McKay: LSU is the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case

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All week long I've been watching two things without wanting to.

The fallout from the Lindsay Clancy trial and this ridiculous LSU-SEC saga.

And last night when I heard some inside word on what's actually going on with the SEC thing, it finally struck me that these two things are actually the same story playing out in different venues.

LSU is that one juror who insisted she was guilty. And LSU is spending a whole week being berated by hyperemotional, hysterical people making outlandish accusations, threats and demands despite not actually doing anything wrong.

LSU is "arrogant" and refuses to respect the feelings of the rest of the group, and must be thrown off the jury. So the group engages people who talk for a living, and in particular bald old men who shamelessly toe the party line, to make fiery statements about punishing the juror for holding to his position.

And then there's the army of people on social media, equally hysterical, who screech about the juror while inventing theories which don't actually hold up to scrutiny.

People on the jury who came to the deliberations with a conventional view then get swept along in the hysteria, taking a position they previously would have thought was unwise, but afraid to buck the mob.

Everyone's guns are trained on that one juror. They don't like him.

But they can't prove anything he did which is actually deserving of their scorn and threats.

Eventually the hysteria blows over. But not before damage is done. Trust is lost. Hard feelings remain.

Does the truth will out? Hard to say. Moments of mass hysteria very rarely lead to clarity.

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