Ray given a 2-year extension into 2026 and a raise. Interested to read the responses in this thread as I’m not sure how many feel about Ray as an AD.
Ray Tanner Given Extension / Raise
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It's all about Shane. As Shane goes, so goes Tanner. Everything else is chicken crap. This is the SEC. When they say, "It just means more", they are talking about football.
He is 64 right? I guess he wants to work a few more years.
Several of hires are early in their tenure, maybe its a better time in 2 -3 years for a new guy to take over in case future changes are needed to be made.
The only sport that matters is football. If that's going well, the AD is safe.
If that's not going well, he's toast.
If that's not going well, he's toast.
Many of the "football-is-all-that-matters" and win-at-all-cost" crowd scoffed when Tanner hired Beamer, yet Beamer succeeding. If, as many on this board say, football is all that matters, It sounds like Tanner did his job.
Ray is the that turd in the toilet bowl that no matter how many times you flush it won’t go away.
Everyone is banking on him retiring in a few years because of age. He probably won’t though.
Everyone is banking on him retiring in a few years because of age. He probably won’t though.
A 15% raise and removal of the buyout in a year and a half for both sides. Sounds almost like when Spurrier said he was on a 2 or 3 year plan....
The Unflushable Turd....................sounds like a pretty good comic book villain.
For the "football is all that matters" crowd:
I dare you to look a varsity swimmer, golfer, tennis player, soccer player, etc. in the eye and tell them that all the hours of hard work they put into their sport doesn't matter.
He just needs to be gone before the next coaching hire. It appears all the coaches are pretty safe until then anyways. Whatever.
Let's hope we are better at planning than we do with coaches and have an "AD in waiting" list prepared and ready to go!
This is provisionally true. Two years is nothing unless it's terrible. Otherwise, it's somewhere between hopeful and undetermined.
How do D-II, D-III, and NAIA schools do it?
It is relevant. All sports at these levels lose money. Yet the schools sponsor them.
I was also after Year Two of Muschamp. 9-4 with a bowl win over a legacy opponent was reason enough, until it no longer was.
I guess he means it's not relevant to us.
That is true as long as SB continues on the path he's on. SB is certainly safe till 2026. That doesnt mean I have any more confidence in his hires beyond that... in any sport, including football.
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My point is that USC would likely continue to sponsor varsity swimming, golf, tennis, etc. even without the massive ca$h infusion from the SEC. No doubt the extra $$$ enables all sports to compete at a high level as opposed to a low level.
I want all varsity sports USC sponsors to compete well and represent USC well, regardless of whether or not I follow an individual sport. That is the measure of a true Gamecock fan.
The fact that people understand what drives this league, in and of itself, would not make them bad fans. Indifference to overall program performance would qualify them as bad fans.
No doubt that football drives the SEC at this level. But that does not negate any other varsity sport.
On the official UGA web page, they note that baseball has been played as a varsity sport on campus longer than any other.
Well, using football as a reference, that is possibly owed in part to baseball's being around about 45 years longer.
Totally absurd to give him 2 more years. He's already been here too damn long and he should have never been given the job to begin with.
The problem is finding one who gets along with the major booster and the legislature well enough to be able to go to them and ask for funding for the unending new projects and improvements. We have never had an AD that was as good in those respects before Tanner.
That is a huge issue and concern that many on here overlook.
One thing is obvious. They don't care what we think and the 15-20 posters on this board don't carry much weight with the BOT.
Caslon screwed up the favorite because he refused to approve the money that the coach wanted for assistants.
I think any online poll would heavily lean towards the negative side for Ray.
If we did one on this site it would be like….
Should USC keep Tanner as A/D.
No- 90%
Yes- 10%