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Right but that’s not really what’s being called out. We know that players on every program break the rules. But those players are following rules laid out by the coaching staff and administration. If you break them that simply makes you unruly.

The honor code is ostensibly a flow-down from the will of God. Bit of a different sort of mandate. So when you break it and thumb your nose at the heathens up north you’re not just a hypocrite but an apostate, and one who has no problem taking full credit for “living right off the field”. This isn’t just a commentary on the players, it’s understandable that they’d deviate from the path, they have direct temptation to deviate. It’s a commentary on the fanbase who seethes and hollers at the behavior of other fanbases, and looks down their noses at others, when a team they know is mocking their religious standards enjoys success.

If there was any semblance of conviction in the will of God among the ever so overtly pious BYU Fandom then they’d demand standards. After all, it may feel good to ignore the truth. But isn’t there someone important who knows the truth, someone who must be answered to? Someone who can’t be fooled? Plausible deniability in knowledge of the truth is just digging yourself a bigger hole in the eyes of an omniscient intellect. But hey, touchdowns feel good, so we’ll just whistle and look the other way.

When I was at Utah we partied with the byu tennis team in SLC. I was gonna turn their asses in but they brought beer, so it was cool.

One of these days ESPN is going to do a 30 for 30 documentary/expose on the BYU Honor Code…the next day, Russell M. Nelson will issue an edict shutting down all sports at BYU… it’ll happen within our lifetime.