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re: Remember when that dumbass Ray Tanner hired Paul Mainieri to lead our baseball team?
Posted on 2/26/26 at 11:57 am to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 2/26/26 at 11:57 am to CarolinaGamecock99
Tanner should be prosecuted for murdering our program.
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Posted on 2/26/26 at 12:35 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
All of this, everything that is happening to SC right now, in men's sports, is on Ray Tanner.
I said it was happening years ago ... Ray should have been fired when he botched Spurrier's exit, when he destroyed Frank Martin, when he hired Will Muschamp and Mark Kingston and LaMont Paris.
He should have never been allowed to make the Baseball Paul hire ... it was a desperation hire.
The program is in dire straights. It'll recover, JD is digging it out of the hole now ... but it's going to take some work.
Ray Tanner destroyed his own legacy. Even his former players are saying it. And I saw Paul's face last night after the game. He's done, he's tired. And here we are heading into the werkend series against the sheep humping sister banging taterheads ... and they've got the coach that we were urged to hire while he was still at Maryland.
Ray ... I cannot put into words the damage that he did to this program.
I said it was happening years ago ... Ray should have been fired when he botched Spurrier's exit, when he destroyed Frank Martin, when he hired Will Muschamp and Mark Kingston and LaMont Paris.
He should have never been allowed to make the Baseball Paul hire ... it was a desperation hire.
The program is in dire straights. It'll recover, JD is digging it out of the hole now ... but it's going to take some work.
Ray Tanner destroyed his own legacy. Even his former players are saying it. And I saw Paul's face last night after the game. He's done, he's tired. And here we are heading into the werkend series against the sheep humping sister banging taterheads ... and they've got the coach that we were urged to hire while he was still at Maryland.
Ray ... I cannot put into words the damage that he did to this program.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 1:06 pm to lsufball19
He actually took over a pretty strong department. Spurrier had the football program as a top 10 team.
Baseball fall from grace was a horrible look considering he is a baseball legend, but football was on the decline before he could sink his claws in the program as AD. Usce was top ten his first year and like 7-6 his second year as ad. Hiring will muschamp was bad but that’s just being new on the job, he had a couple guys he wanted and no back up plan when they said no. Basketball was awful since Odom left outside of one final four run, and a nit run. Lamont Paris was a bad hand, up and comer almost wins the conference his second year and had bigger bball programs sniffing around looking to poach Paris, every AD makes that extension. He didn’t do great but he was put in a terrible spot for a guy without any experience.
Baseball fall from grace was a horrible look considering he is a baseball legend, but football was on the decline before he could sink his claws in the program as AD. Usce was top ten his first year and like 7-6 his second year as ad. Hiring will muschamp was bad but that’s just being new on the job, he had a couple guys he wanted and no back up plan when they said no. Basketball was awful since Odom left outside of one final four run, and a nit run. Lamont Paris was a bad hand, up and comer almost wins the conference his second year and had bigger bball programs sniffing around looking to poach Paris, every AD makes that extension. He didn’t do great but he was put in a terrible spot for a guy without any experience.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 1:24 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
What are ya'll paying that retard?
Get rid of him. Why is he still there?????
Get rid of him. Why is he still there?????
Posted on 2/26/26 at 1:36 pm to bigDgator
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Pretty sure they all hate the guy now for what he has done as an athletic director.
Lil Ole Fat Woodward says "Hold My Beer!"
Posted on 2/26/26 at 1:46 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Posted on 2/26/26 at 1:51 pm to scrooster
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And I saw Paul's face last night after the game. He's done, he's tired.
