The NCAA's Secretive Punishing Committee: Who Was on It for USC?

Here is a non-shocker for the astute USC fan.

The committee that the NCAA put together to punish USC would have been outright dismissed in the American legal system. I say that as an aspiring expert in the field.

Somehow, the organization was able to put together a pseudo-equality inspired set of rules that demand two women to be on the 10-member committee. They also require three public servants, according to Sports Illustrated.

The biggest problem that people could, and should have with the committee is that the makeup of the members cannot be described as "unbiased experts." Or even as ignorant simpletons, which seems to be what the American legal system seeks out through jury duty.

These people were either biased experts, or unbiased qualifiers. Case and point in the fact that Missy Conboy, former athletic director at Notre Dame and complete football idiot (she has surprisingly never played a down in her life) was on the committee.

They actually put a Notre Dame affiliate on the committee that investigated USC? That sounds borderline fair. Oh wait, Notre Dame and USC are brutal enemies? Hmmm...

I do not believe that Conboy would ever be capable of fairly evaluating USC's circumstances. That's like putting George W. Bush on a committee to investigate Barack Obama's presidency. I guarantee that alignment won't turn up fair or unbiased evaluations.

But for some reason, everyone is afraid to question the authority of the NCAA.

It's a pseudo-power. They aren't a real, authoritative organization. If they were, or if they were even close to efficiently managed, glaring problems like this would not be overlooked.

In the American legal system, that type of bias from an evaluator would get them disqualified from serving on a jury. Why wouldn't it for the NCAA?

The rest of the committee was made up of college professors and even some legal personnel, but there is the bogus concept that adding public servants/women somehow makes the committee less biased.

USC fans need to be asking serious questions about these people who unleashed a shockingly harsh firestorm upon their athletic program. Were their decisions based upon known concepts of justice and precedent?

Or were they, for lack of a better word, empowered crazies with an alternate agenda?

Why have they gotten away for so long without having to make public statements and explanations as individuals?

With great power should come great responsibility, and so far these people have skirted the public eye. Perhaps they should sit on the grill for awhile and answer some questions.