Yesterday a California appellate court ruled that disgraced
former assistant USC football coach, Todd McNair, "made a
sufficiently convincing showing that the NCAA recklessly
disregarded the truth." This is not the first time that a court has
ruled that the NCAA's investigations are flawed, but it is
certainly a clarion call that the NCAA needs a new investigative
system. Ironically, just such a system was suggested to the NCAA in
1991 by a committee, which included a retired Chief Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court, formed by the NCAA to study this problem. To
date the NCAA has ignored the recommendation of its own committee
to have retired judges preside over hearings on major NCAA
infractions. That needs to change before more reputations are
ruined by NCAA incompetence and corrupt procedures.
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