12. What #12 said. If he’s going to take their scholarship, he has to play by their rules, as silly as those rules may seem.

  17. If kids can have sex without getting married, they’re way less likely to get married at twenty. And marriage to another Mormon followed by immediate breeding is the surest way to ensure lifetime membership in the 10%-of-your-income-forever-club that is the Church of LDS.

  18. I came her to say what @5 said. And also, I hope those poor kids don’t get married to save that guy’s spot on a stupid sports team.

  19. What’s up with all this “he made his bed” stuff? Doesn’t this kid get some credit for telling the truth? He could have lied. How many of them do? The university probably prefers it. I mean, are they spying on the students, bugging their beds? No. So the kids are encouraged to lie, lie, lie, and deny, deny, deny. Consider this: how many of those basketball players don’t consider groping, rubbing, fingering, hand jobs, blow jobs… to be sex? I’ll bet more than a few.

    And so they learn to lie to the administration, and worse, to lie to themselves. No wonder so many fundamentalists are such terrible, terrible hypocrites. It’s a dysfunction that’s built into their morality code, which is profoundly anti-human and unrealistic.

    Another thing — I will never understand what business anything calling itself a “university” has in being bound to only one faith. A university is supposed to be a microcosm of the wider world; note the root word, “universe”. How does monofaith fulfill that definition? All universities should provide multifaith understandings of spiritual pursuits.

    Finally, this does not compare to having an honour code for academics. A university’s central role is academic; of course there should be rules about that. But sexuality? No way. This “university” is confusing itself with a church. And a church — a single, monofaith church — has no business calling itself a university.

    My two cents.

  21. I hate BYU because every time they’re on tv their representatives are so holier-than-thou I want to throw things at them. So this is absolutely hilarious and I can’t wait to see them LOSE in the NCAA playoffs because they forgot their purpose as a university is to teach and to broaden the mind; not to constrain and mould their “students” into good little Mormons.

  22. I worked with a Mormon guy who drank hot chocolate and Mt Dew every day. When I confronted him about it he started crying and telling me it wasn’t the same as drinking coffee. It was actually very awkward….yeah….
    Side note: we were partners on the ambulance, and he was actually one of the least educated people I have ever met. He put so many patients in immediate danger that I got him fired. Nice as Hell, though. Is this normal for the Mormon culture? I thought most of them were very smart and well educated.

  25. Seriously, I spent a week at BYU with the eastern European women of the BYU track team. This is no joke, these girls I was staying with had to follow Mormon rule, or they would be kicked off the team, and out of the school. And since they were on school visas, that means that they would be deported. And to make matters worse, their mormon roomates would spend all their time trying to catch these girls drinking, or kissing their boyfriends, etc. The one American girl on the team went to visit her dad in California, the mom in NYC called looking for her, she was half-way expelled by her roomate and BYU when she returned. There were hearings on whether or not she was actually with her father, not with a boy. These people really are as bat-shit as they seem.

  28. I wouldn’t call it refreshing, but it’s consequential. At least they stick to all parts of their crazy honor code and not just to the anti gay ones. Fine by me.

  29. As stupid as I think their honor code is, I do respect the integrity of the school for actually following through. They had a legitimate shot at being a one seed in the national tournament and winning the whole thing. Without this kid, they’re done- no chance, whatsoever. How Cam Newton remained eligible at Auburn, I’ll never understand.

  31. RE: all the people asking about not drinking tea and coffee:

    The mormon bible says something about abstaining from beverages with mind-altering chemicals in them and specifically tells them they can’t have tea and coffee.

    Most mormons make up for that by drinking shit-loads of mountain dew. I don’t know why mountain dew is the bev of choice, but where you see mormons, there’s bound to be a lot of mountain dew laying around.

    And on another note, religions are idiotic.

  33. I’m convinced the Mormon religion was the result of a dare between Joseph Smith and Brigham Young:

    Joe: So who gives me the new book?

    B-Money: Angel. It should be an angel. All that shit came from angels in the bible.

    Joe: Yeah, but… people living on the moon? Jesus teleporting to North America, then preaching to an imaginary civilization? What kind of angel would bring that?

    B-Money: A stupid angel.

    Joe: A complete moron.

    B-Money: I got it! The Moron Angel!

    Joe: Nah, too obvious. The Angel Moroni. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moron…).

    And thus a religion was born.

  34. But Mountain Dew is full of caffeine! You see? “It’s not mind-altering if it’s not coffee or tea”. “It’s not sex if it’s not intercourse”.

    They’re being taught to lie to themselves. The hypocrisy is idiotic. I can’t support this “honour code” at all. There’s no honour in it.

  35. does BYU still require pre-approval for facial hair? i remember hearing (more than once) years ago that guys had to get facial hair permits. was/is this true, or am i just a big sucker for believing it?

  36. ok, here it is. from the dress and grooming code on the byu website. shoulda googled first, duh:

    Men —A clean and well‐cared‐for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, revealing, or form fitting. Shorts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles or colors, and trimmed above the collar leaving the ear uncovered. Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or on to the cheek. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth. Men are expected to be clean shaven; beards are not acceptable. Earrings and other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

    Women —A clean and well‐cared‐for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, strapless, backless, or revealing; has slits above the knee; or is form fitting. Dresses, skirts, and shorts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extremes in styles and colors. Excessive ear piercing (more than one per ear) and all other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

  40. The Honor code also forbids sleeveless shirts, therefore the BYU mens basketball uniforms are prima facie a violation of the honor code, though ironically Davies was one of the only BYU players to wear a t-shirt underneath the uniform tank top.

  44. What I want to know, is how they expect a whole college’s worth of students to survive a degree without coffee. I have one friend who does it, and I don’t quite know how she survives…

  45. I find it sad when people with strong beliefs belittle other people for maintaining – wait for it – strong beliefs…

  46. According to my man-whore friend from Vegas, the Utah girls who go to Nevada to party are the most fun. I can’t say how many are from BYU, but apparently quite a few of them forget their honor code/Mormon ethics/similar inhibitions when they’re a state away.

    … Just sayin’.

  47. Chastity does not mean no sex! Married christan people, for exemple, are suppose to be chaste. Chastity means, basically, no cheating.

  48. Stories like these make me happy to be a pot-smoking, coffee/booze-slamming atheist.

    Let’s find us some Mormon porn. Ya know it’s out there somewhere. Probably classified as a “marital aid” for straight, white, middle class Mormon couples. And it’s all missionary. KINKY!

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