Armageddon has come to BYU basketball. Armageddon Light. OK, so it’s not Armageddon at all. But it is explosive and it is serious and it is embarrassing, and, taken to the extreme, it raises suspicions about the future of sports at the LDS Church-owned school.
There are, indeed, dark clouds of smoke wafting out of the Marriott Center today, wafting out of the tailpipe of a Volkswagen Jetta driven by a player who might not have properly paid for it, receiving it instead from an overly friendly booster.
There are no hookers involved here, no paying a player $100,000 via a shoe company or a coach to come to the school, no FBI investigation for fraud or violating federal laws.