How much does BYU love its student body?

Not nearly as much as you would think.

I provide in the following text an example of how BYU shortchanges its students.

This summer, I signed up for a basketball class, because I had to make sure I was a full-time student (6 credits). The half credit class is scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-5:50 p.m. On most days, we end up getting kicked out of the gym at 5:45, however. Why, you ask? So that they can set up for aerobics that starts at 6.

Am I missing something here? Are we hooligans in the gym, getting kicked out because we are in the way? NO. I daresay you would NEVER see a professor kicked out of a lecture hall during a scheduled class in order to set up for some event coming up. Seriously, what the hell. I am beyond frustrated with this. Never mind we are students. Never mind we are PAYING to play basketball for an hour and fifty minutes. Never mind all that. What's important, apparently, is that aerobics starts at 6:00 sharp (I mean, could they move it to start at 6:10? NO WAY. That would be unbelievably rude.).

Not to mention all day high school tournaments that take place regularly in the summer (as well as sports camps) and leave the PAYING student no place to play. Again... am I missing something? Have they forgotten we actually PAY MONEY to go to this school?

I forget sometimes how great this school is. Maybe I forget due to circumstances created by the stupidity of the scheduling committee. It reminds me of when people end their testimonies in church with "in the name of THY son..." Seriously. Think about it for two seconds.

And no, I don't think I'm asking for too much. Just fairness.

LBJ's "Decision"

That is respectable... as long as you consider what the real story is here.

Every basketball player desires three things:
1 - A championship team (and a ring)
2 - $$$
3 - A Legacy

It seems like LBJ sacrificed 2 and 3 to get 1. Seems like quite the tradeoff. I don't think it's worth it either. For the rest of his career, he is going to be known as the guy who said in the summer of '10 in front of a live audience (which was WAY too overhyped from Mr. Bigshot who claims he will be equal with D-Wade and Bosh, but will soon prove that he is unable of doing that), "Hey guess what? I am not MJ. I can't win 6 titles. In fact, I can't win 1 measly title by myself. I consent the fact that I will always be just a good solid player, nothing more." I mean, come on, look how many rings Robert Horry won. Who cares?

To me, it's NOT respectable. If I were a Cavs fan, I would have ripped my arm off if it were to give me a chance to beat him over the head with it.

Not to say we haven't been equally damaged by this offseason. I fear in a couple more years D-Will's fate will be on the line too. Talk about a sucky summer.

Frisbee: A "Real" Sport?

I am constantly dumfounded by the number of frisbee jocks I find during my intramural games. It truly is shocking to see guys who actually participate in frisbee because it's "their" sport. As in they grew up playing ultimate frisbee and worked at excelling in this.

Last night, I had a game on a ward team. I am in no way, shape, or form, good at frisbee. I just like to run around. I thought this was how everyone approached the game. I was wrong.

Two of our teammates are girls - the other team (all guys) didn't care. More than once did I see a male player on the other team hotly contest a frisbee intended to be caught by one of our girls. I understand (MAYBE!) shoving a girl out of the way when they are beating you. However, this was happening when the score was an absurd 10-2 for the other team or so. In other words, we were getting ROASTED, and these guys were STILL throwing our girls out of the way.

Early on in the match, a guy on their team called a foul on one of our guys for knocking the frisbee out of his hands when they both went for it in the air. The foul cost us a point, because it happened right next to our goal. THIS is the crux of my argument. This frisbee "jock" was tapped on the arm by our guy (who hotly contested the call), so he called a foul. Frisbee = Pansy sport for guys who can't handle real sports. Honestly, why do you think ESPN never says a word about it? Because they don't consider it a real sport. Don't believe me? It's not like ESPN is choosy about what sports they DO show - consider, for example, the fact that you can go on to ESPN.com and find stories and links to bass fishing, the WNBA, and Poker, for crying out loud. But frisbee? Nowhere to be found.

The moral of my rant is that everyone who takes frisbee seriously should get their heads examined. Seriously. By a Medical Doctor.