Rank SEC Athletic Directors --- (offseason thread)

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3. Jeff Long (Arkansas)

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Has three straight bad football hires...prob should be lower.

Bill Battle should be #2. And the Georgia AD at #2? Laughable

I don't even know when half these guys were hired, which coaching hires they're responsible for, or what most of them look like.

So hats off to you for digging that deep, or more likely hats off to you for making a list and just putting people in places fairly arbitrarily.

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13. Ray Tanner (South Carolina)

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lulz, you have no idea what you're talking about, nice troll

Meyer was a Machen hire, not a Foley hire.

And Muschamp has been a pretty poor choice.

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4. Eric Hyman (Texas A&M)

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He does less with more more than anyone

How can you even rank this? Bill Battle is a new AD. His background is business. He started the Collegiate Licensing Company. We don't even know how good he can be just yet. Really, aside from Foley, aren't most former coaches? Bjork? Long?

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8. Mitch Barnhart (Kentucky)

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Hired in 2002

Football - inherited Guy Morriss
2003 Rich Brooks to KY (solid hire)
2010 Joker (Peter Principle hire)
2013 Marks Stoops (looking like a good hire so far)

M Basketball - inherited Tubby Smith
2007 Billy Clyde (deer in headlight hire)
2009 Coach Cal (1 Elite Eight, 1 Final Four, 1 National Champion in 4 seasons)

W Basketball - inherited Bernadette Locke - Mattox
2003 Mickie Demoss (brought UK women back from multi decade slumber)
2007 Matthew Mitchell (7 post season tourneys in 7 years, 3 Elite Eights)

Baseball - inherited Keith Madison
2004 - John Cohen (made 2 regionals in 5 years)
2009 - Gary Henderson (regional in 2012)

Rifle
2002, 2009, 2012, and 2013 - NCAA Runner Up
2011 - NCAA National Champion

Volleyball - inherited Jona Braden (90-119, .431 win %)
2005 - Craig Skinner went 84 - 40 for .667 win % and NCAA appearance every year as coach


New T&F facilities 2 years ago, new softball facility last year, and football facilities currently being upgraded. New baseball stadium planned and full renovation of Rupp planned.

David Williams is the man. He finally got administration to take sports seriously. His only "mistake" is that he's letting Kevin Stallings overstay his welcome. Even so, that's rather minor, if not frustrating, since Vandy basketball still is better than most in SEC. VCDW has kept one of the best baseball coaches in the country around a program that was lackluster before him. He also pushed for hiring Charlie Strong as football HC after Bobby Johnson left but other administration told him no (back during not technically having an AD, IIRC) then had Malzahn ready to take the job until a last minute change of heart by Gus before finally settling on some no-name James Franklin. Anyone who can guide Vandy football to snagging BCS bowl winning coordinators is way above 11th in SEC.