Oct 8, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of the Southern California Trojans logo midfield before the NCAA football game against the Washington Huskies at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

The Todd McNair case will get a new judge after the NCAA’s successful motion, but is it a true victory? Plus our daily round up USC football news from the web.

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First Take… Congratulations to the NCAA. You’ve won. Sort of. Maybe.

As reported by the LA Times Tuesday, Judge Frederick Shaller is being reassigned and a new judge will now oversee Todd McNair’s defamation case against the NCAA. This comes on the back of the NCAA’s request to have Shaller removed because of his ties to USC as an alumnus of the university and the perception of bias that might cause.

But make no mistake, as much of a win for the NCAA as this might seem in a legal sense, it’s not much of a victory.

It wasn’t the NCAA’s argument about media and internet message boards drumming up hate for the NCAA in the Los Angeles area that saw Shaller removed. Rather it was a technicality — because the 2nd District Court of Appeals struck down a small portion of Shaller’s initial ruling (not the part where he stated that the Committee on Infractions acted maliciously towards McNair), the judge’s continued participation could be challenged without good cause.

That means the NCAA has successfully stalled the case a bit longer and will now throw themselves at the mercy of a new judge.

Of course that also means that there can be no complaining about the USC ties of the new judge, should he come to the same conclusion that Shaller did when he rejected the NCAA’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.

McNair, and the USC fans hanging on every revelation as proof of NCAA misconduct, have waited a long time for this case to proceed. It’s still going, don’t worry.

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