Ray Tanner Needs To Take A Chill Pill
University of South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner is hoppin’ mad with ESPN analyst PaYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Maybe you and Paul F. should go find a nice quite place and suck each others dicks. We will be part owners in the SEC network, and we don’t need to subsidize that “South Carolina should never be in the SEC” Alabama homer queer looking puke’s career.
These “shock journalist” tend to take up for each other. In any event, Finebaum can say all he pleases, but if he says something out of line he should expect some blowback. Our AD took up for an amateur athlete that was called the biggest “joke in college football” all because he was injured. I’m glad that Tanner has the balls to publicly have our player’s back.
Roberto needs a couple Quaaludes.
Everything reminds me of a song…;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFYFj5q8_Qk
Your POV is way out of line. The Ron Morris punishment was totally justified. AD Tanner is justified to have Finebaum booted from SEC TV/ESPN Network for his hateful comments against…a student athlete? How could you see it any other way? Amazing how people’s ill perceptions and inability to see factual evidence cloud up their reality.
Obviously you have been in a drug induced haze for decades. USC has fought The State’s writers since the days of Herman Helms. Morris just happens to be there at the time it is run by weak kneed editors. You also do not understand Finebaum’s shtick. Just like Sic Willie, he knows saying controversial things gets viewers. Tanner doesn’t understand that..
I’m constantly amazed with the expectation of “Homer’s.” Hell, I go back to Jake Penland, Herman Helms and others of newpaper yesteryear. Charley Hall, Carroll Godwin, Cap’t. Knozit, and Joe Daggett of Charleston and Columbia TV. I even remember Ed Young and “Slim” Mims of the Florence market.
You’re right, today’s editor’s make decisions on who’s feelings get hurt. It used to be who could sell papers with controversy. Now, it’s who can dodge the reactionary indignation of the illiteratem but highly opinionated masses.
If it weren’t for Obits, Sports, and Letters to the Editor sections, no one would even bother to read today’s newspapers. Even those are being displaced by blogs now.
You still read newspapers? Are you 200 years old?
You see it another way when Clowney spent the entire off season talking smack! “I’m going to take money out of his pocket”. “Double teaming me will not stop me”. “Quarterbacks fear me”
That’s how you ridicule a ” student athlete”.
Spurrier simply allowed Clowney to become the face of USC football. He became bigger than the team. I remember reading a quote from Spurrier before the Georgia game…….. “Clowney is ready to play and we’re ready to play” WTF does that say?
He opened himself up to be ridiculed by doing it to others. He sure talked a lot but has yet to live up to the hype..
I know who will win this fight.
Clowney is no STUDENT/athlete. The guy can barely read. If it weren’t for his athletic ability he’d never have made it out of high school.
As a Clemson defensive player proved a few years ago with his online “journal,” it’s all about football.
“But the Tanner, Spurrier and others seem to think this success grants them immunity from criticism – even when they clearly deserve to be criticized.” I think you lost your logic line. The analyst was criticizing Clowney, not Tanner and Spurrier.
Didn’t take long for Tanner’s head to outgrow his AD Hat
Actually, taking up for players that play for South Carolina is part of an AD’s job.
Outside of Columbia, it’s Ray “who”?
That would be Ray ”
1992 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Champ,
2000 Southeastern Conference Champ,
2002 Southeastern Conference Champ,
2004 Southeastern Conference Tournament Champ,
2010 NCAA Championship Champ,
2011 Southeastern Conference Champ,
1990 ACC Coach of the Year,
1998 SEC Coach of the Year,
2000 SEC Coach of the Year,
2000 National Coach of the Year,
2010 National Coach of the Year,
2011 SEC Coach of the Year,
2011 National Coach of the Year” Tanner
perfect
LIke I said, outside of Columbia, 99.9999% of people wouldn’t know who he is… unless they did what you did and search for him on Google.
Yeah, the only thing I “Googled” (WIKI’d actually) was the number of years he led the Cocks to the NCAAs. You don’t win the National Coach of the year 4 times and remain unknown – your ignorance aside.
You do realize that a great majority of people don’t really care about college baseball, that to them it’s on par with college golf.
People don’t care about College baseball?!? Apostasy.
This years College World Series set a new attendance record of 340,000. http://sports.omaha.com/2013/06/26/college-world-series-sets-attendance-record/ I’m willing to bet more people attend college baseball (total ticket sales) than attend college football games.
That can happen when they play 5x as many games.
How many of those 340,000 were repeat visitors?
Clemson fans sure know who he is.
And you don’t think the vast number of “butts in the seats” at Williams Brice are “repeat visitors”. Maybe you’d be interested in the number of season ticket holders – of the 80+thousand seats, 62,000 are held by season ticket holders.
There are plenty of people in the country that couldn’t name the Vice President either. So I’m not sure what standard you are setting up in the context of the article above.
75% of the country can’t distinguish from South Carolina and Florida on a map.
In Clemson he’s called Leggett’s daddy.
I’m sure they remember 2002 and 2010 all too well, when Tanner reversed the curse.
If Ray was truly “hopping mad”, does that mean at some point he could see over a six foot fence?
Standing on his trophies gives him an even better view.
Probably needs a boost to get up on them.
At least he has them to climb on.
Lucky for him or he’d have to find a knothole.
Keep up with the petty attacks on the guy that thoroughly kicked your asses repeatedly, bounced you from Omaha twice, and won two titles. I find it amusing.
Fuck you fits. Publish the book.
There is no book.
Time to bust out the “Fuck Finebaum” tee-shirts when we host UF for the SEC-E. He’s always been anti-South Carolina and his 1992 comments have not been forgotten. Best way to punish him is to hurt him in his wallet.
Yeah, and show everyone how low class USC fans can really are.
Seriously? You’re still wound up about something he said in 1992? Was it directed at your mother?
Yep, that will show everybody that USC athletics is a class act!
Ray Tanner handled the situation fine. It’s his job to take up for his school, especially when a guy that is going to work for the SEC gets personal in his comments toward a college athlete.