Less than a month after Chris Beard’s arrest on felony assault charges, Texas announced Thursday it has fired its men’s basketball coach. Beard was indefinitely suspended following the domestic violence charge, which occurred midway through his second season with the Longhorns, who currently sit at No. 6 in the AP poll. The move completes a precipitous fall from grace for Beard, one of the industry’s fastest risers in the last decade from non–Division I coach to Texas’s $5 million man.
It also opens one of the nation’s most well-resourced jobs, at a place that can command some of the sport’s biggest names thanks to its financial might—despite the fact that the program last reached the NCAA tournament’s second weekend in 2008. Here’s a look at who could be in the mix for the Longhorns’ job this time around.
