'In 2011, McMahon told WQAM radio in not so many words that he was asked after the 1981 season to leave the university. The New York Times blog "The Fifth Down" discovered the interview and transcribed some of the statements McMahon made shortly after Brandon Davies had been cut from BYU's basketball team.

"They said they had just been informed that I was doing some things. I said, Look, I’ve been here five years, man. You follow me around, you stake out my apartment. You don’t know what I’m doing? C’mon. They know what’s going on there."'

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/1937/0/10-moments-that-made-BYU-and-NFL-quarterback-Jim-McMahon-famous-2-and-infamous.html