Christopher Michael Beard professionally known as “Chris Beard” is an American basketball coach who is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Texas at Austin.
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He previously coached Texas Tech, Little Rock, Angelo State, and McMurry. Beard completed his high school education at McCullough High School in The Woodlands, Texas.
Beard is a 1995 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology. He then received a Master of Education from Abilene Christian University where he served as a graduate assistant in 1998.
After serving as a student manager and student assistant at the University of Texas for Tom Penders and a graduate assistant at Incarnate Word and Abilene Christian, Beard was an assistant coach at North Texas from 1997–1999.
In 2000, he was hired as the head coach at Seminole State College. In his one year there he went 25–6 and finished ranked 14th in the country.
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Beard was hired as head coach at Lamar State College–Port Arthur on March 8, 2012, but resigned six days later for the same position at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas where he spent one season.
On March 27, 2016, Beard accepted the head coaching job at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
When the Texas Tech head coaching job was made vacant by Tubby Smith’s departure to Memphis, Beard took the Texas Tech job on April 15, 2016.
At the end of the 2019 season, Beard earned Big 12 coach of the year honors as he led Texas Tech to a 26–5 regular season record, second only to Tech’s 30–1 record in 1995–96.
Beard was arrested on a third-degree felony charge of assault against a family member for strangulation on Monday, December 12, 2022.
How much did Texas pay Chris Beard?
Chris Beard signed a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $5 million with Texas.
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