Arizona State athletic director Anderson resigns

• Paolo Uggetti, ESPNNov 13, 2023, 02:11 PM ET Ray Anderson resigned from his position as Arizona State’s athletic director, the school revealed in a press release Monday. The move is effective immediately.

  “It has been an advantage to act as ASU’s athletic director for nearly a decade,” Anderson said in a statement. “We have gotten in an unprecedented age where the number and magnitude of modifications in the college sports landscape are remarkable. As I approach my seventh years of life, these are not matters that my management would be able to confine during my period. Continuity of management will be needed, and I am picking to step aside to let the university find that leader.”

  Anderson’s resignation begins the heels of the program announcing before the season that they would self-impose a bowl restriction in hopes of lowering charges from the pending investigation into hiring malpractices by previous football coach Herm Edwards– whom Anderson employed– and his staff. The bowl ban was announced four days before Kenny Dillingham’s launching as the Sun Devils’ brand-new coach.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated The school announced Monday that Jim Rund, ASU’s senior vice president of educational outreach and trainee services, will be the interim athletic director in the wake of Anderson’s departure. Rund was likewise the interim athletic director in 2013 when then-ASU advertisement Steve Patterson left for Texas.Anderson, who participated in and played football at Stanford, was worked with by ASU in January 2014 to be the program’s next athletic director. While Anderson had been an agent to NFL players and coaches, as well as the vice president of the Falcons and the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, Arizona State was Anderson’s first college position.His period in Tempe was one that included highs such as managing the$268 million renovation to Sun Devil Arena, including its identifying rights contract, along with a$38 million garments handle Adidas and ASU’s upcoming move to the Big 12. However it also had a number of lows; Anderson was slammed for the absence of success the football program had under his watch and most especially under Edwards, who went 28-27 throughout his time as coach.Arizona State’s next athletic director, according to the school’s press release, will”assist browse ASU’s upcoming move into

the Huge 12 conference and other landscape-shifting problems consisting of NIL, the transfer portal and recent Title IX difficulties.”