When BYU retired Luke Staley’s No. 6 in September, 2017, the greatest running back the school has ever seen, a first-team All-American and Doak Walker Award winner, was thrilled.
“This is something that I never imagined,” he said back then. “It’s a total honor for me.”
Staley has had his fill of the way BYU enforces its Honor Code, the way it takes religion and hammers students over the head with it, creating an environment of fear for those who are less-than perfect in following the code.
“That’s not what religion should be,” he says. “It’s not what it should do.