It's Almost Kickoff!!

Well Triad Trojans, you'd have to have been living in Bin Laden's cave since June to NOT know what has happened to the Trojan football program via the NCAA Committee Of Infractions (the COI, or more commonly referred to as the "Committee of Idiots"). No bowl games for 2 years, loss of 30 scholarships over 3 years, 4 years probation, open season on any Junior or Senior, who can leave the Trojans at anytime. It was a bloodbath of biblical proportions, especially considering how little if anything USC, its coaching staff, administration, and boosters were involved in the Reggie Bush scandal. That was what so shocking, the amount of carnage leveled at a program in which the allegations didn't center around the football doing anything that was giving them a competitive advantage on the field. Alabama, which a few years ago was caught having coaches paying for players, having players paid, were punishes less than the Trojans. The "lynchpin" of the NCAA case was so flimsy as to be disconcerting as to the level of incompetence the COI has in its members. Here are a great summary of the failing of the NCAA findings:

NCAA Missteps on McNair

USC filed it appeal to some of the sanctions against the program, and considering the NCAA not following its own protocal by allowing USC to sit in on the Lloyd Lake interview, which is granted by the NCAA bylaws, and also due to the very flimsy case it has connecting USC to Lloyd Lake via running backs coach Todd McNair, if the NCAA has any credibility, it will halve the sanctions against the Trojans. Time will tell.