BYU/St. Mary's

[Larks]

BYU Students Earned The Vaunted "Crowd Technical Foul" Last Night

Video is there

[SCalScoreKeeper]

That is absolutely disgraceful! If I am a BYU administrator the entire student section is abolished for 5 home games to send a message unless the culprit comes forward.If the culprit comes forward he/she needs to be banned for the rest of the season and quite possibly expelled.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

That is absolutely disgraceful! If I am a BYU administrator the entire student section is abolished for 5 home games to send a message unless the culprit comes forward.If the culprit comes forward he/she needs to be banned for the rest of the season and quite possibly expelled.

No, they are into banning players from teams because they had sexual intercourse with their girlfriend. They have bigger fish to fry.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

No, they are into banning players from teams because they had sexual intercourse with their girlfriend. They have bigger fish to fry.

Peace

Or because they drank a cup of coffee.

[Kelvin green]

Be careful where this thread goes. I am not a BYU fan and many of their fans are nuts but dont attack beliefs.

You may not like hem but dont need to ridicule or make fun of them as that directly does attack some of us on the board

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Kelvin green

Be careful where this thread goes. I am not a BYU fan and many of their fans are nuts but dont attack beliefs.

You may not like hem but dont need to ridicule or make fun of them as that directly does attack some of us on the board

Don't be so sensitive. I am not attacking beliefs, but their policy. There are other religious institutions that hold another set of beliefs and they have not been known to suspend players for religious violations that other institutions seem to never penalize players for. That also being said BYU has been accused to be selective as to who they penalize. ESPN did a story on this last season and had many former players comment on the selectivity of those policy actions. This would be no different if another religious of another faith getting the same crap. The problem is maybe maybe there are some putting too much responsibility for their beliefs on one institution.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Don't be so sensitive. I am not attacking beliefs, but their policy. There are other religious institutions that hold another set of beliefs and they have not been known to suspend players for religious violations that other institutions seem to never penalize players for. That also being said BYU has been accused to be selective as to who they penalize. ESPN did a story on this last season and had many former players comment on the selectivity of those policy actions. This would be no different if another religious of another faith getting the same crap. The problem is maybe maybe there are some putting too much responsibility for their beliefs on one institution.

Peace

I'm with Rut here -- BYU has been hypocritical and selective on applying penalties for those beliefs and it's the institution I'm mocking, not the beliefs. I'm happy to let people have their beliefs and their rules, but then those rules should be applied across the board, not when they want to use them as an excuse to get rid of an "undesirable" player.

[Adam]

Their policy is based on the conviction of their beliefs; so you'd feel better if they weren't so strict with their beliefs?

You can disagree with it, and you certainly have the right to ridicule it, but I think it's silly to do so. As a Hawkeye fan, I remember the Pierre Pierce debacle, so I found BYU's stance refreshing, even if I thought it was a bit heavy handed.

They not only have the right to enforce their policy, they have the right to consider whatever mitigating circumstances they choose to allow. Some expose by ESPN doesn't change that.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

That is absolutely disgraceful! If I am a BYU administrator the entire student section is abolished for 5 home games to send a message unless the culprit comes forward.If the culprit comes forward he/she needs to be banned for the rest of the season and quite possibly expelled.

I watched the game--there wasn't a culprit. It looked like a scene out of a prison riot, with the amount of materials being thrown. Most didn't reach the court.