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Texas Tech head coach Mark Adams has resigned after being suspended for a “racially insensitive” comment to a player

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The school announced Wednesday night that Texas Tech head coach Mark Adams has resigned. Here’s what you need to know: The school announced on March 5 that Adams had been suspended for an “inappropriate, inappropriate, and racially insensitive comment” to a player last week. The school said that Adams, in his second year as the program’s head coach, “was encouraging the student-athlete to be more receptive to coaching and pointed to Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters” and “immediately addressed this with the team and…

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Send a question to Stuart Mandel Football Mailbag

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Are you more concerned about competing quarterbacks in Texas than NCAA Tournament seed Texas? More excited about the new SEC football schedule than the SEC basketball tournament? …can’t get enough of conference reorganization? This is the right place for you! Leave your questions here. Please include your city. .

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Mark Adams’ work should be done at Texas Tech. Now the school needs a course correction

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Mark Adams has to be finalized as Texas Tech men’s basketball coach, the only variables are when it becomes official and how much it will cost to do so. There is no other way forward. An absurdly egregious misunderstanding of what it means to be a college basketball coach made this decision for everyone. We know Adams used a Bible verse about slaves serving their masters in a conversation with an unnamed player, as Texas Tech explained to the world on Sunday. Black players comprise 12 of the 13 Red…

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Big 12 looking west, Pac-12 looking for TV deal: What we’re hearing about the realignment

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This past July, weeks after the stunning Big Ten announcement of USC and UCLA, Pac-12 Commissioner George Klyafkov made a bold realignment prediction: “No Pac-12 school is going to the Big 12.” After eight months, we may finally learn whether his confidence was warranted or a feigned bravado. Kliavkoff is under pressure to offer its members a new media rights deal by the end of the month. If the dollar numbers or the details disappoint, March could be the moment when the Big 12 finally hits. Sources familiar with the…

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Will Texas QB Quinn Ewers match Caleb Williams and Drake Maye in 2023? Ask TechExpert

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Signing Day is over in February, spring football is approaching, and Texas and Oklahoma are bound by the SEC a year ahead of schedule. Even in the sluggish part of the college football calendar, there’s a lot to discuss, so let’s get to your questions in the latest Ask the Texpert issue: (Note: Questions submitted have been slightly edited for length and clarity.) How do you think Queen Eyes will evolve after another stint with Steve Sarkissian? Could he jump his way into competing top three quarterbacks with USC’s Caleb…

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NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Alabama is the top seed. Northwestern and Clemson

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“They can’t imagine it… that someone like me would walk into their house, walk on their land…” – Cassian Andor When compiling this week’s segment, we were astounded by the inclusion of teams we’d never expected to have considered as recently as a few weeks ago. North-west? Pittsburgh? Clemson? UCF? wait … Is that true? It also got us thinking about another story focusing on underdogs who took the power structure by surprise: “Andor,” our favorite TV series of 2022. After the train wreck that was “The Book of Boba…

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Texas Tech denies Lane Kevin’s allegations at Texas Bowl of spitting on Dimitri Moore, possibly using racial slurs

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Texas Tech and linebacker coach Joey McGuire has denied allegations by Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin that Moore spat on Rebel offensive lineman Jayden Williams during an on-field brawl in the Texas Bowl Wednesday night. Additionally, both denied Kevin’s claim that Moore may have used a racial slur during the same altercation. “I cannot say strongly enough that these accusations are false,” Moore said in a statement Thursday. “It is disappointing that my final game as a student-athlete was overshadowed by the false accusations made last night. Since arriving at…

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