"Bronco has turned the honor code into a strength of the program"

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by jay santos

Would the removal of the Honor Code at BYU change BYU from being the most sober school in the nation? Would BYU all of a sudden turn into a pot smoking hippie school?

Why would the removal of the Honor Code change BYU's football program that dramatically? We'd probably start going after more non-LDS and we might be more successful with that recruiting since they wouldn't have to stress about the possibility of getting booted for a minor mistake.

I don't see how that would change our rating on the morality index (real or perceived) that significantly. We'll still have a ton of RM's and married players and all that.

Don't confuse the universe of all BYU students with the subpopulation of BYU athletes, nor assert that the behavior of both would be equally unaffected by the eradication of the Honor Code.

The existence of the Honor Code is in and of itself a filter that removes athletes that would likely get busted and in the news; with or without an Honor Code. To think that an absence of an Honor Code would not result in an increase in the number of public incidents is folly.