Most of you know that I'm as blue as anybody, but this really saddens me. Although it has to do with a baseball player, in the bigger picture, you can see how it might affect the football program just four days before loi-signing day.

http://www.sltrib.com/collegesports/ci_8149321

cruiser wrote:

Most of you know that I'm as blue as anybody, but this really saddens me. Although it has to do with a baseball player, in the bigger picture, you can see how it might affect the football program just four days before loi-signing day.

http://www.sltrib.com/collegesports/ci_8149321

Ya, I can see how this affects some recruits -- it seperates the wheat from the tares. If a recruit knows that attending Church is a real requirement for BYU, and that is a negative in the mind of a recruit, I'm not sure that recruit should really be coming to BYU in the first place.

I think it illustrates to the recruit that just because you have an athletic scholie, you won't get away with living a marginal honor-code lifestyle.

If anything, this story lets potential LOI signees know exactly what they are getting into, so they can't make the case that they "didn't know better."

Cruiser, normally I would defer to you with regards to all things recruiting -- seeing that you are a former player, have gone through that process (and witnessed it countless times). I want the most incredible physical specimans that BYU can get -- but it doesn't do the program any good if that recruit never makes it onto the field because they can't live by the Honor Code.

OLB wrote:

...it doesn't do the program any good if that recruit never makes it onto the field because they can't live by the Honor Code.

Your response shows that you didn't read the article linked above. You should.

cruiser wrote:

Most of you know that I'm as blue as anybody, but this really saddens me. Although it has to do with a baseball player, in the bigger picture, you can see how it might affect the football program just four days before loi-signing day.

http://www.sltrib.com/collegesports/ci_8149321

How might it affect the football program?
It's a given that the public won't be given all the details here. Certainly he's not surprised, surely it's not just missing a few Sundays right? I just hope this works itself out and nobody gets bitter.

OLB, the BYU spokesman specifically stated that this is not an honor code violation. This is the result of a bishop (and, according to some, the stake president as well) who decided to make an example of an athlete. This kid was a candidate to become an all-American, and evidently he did go to church, just not where his bishop could see him. The fact that this went all the way to the Quorum of the Twelve indicates that there may have been some question about it, perhaps as to the punishment fitting the so-called crime.

Something sounds fishy to me. I know I probably dont know everything about it. But with the story I know this kid didnt deserved to be kicked out of school because the bishop thought he wasnt going to church. Geesh!! What about all the nonmembers who dont attend any church?? What a joke!! Cut the kid some slack!