Ray Tanner Resigns

Wow! Really seems too bad for college baseball.

I'm not aware of any sport that wouldn't miss a coach of Ray Tanner's stature. However, the Associate Head Coach, Chad Holbrook, is extremely well equipped to move into the vacancy this creates.

Here's wishing two fine gentlemen of the game all the best in their new roles.

Is this the normal course that most HC in college sports desire - AD..?

Just seems to me that the more successful one is in college sports regardless of what sport it is, they would possibly make more $$ over their career than that of an AD position.

I am going to assume that an SEC AD would make more than the bb coach.

Tanner was at one time assistant AD at NC State and made it known he was interested in the position.

Ray's current base salary is $210K. Hyman, the guy he's replacing, makes $384K.

As TPM said, Tanner has been interested in the AD spot for awhile now and the more conventional office hours that come with the job. Ray has a beuatiful family that will have him at home now.

So is this really a "resignation" or a "promotion"?

I dont see him resigning to take an AD position at the same school..???

YGD

It's a promotion. Exactly as John Stenner suggested, it had been common knowledge for some time that Coach Tanner was extremely interested in the AD position once it came open; and, he'd positioned Coach Holbrook to be his successor.

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Originally posted by john stenner:
Ray's current base salary is $210K. Hyman, the guy he's replacing, makes $384K.

As TPM said, Tanner has been interested in the AD spot for awhile now and the more conventional office hours that come with the job. Ray has a beuatiful family that will have him at home now.

Hmm, a $174,000.00 raise, hard to turn down. It goes to show you how underpaid college athletics are....
I thought I was doing good with a $2500 a year raise.

Maybe we should "Occupy South Carolina"?

Keep in mind that was only Tanner's base salary. I had read once with all the incentives, endorsements, camp, etc it was pretty close to 500k? They get incentives for everything, GPA, wins losses, conference championships and CWS visits and wins.

But that still doesn't come close to SEC football coach's salaries.

Regardless, sometimes it's just not all about the money. Either that or his contract is laced with incentives from the university.

Actually, Tanner will take a pay cut of about $200,000 to be the new AD, according to published reports. Including incentives and bonuses, he made about $877,000 a year ago as baseball coach. The AD spot will pay him a total of $675,000. Yes, he really wanted to be the AD, a long-time goal for him. College baseball will miss a guy who made three straight trips to the CWS finals. Holbrook will be named the new coach tomorrow after successful assistant stints at UNC (his alma mater) and South Carolina.

The base salaries I quoted previously were obtained from the The State newspaper's salary data base of state employees making greater than $50K. Of course the base does not take into account endorsements, bonuses, etc.

The link is an interesting sports editorial concerning the non-search.

http://www.thestate.com/2012/0...-have-conducted.html