NCAA Coaching Carousel: Mark Adams Steps Down At Texas Tech After Racially Insensitive Remark

Mark Adams has stepped down as head coach of the Texas Tech males’s basketball program after making a racially insensitive remark earlier this week that led to his suspension.

Adams resigned after the Crimson Raiders had been eradicated by West Virginia, 78-62, within the Large 12 Event.

“My lifelong purpose was to assist and be a optimistic affect on my gamers, and to be part of the Texas Tech males’s basketball workforce,” Adams mentioned in a press release. “Nonetheless, each the College and I imagine this incident has turn out to be a distraction for the Texas Tech males’s basketball workforce and the College, which I care about so deeply.”

Texas Tech earlier this week suspended Adams for what the college referred to as an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive remark” to a participant who was not recognized.

“Adams was encouraging the student-athlete to be extra receptive to teaching and referenced Bible verses about staff, lecturers, mother and father, and slaves serving their masters,” the college mentioned. “Adams instantly addressed this with the workforce and apologized.”

Adams, 66, went 43-25 in two seasons on the Large 12 college, together with a Candy 16 look final season.

Amongst attainable replacements for Adams are North Texas coach Grant McCasland, Oral Roberts coach Paul Mills, Houston assistant Kellen Sampson, Texas interim coach Rodney Terry, Iona coach Rick Pitino and former LSU coach Will Wade, who can also be the frontrunner at McNeese State.

Pitino, 70, was named the MAAC Coach of the Yr for the second straight season, and was exonerated earlier this season by the IARP within the Louisville infractions case.

One in all three coaches to guide 5 packages to the NCAA Event, he’s additionally anticipated to be within the combine at St. John’s ought to the college half methods with Mike Anderson. Pitino is at present teaching Iona within the MAAC Event.