Texas Tech’s Mark Adams steps down as guys’s basketball coach

Mar 8, 2023

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  Jeff BorzelloESPN Staff Writer

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Texas Tech coach Mark Adams has actually stepped down from his position, the school revealed Wednesday night, days after he was suspended for utilizing what the school called an “improper, undesirable, and racially insensitive remark.”

Adams didn’t coach the Red Raiders in their Big 12 competition loss to West Virginia on Wednesday, with assistant coach Corey Williams dealing with interim head coach responsibilities.

“My long-lasting objective was to assist and be a favorable impact on my gamers, and to be a part of the Texas Tech males’s basketball group,” Adams stated in a ready declaration. “However, both the University and I think this occurrence has actually ended up being a diversion for the Texas Tech males’s basketball group and the University, which I appreciate so deeply.”

According to the school, Adams was motivating a gamer to be more responsive to training and “referenced Bible verses about employees, instructors, moms and dads, and servants serving their masters.” Adams said sorry to the group instantly after the remark, the school stated.

Athletic director Kirby Hocutt was warned of the occurrence. He provided Adams a composed reprimand however then decided to suspend the coach to perform a “more comprehensive questions of Adams’ interactions with his gamers and personnel.”

Hocutt figured out that Adams’ remark was unintended and a separated occurrence following his query.

Texas Tech’s conference competition loss dropped the Red Raiders to 16-16 on the season, 5-13 in conference play.

North Texas’ Grant McCasland and Oral Roberts’ Paul Mills, 2 previous Scott Drew assistants, are anticipated to be leading prospects to change Adams, sources informed ESPN.

Adams was currently under pressure from prominent individuals around the program since of Texas Tech’s frustrating season, sources informed ESPN. He signed an agreement extension last spring that was set to go through the 2026-27 season and pay him $15.5 million over 5 years.

Adams, 66, finished from Texas Tech in 1979 and had actually been a coach with the Red Raiders because 2016, initially as an assistant under Chris Beard and the previous 2 seasons as Beard’s replacement. He likewise invested 2 seasons as the program’s director of basketball operations under Tubby Smith from 2013 to 2015.

Adams had actually been a long time college coach in Texas prior to signing up with the Texas Tech personnel, making stops at 5 schools over 30 years.

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