Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Men Will Be Boys
The most perplexing thing to me about athletes that attend BYU is that they feel they are exempt from adhering to the honor code and following other guidelines laid out. I attest this to the cushy lifestyle they have acquired since being an athlete in high school. All the athletes in my high school were babied and simply had to show up to get a good grade while others actually studied. I'm sure my experience wasn't far from everybody else's, and I don' t think that college is any different. BYU football Coach Bronco Mendenhall announced yesterday that lineman Matangi Tonga has been indefinitely suspended from the team for violating team rules. The reasons were undisclosed, which I feel is just fine. Just a little over a month ago, BYU basketball Coach Dave Rose suspended Rashaun Broadus for an alleged DUI. These are just a couple of instances in the recent. We all have heard the "Boys will be boys" saying. Well, apparently men will be boys too, and BYU won't tolerate it. If you want to be a boy, just go to the U where you can do anything and just get a few hours of community service thrown at you with no suspension (refer to sexual harassment charges against QB Brett Ratliff). More so than his value to the team, Matangi Tonga also has a fun name to say, which is highly important in sports. So Matangi Tonga, get your act together so you can continue to play with Manase Tonga, Fui Vakapuna, Temana Paongo, Kalama Kaluhiokalani, and Russell Tialevea. Talk about an exercise in Polynesian phonetics.
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'Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you might be in utah'. It's not just a clever saying on a shot glass at the airport gift shop, it's an actual way of life. I think it's hysterical when athletes move to Utah with you're basic 'damn the man, I can do what ever the hell I want' attitude. What you really get is a young spoiled brat who's been babbied thier whole life because they can catch a ball, run or hit a ball over a net. Big accomplishment i'm sure in the grand scheme of things. What they need to do is consider why, if they are going to have that mentality in the first place, do they even step foot on Utah soil? It's a question of the ages I guess. What they need to do is grow up, keep it in thier pants, quit complaining and just play the friggin game that got them here.
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