There’s more info coming out on the girlfriend of Brandon Davies, who Sportscasm brilliantly anointed “the Yoko Ono of BYU basketball.” In case you missed it yesterday, Davies was booted from the BYU basketball team for admitting to coitus with his special lady friend, who has now been identified as Arizona State freshman volleyball player Danica Mendevil, according to reports. And yep, she’s a white girl.

Why does this matter? Because this could negate everything anyone said yesterday about BYU simply enforcing its well-documented honor code. I’m not presuming racism here, but…okay, I’m totally presuming racism. There’s anecdotal evidence that the discipline of Davies–one of only three black players on the team–was relatively harsh, not only by college basketball standards, but even by those of the school.

Somebody has to ask the question: were the conservative powers that be in Provo looking to punish a black kid getting sexual attention from a white girl? Don’t tell me that it couldn’t possibly happen, because it does. It could certainly happen in Utah, especially at a school operated and encased by a federalized religion.

But my main takeaway from yesterday does stand: if you want to get stinky, don’t work in a soap factory. Davies still violated his contract with the school, as shoddy as such a pact may have been. Good luck to BYU on ever recruiting another black athlete ever again. And no, I don’t really mean that.

via Frat House Sports.

The third-ranked men’s basketball program at Brigham Young University has dismissed its third-leading scorer from the team after he admitted to having sex with his girlfriend. The school confirmed that sophomore Brandon Davies will sit out the rest of the year–while he watches his team’s potential one-seed in the national tournament slip away–and could be kicked out of school entirely.

Much is being made of the fact that Davies has not been charged with a crime, which is totally beside the point when we’re talking about Mormons.

A source told The Tribune that Davies is “extremely remorseful, heartbroken” but has accepted the punishment doled out by the school.

Wednesday afternoon, the school confirmed that Davies’ dismissal was not due to something that is criminal in nature, but would not acknowledge the specific portion of the honor code that he violated, per school policy.

Among other things, the honor code forbids students from engaging in premarital sex, and admonishes them to “live a chaste and virtuous life.”

BYU’s honor code, conceived by the Mormons’ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is pretty explicit: don’t drink, don’t do drugs (that includes caffeine), don’t lie, don’t break the law, don’t skip church, don’t dress like a d:ckhead, don’t bring guns to campus…

And don’t have sex. But it used to be worse; before 1981, students couldn’t even wear jeans.This is not a school where any sane 18-year-old American would want to play college basketball.

Here’s a pro tip: if you want to have sex with girls in college, don’t go to a college where you can’t have sex with girls. Whether you agree with the policy or not is irrelevant; BYU’s honor code couldn’t be easier to understand, and unlike a lot of honor codes at other schools [coughcoughwestpointcough], they actually enforce theirs. If Davies agreed to live his life by the BYU standard, and he failed to meet that standard, what exactly is unfair about him being disciplined for it?