On January 21, 2015, Dominic P. DeMarco submitted a letter to the Chairman of the Board of Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. outlining his concerns with the Board's decision on January 19, 2015, to (i) create a special committee that has the full authority to take all actions and make all decisions that the full Board would be empowered to take or make; and (ii) exclude DeMarco, and DeMarco alone, from this Committee. The letter asserted that the formation of such a committee is premised upon an alleged conflict of interest between Stadium Capital Management, LLC and other non-management stockholders that is non-existent.

It further stated that the Board ignored the potential conflicts of other directors, and deliberately crafted the committee in an overly broad manner to effectively exclude DeMarco from all Board business.