<p>Now, I always respected those athletes that may not be Mormon and chose to play for BYU because of the lack of temptations they would face at BYU (i.e. drinking, drugs, sleeping around, etc.) that may adversely affect their game. Well, guess there must be some temptations at BYU (or in Provo at least), one of the basketball players has been suspended due to a possible DUI. </p>
My thought is that this particular school sets very specific standards with regard to certain behaviors, and the students are well aware of those standards. I respect both the coach and the school for upholding those standards, despite the “valued” nature of the athlete. You rarely see that these days.</p>
<p>There is alcohol and for that matter drugs, sex, and rock & roll to be found at BYU. It’s a huge school, ~30K students; it would be shocking if there weren’t some misbehavior there. These are, after all, college age American kids. But there is just a LOT less of it per capita at BYU than there is at most any other school. I think that a large majority of the kids there try hard to live up to the rules, but there are always going to be some that for one reason or another fall short</p>
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<p>How can they possibly have alcohol on campus with no greeks? :eek:
This defies one of the favorite CC myths !</p>
<p>^ Gee. Can you imagine a Duke player being suspended and indicted for something they never did? </p>
<p>:eek: (Shhhhhhhhh!!!):eek:</p>
<p>P.S. With the cops in Durham, they don’t need to be suspended by the school for DUI. They’ll probably go directly to jail, depending on where they are from…</p>
<p>Actually mini, there was a Duke student athlete suspended in August for DUI. It did get quite a bit of press!</p>
<p>It is said when you walk the campus at BYU late at night the wind carries some strange sounds. From the women’s dorms you can hear at almost a whisper…“more men”. Over on the mens side a faint “bring em young” fills the trees. </p>
<p>Sorry, Always a joke I’ll remember from a Haiwaii trip from our tour guide as we passed BYU-Haiwaii.</p>
<p>I am not LDS, but we lived in Boise, Idaho for the past 6 years and the population there is VERY mormon. I’ve heard statistics that southern Idaho has a higher percentage of LDS than Salt Lake City; although I’m not sure how accurate that is…I wouldn’t doubt it. </p>
<p>Anyway, my sons went to school with many of those kids. They said about half “lived it” and the other half were LDS because their parents made them (and those kids were total partiers). Still, many of them applied to BYU because it’s a good school and the fact that there <em>might</em> be partying going on there wouldn’t surprise me in the least.</p>
<p>Well, just in the Boise area (called the Treasure Valley) there are about half a million. Most people probably assume there are about 15 thousand people :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Now the rest of Idaho is another story, if you consider the entire state is about 1 million, meaning half the people live just in Boise/Meridian/Nampa/Caldwell.</p>
<p>A bit of History; There has been a Mormon population in southern Idaho for well over 100 years. When Oregon Territory was divided and Oregon was admitted to the Union, non-mormon residents in the Idaho panhandle sought to petition the territorial government in neighboring Washington to annex the panhandle for fear of domination of Idaho Territory by the Mormons in the south.</p>