Texas Longhorns basketball has suspended its coach Chris Beard with out pay, after he was arrested Monday for allegedly ‘strangling a member of the family’.
Beard was booked for third-degree assault at 4:18am Monday, and the group launched a press release later the identical day confirming he wouldn’t be current with the group for the foreseeable future.
‘The College takes issues of interpersonal violence involving members of its group critically. Given the knowledge out there, The College has suspended Chris Beard from his place as head coach of Males’s Basketball and can withhold his pay till additional discover,’ the college mentioned.
Austin police had been referred to as to his house on Monday, the place a girl claims she was ‘assaulted and strangled’ by the 49-year-old.
Texas males’s basketball coach Chris Beard (L) leaves the Travis County jail with lawyer Perry Minton (R) after an 11-hour lockup for an alleged in a single day home violence incident
Austin police say they took a ‘disturbance hotshot’ name after midnight and officers had been dispatched to Vista Lane in a residential space of Texas’ capital metropolis. Beard has a listed deal with on that road (pictured)
Beard has now been suspended by the Texas Longhorns basketball group with out pay
He has posted a $10,000 bond and was subsequently launched from Travis County Jail. An arrest affidavit will not be at present out there, based on the Travis County Clerk’s workplace.
Beard’s lawyer, Perry Minton, instructed the Austin American-Statesman that his shopper ‘is 100% harmless of those costs.’
‘He ought to by no means have been arrested,’ Minton instructed the newspaper. ‘The complainant needs him launched instantly and all costs dismissed. It’s really inconceivable.’
Austin police say they took a ‘disturbance hotshot’ name after midnight and officers had been dispatched to the 1900 block of Vista Lane in a residential space of Texas’ capital metropolis. Beard has a listed deal with on that road.
A ‘hotshot’ name is described on the division’s web site as an ‘incidents that are in progress [that] are a right away menace to life and/or public security.’
The Longhorns are at present ranked second total within the Related Press ballot at 7-1, and are scheduled to host in-state rival Rice on Monday night time.
Affiliate head coach Rodney Terry will function appearing head coach for the sport, and is anticipated to proceed within the position for the approaching days and weeks.
Beard is at present in his second season at Texas after leaving Texas Tech in 2021.
Beard and his spouse, Leslie, have three daughters, based on his bio from Angelo State College, the place he coached from 2013 till 2015.
Since then, the 49-year-old has coached at Little Rock and Texas Tech, the place he was named the AP Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2019 as he guided the Pink Raiders to the NCAA title recreation. Finally Texas Tech would lose to Virginia, however the match run would assist Beard to signal a reported seven-year, $35 million take care of the Texas athletic division in April of 2021.
Beard and the Longhorns went 22–12 final season earlier than shedding within the first spherical of the NCAA Event.
He might be fired for trigger as a consequence of his arrest, that means he wouldn’t be owed the rest of his contract.
Because it stands, he has now been suspended and won’t be paid whereas the investigation is ongoing.
That is the second arrest to hit the Texas males’s basketball program this 12 months, following Arterio Morris, who faces a misdemeanor household violence cost following an alleged incident together with his former girlfriend. Morris is due in courtroom for a listening to within the case on Wednesday.
