Corey Williams named interim Texas Tech males’s basketball coach following suspension of Mark Adams
Lower than two years on the helm of his alma mater, Mark Adams is not the Texas Tech males’s basketball coach in the meanwhile.
On Monday, Tech introduced assistant Corey Williams as interim head coach for this week’s Large 12 Convention Event.
Adams, who was suspended Sunday “in relation to the usage of an inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive remark final week,” in response to a Texas Tech information launch, may see his tenure with the Pink Raiders finish with a 43-25 total file that included an look within the Candy 16 of final 12 months’s NCAA Event.
“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,” in response to the Texas Tech launch. Adams instantly addressed the incident with the staff and apologized.
Based on the assertion, Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt was made conscious of an incident in reference to a training session between Adams and a member of the lads’s basketball staff. Hocutt met with gamers individually Sunday, a Texas Tech official confirmed to the Avalanche-Journal.
Hocutt addressed the matter with Adams, 66, issued a written reprimand and made the choice to droop him Sunday to conduct a extra thorough investigation of Adams’ interactions along with his gamers and workers.
Adams’ potential final recreation of file was a 71-68 loss Saturday to Oklahoma State within the Large 12 regular-season finale for each squads. Texas Tech began Large 12 play with an 0-8 mark earlier than ending 5-5 in its final 10 video games. The Pink Raiders misplaced eight convention video games by six factors or fewer this season, together with the three-point defeat to OSU final weekend.
The loss to the Cowboys eradicated any at-large shot for Texas Tech, guaranteeing the one likelihood on the NCAA Event for the Pink Raiders would imply operating the desk on the Large 12 Event and incomes the automated berth.
Texas Tech concluded the common season 16-15 total, together with a 5-13 mark that put them in a tie for ninth place within the Large 12. The convention event begins Wednesday on the T-Cell Heart in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. Texas Tech takes on West Virginia at 6 p.m. Wednesday within the first recreation of the event.
Final April after Texas Tech ended its season within the Candy 16, the Brownfield native obtained a contract extension. He is now on a five-year, $15.5 million contract that runs by way of the 2026-27 season. It represented a 55% improve to the unique deal he signed.
With annual base salaries of $300,000 plus proper charges, Adams’ whole compensation is at $3 million for this season and will increase by $50,000 yearly — to $3.05 million in 2023-24, $3.1 million in 2024-25, $3.15 million in 2025-26 and $3.2 million in 2026-27.
The deal contains buy-outs for both sides. To fireside Adams with out trigger, Tech would owe him 60% of the remaining contract worth. That might be offset ought to he have future earnings elsewhere.
After he changed Chris Beard in April 2021, Adams agreed to a five-year, $10-million greenback deal, plus incentives. His annual pay underneath that contract was scheduled to be $1.9 million within the first 12 months, $1.95 million within the second, $2 million within the third, $2.05 million within the fourth and $2.1 million within the fifth.
