Almost three months after a jury found the NCAA didn’t defame Todd McNair, the legal fight involving the former USC running backs coach isn’t over.
McNair’s attorneys filed their final brief Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court urging Judge Frederick Shaller to declare the one-year “show-cause” penalty levied against McNair by the NCAA infractions committee in 2010 to be invalid under state law.
“A finding that the NCAA’s show cause penalty procedure was (and is) unlawful will serve to help erase that black mark from Mr. McNair’s professional resume and will lessen any lingering effects it has on his ability to resume his NCAA coaching career,” the brief said.