Texas fired men’s basketball coach Chris Beard for cause Thursday, but not before offering him a chance to make the call himself.
That was made public by the school Thursday afternoon when it released a letter sent to Beard’s attorney, Perry Minton, per Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News. In the letter, the school implied that Beard expected to return to his position if he was not convicted on a felony assault charge related to a Dec. 12 incident with his fiancé.
The school said in the letter that such an assumption on the part of Beard shows that he “does not understand the significance of the behavior he knows he engaged in.”
