Yes, he did. He may not have lost his temper and ranted like many on here seem to have wanted, but he handled it through the proper channels and filed a complaint with the conference.
Sir Tanner has got to go
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If you call that backing Staley, I've got some nice, ocean-front property in Nebraska to sell you.
That was the weakest and most tepid "defense" I've seen since Wally Burnham.
He would've lost nothing by going on air and really demanding an apology for the completely baseless and bogus comments by Mizzou's AD. (And before you respond, no. Saying he didn't "understand" the comments and that he "thought" an apology should be in order is not a demand.)
Finally, why did Dawn feel the need to file a lawsuit if she felt her AD had properly defended her honor? Seems to me she didn't feel very defended.
This was the easiest layup of Tanner's AD career, and he completely botched it.
He did seem to get quite a bit angrier over the bat warming accusations when he was coaching than he did the Dawn situation.
He let the Mizzou AD trash Dawn and our fans, twice. I was extremely disappointed in Ray Tanner and was worried that Staley might leave us over it. She took matters into her own hands.
And our "professional" AD did absolutely nothing to defend him.....absolutely nothing!
Because of Tanner, the Mizzou AD also got reprimanded by the SEC and was required to pay a fine. The SEC shut him up. Tanner handled it professionally through the channels he was supposed to do.
He was a coach then, firing back at another coach. The Mizzou AD was punching below him in the pecking order. That's why as AD, Ray should've defended Dawn a helluva lot better than he did. Just imagine all the goodwill he would've garnered from fans had he done so. Not to mention serving notice to the rest of the conference that we won't be disrespected like that.
Add the absurd Javon Charleston situation to the list. If this stuff happens somewhere else, I haven't seen it.
And if he had, Tanner would also have been disciplined and fined by the SEC as was the Mizzou AD. Whether you like it or not, he handled it professionally and properly....and I don't doubt for a second that Hyman and McGee would have handled it in the same manner, if they would've gotten involved at all, as both were extremely hands off.
It would have been the same principle as getting tossed out of a game. You let your guys and gals know you've got their back. Everything else you said is just conjecture.
What's conjecture? That Hyman and McGee were very hands off with their coaches? They were....Hyman much moreso than McGee. Hyman was too involved in the business aspects of the ADs office to be highly concerned about the athletic aspect (i.e. the coaches).
How you say with such authority they would have handled the situation is conjecture. Awfully hard to prove that one way or the other. But we know how Ray handled it.
This is the most stupid post I have seen on this board, and that is REALLY saying something.
1) Frank's behavior in public is atrocious at times. He deserved to be suspended.
2) Thornwell was suspended because of University drug policies. That was out of Ray's hands.
3) The ticket fiasco you blame on Ray was out of his hands also. The insurance company said all tickets had to be refunded in order for the University to file a claim.
4) Holbrook was done here. Who cares if he was looking for another job? I will concede he should have been fired in 2015, and I have posted that many times.
5)Tanner never asked Spurrier to return. Jeri Spurrier insisted he return, and Spurrier has stated that publicly.
6) This has been a problem at USC for decades. It didn't start with Tanner.
I'll tell you one thing: this woman brings it!
#6 could easily be fixed by now and I figured Ray would be the type who would have fixed that long time ago.
RT probably has similar conversations with all head coaches of all varsity sports USC sponsors. And he probably had several conversations with Dawn regarding the Mizzou AD's rampage.
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