His absence from the university circuit lasted barely four months: suspended in mid-December then dismissed from his post at the beginning of January by the management of the University of Texas, Chris Beard is already back.
The university ofole miss (short for Old Mississippi) announced on Monday that she had reached an agreement with the 50-year-old tactician to make him the new coach of the program, starting next season.
” We carefully evaluated our options, and there is no doubt that Chris Beard stood out to us as one of the best “announced in the press release Keith Carter, the boss of the athletic department at Ole Miss. ” And after discussions with all of our applicants, it was clear that he was the right person to trust to guide our program to success.. »
As a reminder, Chris Beard was fired from Texas after his fiancée accused him of domestic violence in mid-December. Immediately arrested by the Austin police, he was quickly released since his fiancée, a few hours after the arrest, assured that he had in fact acted in self-defense, and that she ultimately did not wish to file a complaint against him. The charges against him were then dropped.
On the Oxford campus in Mississippi, the former coach at Texas Tech and Texas, unanimously considered one of the very best in the country, will be responsible for a complex mission: to breathe new positive dynamics into the sports results of the Rebels, stuck in the bottom of the SEC conference standings for a few years (74 wins and 79 losses over the last five seasons).
To achieve this, he will certainly rely on a strong defensive identity, the keystone of his success wherever he has gone (finalist of the “March Madness” in 2019 with Texas Tech, in particular).
