Friday, March 4, 2011

BYU Basketball National Championship Hopes Dashed by Losing Brandon Davies Due to Honor Code Violation

Like most BYU fans, my euphoria over being ranked the #3 college basketball team in the country was dashed when I learned that the 2nd-best player on the team was kicked off for honor code violations. Two weeks before the NCAA tournament. How could this be? For the first time in history BYU hoops could be contending for a national championship, and now that dream is probably over. Proof: BYU just got killed for the 2nd time by piddly unranked New Mexico.

But there's a very interesting undercurrent to this story: news media all over the country are now talking about the BYU honor code. A week ago, if someone had predicted that the BYU honor code would be a marquee story at all the biggest news agencies in the country -- wow!!

Today, March 4, 2011, I have grabbed headlines and links from a small sampling of these media outlets. And after digesting all of this, it has become clear that everybody in the country is talking about the church standards at BYU--and most of the talk is positive! Although the big news personalities and writers are mystified that a nationally-ranked team would kick off a star player for that reason, their commentary could largely be summed up as "good for BYU". They are praising us. Although the impact on the basketball team is devastating, we probably couldn't have gotten this much positive, high-profile, church-centered publicity in any other way.

In short, a lot of good could come from this. (Though I surely do wish we had our 2nd-best player back.)

Here are some examples of headlines from big-time news agencies:
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