{"id":178342,"date":"2023-01-06T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/texas-basketball-coach-chris-beard-fired-following-december-arrest\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:22:08","slug":"texas-basketball-coach-chris-beard-fired-following-december-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/texas-basketball-coach-chris-beard-fired-following-december-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas basketball coach Chris Beard fired following December arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"
The University of Texas fired Longhorns men’s basketball head coach Chris Beard on Thursday, less than a month after his Dec. 12 arrest on a third-degree felony domestic violence charge after an altercation with his fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n
Beard was offered the chance to resign, according to documents obtained by the American-Statesman under the Texas Public Information Act, but he chose not to and still doesn’t understand what he did wrong, a UT vice president said.<\/p>\n
Perry Minton, Beard’s lawyer, wrote UT on Thursday morning, saying, “I want to be on record as emphatically stating, and herein memorializing, that Coach Beard has not done anything to violate any provision of his contract with the University of Texas.”<\/p>\n
However, James Davis, vice president for UT legal affairs, responded in a reverse letter: “Chris Beard engaged in unacceptable behavior that makes him unfit to serve as head coach at our university. Instead of immediately terminating Mr. Beard, the university exercised thoughtful restraint to allow time for additional material facts to emerge.”<\/p>\n\n
Beard, 49, was in his second season as head basketball coach. He had been suspended without pay by the university since Dec. 12 after his fianc\u00e9e, Randi Trew, called Austin police and told them Beard had strangled her, bitten her and caused her abrasions. He was booked into the Travis County Jail and released later that day after posting $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Davis closed his strong letter Thursday with a damning comment about Beard’s involvement in the situation and lack of perspective.<\/p>\n
“Additionally,” Davis wrote, “your letter this morning reveals that Mr. Beard does not understand thesignificance of the behavior he knows he engaged in, or the ensuing events that impair his abilityto effectively lead our program. This lack of self-awareness is yet another failure of judgment that makes Mr. Beard unfit to serve as a head coach at our university.”<\/p>\n