The NCAA passes on Auburn

Because outside of USC fans, the rest of the world believes we did something horribly bad. All my friends remain convinced that USC committed the worst violations since SMU was given the death penalty. These are intelligent people who could understand the NCAA report on USC if they bothered to glance at it. But they don’t. No one does. USC is guilty. Forever. Ask anyone who’s not a Trojan, they’ll tell you. Ask any ESPN commentator or writer, they’ll tell you. That damn cheater Pete Carroll and that corrupt USC program and Reggie Bush was such a criminal and . . . . etc.

I don’t get it. I never will. We (USC) did practically nothing wrong as an institution, as a football staff, as an athletic department, as a booster community, as a team of players. What happened was so minor compared to Ohio State and Auburn and Oregon . . . at MOST, USC deserved a little wrist slap.

It’s a horrible miscarriage of justice. If this were the real world in a courtroom situation, the appellate court would overturn the lower court decision in a heartbeat.

Yet there’s no justice, it’s the NCAA. USC is guilty, damn it – because the NCAA says so! Auburn is innocent, damn it – because the NCAA says so! Ohio State – well, boys will be boys so give them a good talking to and they won’t do it again, but gosh golly in the big picture Ohio State didn’t really do much of anything wrong – because the NCAA says so!

As criticized as our nation’s legal system is, the twisted lynch mob decision made by those a**holes on the NCAA COI would never survive the appeal in our court system. But there is no court system for the NCAA. The NCAA took the nation’s jealousy against USC’s amazingly successful football program and used it to try us and hang us in the court of public opinion – with no recourse for finding real justice.

Pete Carroll was clean, the NCAA said so. Our football program was clean – the NCAA said so. Without any evidence, the NCAA locked us up to do a few years of hard, hard time and the media calls it justice.

With plenty of evidence against Ohio State and Auburn implicating coaches, players, boosters, and the educational institutions in the commitment of serious violations with corrupt intentions of covering the violations up, the NCAA lets Auburn off the hook and might let Ohio State get away with a wrist slap.

As a legal professional, this miscarriage of justice just makes me crazy. The jaywalker got 25 years, no parole. The two drunken hit and run drivers got community service. That’s f**king NCAA justice.