Mar 8, 2023
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Jeff BorzelloESPN Employees Author
- Basketball recruiting insider.
- Joined ESPN in 2014.
- Graduate of College of Delaware.
Texas Tech coach Mark Adams has stepped down from his place, the college introduced Wednesday evening, days after he was suspended for utilizing what the college known as an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive remark.”
Adams did not coach the Crimson Raiders of their Large 12 event loss to West Virginia on Wednesday, with assistant coach Corey Williams dealing with interim head coach duties.
“My lifelong purpose was to assist and be a constructive affect on my gamers, and to be part of the Texas Tech males’s basketball group,” Adams mentioned in a ready assertion. “Nevertheless, each the College and I consider this incident has change into a distraction for the Texas Tech males’s basketball group and the College, which I care about so deeply.”
In accordance with the college, Adams was encouraging a participant to be extra receptive to teaching and “referenced Bible verses about employees, lecturers, mother and father, and slaves serving their masters.” Adams apologized to the group instantly after the remark, the college mentioned.
Athletic director Kirby Hocutt was made conscious of the incident. He issued Adams a written reprimand however then made the choice to droop the coach to conduct a “extra thorough inquiry of Adams’ interactions along with his gamers and employees.”
Hocutt decided that Adams’ remark was unintentional and an remoted incident following his inquiry.
Texas Tech’s convention event loss dropped the Crimson Raiders to 16-16 on the season, 5-13 in convention play.
North Texas’ Grant McCasland and Oral Roberts’ Paul Mills, two former Scott Drew assistants, are anticipated to be prime candidates to switch Adams, sources advised ESPN.
Adams was already underneath strain from influential folks across the program due to Texas Tech’s disappointing season, sources advised ESPN. He signed a contract extension final spring that was set to run by means of the 2026-27 season and pay him $15.5 million over 5 years.
Adams, 66, graduated from Texas Tech in 1979 and had been a coach with the Crimson Raiders since 2016, first as an assistant underneath Chris Beard and the previous two seasons as Beard’s alternative. He additionally spent two seasons as this system’s director of basketball operations underneath Tubby Smith from 2013 to 2015.
Adams had been a longtime faculty coach in Texas earlier than becoming a member of the Texas Tech employees, making stops at 5 colleges over 30 years.
