Friday, February 25, 2011

Twelve-member committee will decide punishment for Vols

The 12-member panel of the NCAA Committee on Infractions features a lawyer from Malibu, Calif., a former George W. Bush-appointed U.S. attorney, two conference commissioners, one of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols' court-appointed attorneys, two former standout women's basketball players, four law professors and only one person with direct SEC ties.

Hundreds of years of experience in law and athletic administration will be on the other side of the table when UT administrators, men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl, the school's team of lawyers and others will present their case on June 10 and 11. Though UT desires it, a summary disposition was all but ruled out by NCAA Vice President of Enforcement Julie Roe Lach in a letter to UT chancellor Jimmy Cheek.

The people who will peruse those documents with scrupulous, diverse and experienced eyes:

Britton Banowsky Commissioner, Conference USA

John S. Black: Senior Partner at Polsinelli and Shughart

Missy Conboy: Senior Deputy Director of Athletics, Notre Dame

Roscoe C. Howard Jr.: Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP

Eleanor Myers: Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law

James O'Fallon: Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon School of Law

Gregory Sankey: Associate Commissioner, SEC

Dennis Thomas: Commissioner, Mid-Eastern Conference

Rodney Uphoff: Professor of Law, University of Missouri

Julie Roe Lach: Vice President of Enforcement, NCAA

Shep Cooper: Director of the Committee on Infractions, NCAA

Brian P Halloran: Halloran Law Office

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