That is pretty much how he has looked since his dad died. He has been done with baseball and collecting a check ever since
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:10 pm to ThePoo
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He has been done with baseball and collecting a check ever since
I wouldn't go that far to say he's simply collecting a check and doesn't care. I think his issue is lack of self-awareness he can't do the job anymore. It's a young man's game, and a young man he is not anymore. He never wanted to retire when he did at LSU. He was, more or less, forced out and we wanted to allow him to do it gracefully. But he constantly showed interest for other jobs. I know the Miami job was a thing that came up the year prior to him taking the USC job. I think his own ego has prevented him being able to accept he isn't able to win anymore. I do agree that when his dad passed and then his subsequent health issues had a big effect on him. He basically delegated all his day-to-day responsibilities to Nolan Cain and the rest of the staff at that point.
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:10 pm to scrooster
South Carolina ought to hope DVH stays around 5 more years cause then the Gamecocks would be able to grab Vitello and then they would be right on track
Carolina shouldve hired O Conner years ago
Carolina shouldve hired O Conner years ago
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:11 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
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What’s below the abyss?
Smoke Laval
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:19 pm to lsufball19
I would go that far, he legit looks like he doesn’t want to be where he is and is just going through the motions and it’s looked that way for 5 years
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:39 pm to Serraneaux
Yup. Tony made him quit. Never been the same since.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:40 pm to BaseVOLS
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Yup. Tony made him quit. Never been the same since.
He announced his retirement before the SECT that year
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:44 pm to lsufball19
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He announced his retirement before the SECT that year
Yeah and we swept him that year too. Dude went 0-5 against Tennessee that year
Posted on 2/26/26 at 2:48 pm to VFL67
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Yeah and we swept him that year too. Dude went 0-5 against Tennessee that year
What's your point? He'd won 15 of the previous 16 games against Tennessee. He lost a lot of games that year, hence why he announced his retirement before the postseason started
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 2/26/26 at 3:20 pm to BaseVOLS
quote:Paul has never been the same coach he was prior to his father's passing in March 2019 -
Tony made him quit. Never been the same since.
the orange shoe clown that is now in San Francisco had nothing to do with PM's career trajectory at any point -
I'm not a fan of PM's platitude manure speak since he's been at USC for 63 games - it's not his fault he's got the job either - Tanner was in a free fall after Kevin O once again led Ray to think he was interested in coming to Carolina - so Ray threw a blind dart desperation at Brian O'Connor who had just been told he'd have NIL $$$ at UVA - so O'Connor told Ray to talk with Brian's good friend Paul - and here we are -
Posted on 2/26/26 at 3:38 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
I think Tanner may be a worse AD than Ross Bjork who somehow got hired at OSU. I think he raises money only and does not make any decisions on the athletic programs. USC needs to fire Tanner now or hope he gets lured away to Texas A&M or OSU.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 3:54 pm to rebelrouser
Tanner is gone, but he's left behind such a mess that it's going to require a herculean effort just to be mediocre again, let alone competitive.
It's truly difficult to explain *how bad* all four men's sports are now.
It's truly difficult to explain *how bad* all four men's sports are now.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 3:56 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
It’s a midweek game dude. LSU also lost and LSU isn’t panicking.
That said, Paul was looking for a paycheck and he got some.
That said, Paul was looking for a paycheck and he got some.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 4:03 pm to bamabaseballsec
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He didn’t do great but he was put in a terrible spot for a guy without any experience
He was handed a solid program by Hyman ... but immediately screwed it up.
He immediately bitched about Hyman hiring Martin right before he left for A&M ... he told me point blank he would have kept his buddy, Horn.
He got shite on by Tom Herman after the Citadel loss, and scrambled to hire Muschamp.
He absolutely shite on Frank Martin and destroyed his chances to continue building after the Final Four and then the BB gun incident.
It goes on and on with Ray.
Hyman left, abruptly, for A&M. Tanner was the AD in waiting after having threatened to leave for Texas a couple of years earlier. Tanner got the AD job while he was still in Omaha.
I'm not holding the Chad Holbrook hire against him ... that was the logical move and he had promised Holbrook the job.
Tanner was not supposed to be the AD until 2016 when Hyman's contract expired and he (Hyman) said he was going to retire.
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