BEWARE THE HONOR CODE

Before I blow your mind, I give you the facts: 11 - 2. 11 - 2. 10. - 3. 11 - 2. BYU's Football record in the 2006 - 2009 seasons respectively. Last season, 7 - 6. The 2010 - 2011 BYU Basketball team coming off the weekend win over SDSU: 27 - 2, highest ranking in school history, likely possess colleges' offensive player of the year. Last night, they were embarrassed for a second time by New Mexico in what's easily their worst loss of the season thus far, and can expect to fall from their potential tournament one seed perch. The common denominator? Last April BYU dismissed their all time leading rusher Harvey Unga. Late Tuesday BYU dismissed Brandon Davies, the teams leading rebounder and third leading scorer. Both men engaged in premarital sex, thus breaking the honor code. If bumping uglies is all it takes to bring BYU and its sports teams to their knees then its simple -- are we not looking at the real life Pleasantville. In a picture perfect, regulated town (i.e. BYU's Provo campus), with a distinct set of rules (i.e. honor code), Reese Witherspoon's provocativeness (i.e. sexual frustrations of the two athletes above) leads to everything in town falling apart including the basketball team not being able to hit a jumper to save their life. The parallels I'm sure run deeper, but I haven't seen that movie in a loooooong time and I have no interest in making it my next rental. I'm always one for the benefits of sex but if this the kind of ramifications it's going to have on the Mormon faithful every time it happens then perhaps it is better that it's outlawed. Either way, there's no denying the uncanny similarities and now I am interested to see if "Breaking the honor code," becomes as catchy as "Taking my talent's to South Beach" when referring to doing the dirty, or other various dirties.