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The Salt Lake Tribune's take on the fight
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http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1982115-155...fullpage=1

And then … BYU gets rolled up in a nasty fight on national television, with lowlights beamed around the world, with reaction about the fight blowing up on social media. Much of it centered on … BYU and Mormons. It's not the kind of exposure for which BYU and its leaders hoped.

It is the kind of exposure that could get BYU football canceled.

Already, that's happened to sports, including football, at other BYU campuses for other reasons. And it could happen in Provo, as well.

Could.

Not saying it will. But there's no doubt that LDS Church leaders are embarrassed right now about what took place at the Miami Beach Bowl. You can walk that to the bank. Some already have their reservations about the church's top school putting so much emphasis on football. This helps not one bit.

A leadership that frowns upon long hair and beards, earrings and tattoos, must be doubly, quadruply, disappointed at senseless violence perpetrated by what it wants to consider representatives of the faith on the field, in front of millions and millions of eyeballs...
12-23-2014 10:28 AM
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