Brandon Davies was kicked off the BYU team for having sex with his girlfriend.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the 6-foot-9 sophomore forward who was dismissed from the team on Tuesday night acknowledged his transgression to BYU officials on Monday.

BYU dismissed Davies a day later for violating the schools Honor Code which forbids students from having premarital sex. The Cougars lost their first game without Davies, falling to New Mexico 82-64 on Wednesday.

Davis was third on the team in scoring at 11.1 points per game and is the teams top rebounder.

The Cougars, led by National Player of the Year frontrunner Jimmer Fredette, were 27-2 with Davies in the lineup and had the inside track to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Davies has been suspended for the remainder of the season, but the newspaper said that his future at the school has yet to be determined.

From time to time I've wondered about the virtues of moving to Utah.

Then I hear stories like these, where prominent institutions in the state are so dominated by certain kinds of moralism (call them LDS or radical Christian or whatever), and I say....well, maybe not.

BYU can do what they wish -- that's what real diversity is about, the ability to choose different approaches. And, having chosen to abide by the BYU rules, Davies clearly shouldn't have a problem with the consequences of his behavior. (And by the press reports at least, he doesn't.)

But I can't imagine going to a school like that. At any age.

Lots of "Christian" schools require their faculty to sign similar kinds of "pledges" or "codes" or "oaths". Yet, notwithstanding my personal evangelical/fundamentalist bent, I can't imagine ever being willing to agree to to such as a condition of long-term employment.

I guess I'm too much of a Gospel guy, and not enough of a Law guy.

"Wade" wrote:

Should've soaked.

Mormon Soaking 

Could they have come up with a less sexy term for it? Also, why not just say they soaked approximately 500 times in rapid succession that night? That would be my defense. Ok 50 times. Ok ok. 5.

"MassPackersFan" wrote: