[dead link] Beard also spent one year as head coach for the South Carolina Warriors of the American Basketball Association, where he led the team to a … A mere 19 days ago Chris Beard agreed to become the head coach at UNLV, leaving Arkansas-Little Rock after just one season. Chris Beard (left) in 2006, during his days as an assistant at Texas Tech with Pat Knight (center) and Bob Knight. And then each job accordingly.I’m not a guy that looks for job. "In only three years, Chris Beard has elevated Texas Tech to the upper echelon of college basketball," said Hocutt, the school's athletic director.

Good players and good teams are what create opportunities. I have a lot of respect for coach [Tubby] Smith. He doesn’t have a chance to wait for Year 2 to be special. Each day we try to win.

When Chris Beard took over the men’s basketball team at Texas Tech three years ago, he started to look at other programs he wanted to emulate. Hand is still healing. All Rights Reserved. And that’s kind of our view too with our off-the-court stuff. We had a special team that came together and played the right way, and opportunities come from that.Sometimes the timing is not great, but it affects a lot of people. And that will certainly be the goal here. © 2020 ABG-SI LLC. Don’t tell that to Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard. My daughters are going to support me and love me no matter where I coach. The dining chairs and rugs throughout the home are from The Gingham Buffalo, an eclectic home furnishings store in Edwardsville that’s owned by Beard’s ex-wife, Chris Beard. On March 27, 2016, Beard accepted the head coaching job at On January 3, 2017, Beard led Texas Tech to upset #7 West VirginiaOn March 9, 2019 under Beard's leadership Texas Tech won a share of the Big 12 regular season title, Texas Tech's first ever title in the Big 12 conference and its first conference title since 1996 when the team played in the Southwest Conference.For his efforts, on April 29, 2019 Beard signed a six-year extension worth more than $4.5 million a seasonBig 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year I don’t think you can ever do too much.In preparation for a game, we don’t sit around and think, ‘That’s too much.’ We do everything we possibly can to help our players win every possession. I try to win and do the best job I can. I’ve always respected him from afar. The Little Rock situation was probably the best example of all. Hand is still healing. MINNEAPOLIS - Texas Tech basketball coach Chris Beard has a support staff that's especially active this time of year. We support the university and its mission.You’d have to look at each move and understand. We win, we win the right way, we graduate players. All these things make up our day-to-day process. Under Beard's watch, the Red Raiders have made the deepest NCAA Tournament runs in school history. Everybody in the program, from our coaches to our student managers, each person tries to have the best day they can that day. I’m not a guy who ever looked for a job. I don’t think it ever gets old as long as you’re bringing real material and you’re being sincere in trying to help your players. I think those guys deserve a chance to win.

We told all three of those guys the truth. I wasn’t looking for a job, but I had the opportunity to go to North Texas and be a full-time assistant at a Division I school at a young age. A lot of times in coaching changes, that’s the thing that gets left out, that senior. This is a guy who just loves life, and he loves Iowa State.

I didn’t return to Texas Tech to coach just to be close to my daughters. He did a great job coaching here. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. We’ll do everything we can here to send our seniors out as champions.Anything we can think of, any way we can motivate them, any way we can educate them or help them improve, we’re always open to it.

For the journeyman basketball coach, whose career had … “I run everything by her,” he says.

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Wes Flanigan was one of our assistants at Little Rock, and because of our success and my new opportunity, Wes is a head coach now. Anything and everything we can do to help our players, we’ll try to do.Coach Knight would drive two hours for BBQ if he heard there was a good hole-in-the-wall.New Texas Tech coach Chris Beard discusses last season with Little Rock, his brief stay at UNLV and his future with the Red Raiders. It entails a lot of things—nutrition, individual works, academics, sleep, team practice, being unselfish. The foundation is solid. Watching those three guys get on the ladder and cut down the net and go to the NCAA tournament, that was one of the highlights of my career. SUBSCRIBE NOW $3 for 3 months. It’s led to some tremendous opportunities. Chris Beard: Out of the cast. I remember as a young coach working for someone I really respected, but his view of motivation was that you only have so many bullets and you can’t shoot one every day. He did a lot of great things at Tech. I came to Texas Tech to compete in the Big 12, to win championships, to graduate every player and to continue to build a program.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy I think it always will be.The next morning, the decision was made and things moved very quickly.He just supported me, basically. AP. He felt you could only shoot one every few days, and I respectfully disagree with that. I spend more time studying college football than college basketball. I’ve been very, very lucky and very fortunate that I’ve been around some good players. He was going to be supportive and help us there any way. In 2019, the Raiders won a school-record 31 games on the way to the Following that season, he was hired as an assistant and later associate head coach at On April 8, 2015, Beard was named the head coach of Beard was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year for his efforts. All of them were great. To me, it was just a special thing and a really cool thing, but it wasn’t the reason I came to Tech.I think if you reached out to all the people that I’ve worked with and worked for, including ADs and presidents—and most importantly players—I think that you would find positive remarks on what we do.

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