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Admissions: A New Hurdle for BYU Athletics?

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Recent rumors indicate that the admissions office is the latest institutional hurdle for recruiting student athletes to BYU.

Honor code woes have long haunted Cougar Nation. When the honor code isn’t a deterring recruits that are interested in a college experience that doesn’t include celibacy and stone-cold sobriety, it is suspending and expelling young adults who have the audacity to err, sometimes in things that are not criminal acts.

Countless pages have been written in the online Cougarnacle regarding the honor code’s effect on BYU athletics and the rightness or wrongness of those who land in the HCO’s crosshairs.