BYU Swim Camp - No racers (briefs) allowed!

Another thought accured to me about this brief thing at BYU. How is it that before jammers where invented did BYU have any boy swimmers at their camps. Did they have to wear the big board shorts? No - they allowed briefs in years past, but some how they have become dress code breakers.....

I wonder if they are making the girls wear correctly sized swim suits or if they will be able to wear them about 4 sizes too small like the teen girls seem to do at our club. Maybe the male brief ban is in response to that.

I don't know why anyone would object to briefs on the basis that they are not "modest". Is BYU a "conservative" Bible Belt institution? :lolup: As I've mentioned before, jammers are actually MORE revealing than briefs. Jammers (and tech suits) are very tight fitting and I've always noticed that they always have that "lump between the legs" appearance. :bolt: Dolphin 2

BYU is a Mormon Institutuion.....supposed to be very modest.....

It's a dress code thing for everyone. Up until this last year, I think they made everyone wear BYU issue swim-trunks, and wouldn't even allow people with board shorts until the last five years. Evidently the 2" of fabric somehow spells the difference between moral depravity and modesty. I don't get it. The BYU swim team still wears briefs (saw them this morning with them on). More of BYU's "theocratic" red-tape, I guess. It's okay for the swim team, but the rest of the world just can't be trusted to wear them. Hm.. the BYU football players I was in the hot tub with years ago had on trunks.

I've been giggling about this all morning! Many of the young swimmers from my pool are attending the BYU swim camps starting this week. One of the young guys who always wears brief (racer) style swim suits told me that he isn't allowed to where them at the camp. I pulled up the info on the camp and the info packet does say "no Speedos or bikini briefs are allowed for male participants". I'm sorry, but jammers are no less revealing than briefs! If anything they are more so - in my opinion. I can understand a modest dress code at BYU, but swimmers are so use to seeing each other in these types of suits. I would love to know the thinking behind this dress code? :lmao: It's a dress code thing for everyone. Up until this last year, I think they made everyone wear BYU issue swim-trunks, and wouldn't even allow people with board shorts until the last five years. Evidently the 2" of fabric somehow spells the difference between moral depravity and modesty. I don't get it. The BYU swim team still wears briefs (saw them this morning with them on). More of BYU's "theocratic" red-tape, I guess. It's okay for the swim team, but the rest of the world just can't be trusted to wear them.

It's a dress code thing for everyone. Up until this last year, I think they made everyone wear BYU issue swim-trunks, and wouldn't even allow people with board shorts until the last five years. Evidently the 2" of fabric somehow spells the difference between moral depravity and modesty. I don't get it. The BYU swim team still wears briefs (saw them this morning with them on). More of BYU's "theocratic" red-tape, I guess. It's okay for the swim team, but the rest of the world just can't be trusted to wear them. Hey BYU -Amateur It's really good news to hear that the swim team still wears those good ole briefs!!! As the old saying goes: "Great minds think alike" and it looks like the BYU Swimming Dept. and I may have something in common afterall!!! :groovy: I hope they change the rules to allow outsiders to wear 'em also. Dolphin 2

I've been giggling about this all morning! Many of the young swimmers from my pool are attending the BYU swim camps starting this week. One of the young guys who always wears brief (racer) style swim suits told me that he isn't allowed to where them at the camp. I pulled up the info on the camp and the info packet does say "no Speedos or bikini briefs are allowed for male participants". I'm sorry, but jammers are no less revealing than briefs! If anything they are more so - in my opinion. I can understand a modest dress code at BYU, but swimmers are so use to seeing each other in these types of suits. I would love to know the thinking behind this dress code? :lmao: Dennis, You have been living and swimming in Utah for at least 20 plus years. Are you telling me you still don't understand the Mormon culture? As a former BYU swimmer, I will admit there are some inconsistencies with the dress code (swimmers were the only ones allowed to wear non-approved speedos rather than "black beauties" as they were called back in the day). The idea is more coverage is generally more modest and is generally preferred. BYU is a private university and has every right to make any regulations it wants and your swimmers have the right to choose the closer, more convenient, University of Utah. I suspect their parents are choosing a swim camp based partly on environment otherwise they would send them to University of Texas or other high power program.

Wish I could make Portland:doh: I'm already traveling too much this summer and Portland will break the bank. Kurt I hope you don't think I'm saying BYU policy is wrong or should be changed. I think the people at BYU have every right to make their rules as they see fit. I'm just amused at how the line between what is considered modest and what causes sinful thoughts can be so grey and changeable. Growing up in an LDS family I do understand the LDS point of view. I'm just truely amazed that BYU even has a swim team and holds camps. There is just too much temptation with all those skin tight suits walking and swimming around. I'm sure that there is great deal more sinning going on at other universities and swim camps... beware of the brief (racer) swim suit!!! It is all down hill from there. Good luck in Portland Kurt!!!

dolphin 2 - ironically your insistence on imposing your morality on BYU really isn't any different than them imposing their morality on people who voluntarily attend their private camps. Maybe you and BYU can just accept each other and tolerate differences.