Nine years ago, Arizona State University President Michael Crow introduced a man who stepped down from his position of Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Atlanta Falcons to the exploding athletic scene in Tempe, Arizona. Ray Anderson was the qualified candidate who took the job in January of 2014, transforming the Arizona State athletic department across nearly a decade during rapidly changing times of college athletics.
Under Anderson, Sun Devil Athletics has been good, bad and ugly.
The good: Expansion
Under Anderson, Sun Devil Athletics expanded greatly as athletic director. Since 2014, Anderson helped to introduce four new varsity sports: men’s ice hockey, men’s tennis, women’s lacrosse and triathlon.