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After just his second full season as the University of Texas men’s basketball head coach, Rodney Terry was reportedly fired Sunday with three full seasons left on his contract.
The decision by athletic director Chris Del Conte came four days after the Longhorns ended a disappointing season with an 86-80 loss to Xavier in a First Four game March 19 in Dayton, Ohio. ESPN and CBS reporters were the first with the news, citing unnamed sources. The American-Statesman has reached out to the university for confirmation but has not immediately heard back.
GOLDEN: Rodney Terry may be fired after Texas basketball's 2nd half collapse. Here's why
Texas finished the 2024-25 campaign with a 19-16 record, its worst mark since the 2016-17 team went 11-22 in a second year under Shaka Smart. But more importantly — for a highly successful Texas athletic program that values optics almost as much as wins — Terry, to some, seemed to be steering a program in the wrong direction.
After he took over for the program on an interim basis following the suspension and then firing of Chris Beard in January 2023, Terry led the Longhorns to a 22-8 record, a Big 12 tournament championship and a spot in the Elite Eight (the longest such run for Texas since the 2005-06 season). Texas went 21-13 in 2023-24 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. This year, the Longhorns didn’t receive an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time since the 2018-19 season. The 2020 NCAA Tournament was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Texas tied for the third-worst record in the SEC, which qualified an record 14 teams for the NCAA Tournament.
Terry was hired as the permanent head coach after the 2022-23 season on a five-year, $15.3 million contract with a buyout of $7.2 million in March 2023. That buyout is now approximately $5.8 million, a price that falls at the feet of Del Conte and the Texas basketball boosters.
Terry, who turns 57 this month, spent 13 seasons coaching the Longhorns dating back to his days as an assistant to Rick Barnes in the 2000s. Combined with stints at Fresno State and UTEP, his overall head-coaching record is 225-193, including a 62-37 record at Texas.
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The decision by athletic director Chris Del Conte came four days after the Longhorns ended a disappointing season with an 86-80 loss to Xavier in a First Four game March 19 in Dayton, Ohio. ESPN and CBS reporters were the first with the news, citing unnamed sources. The American-Statesman has reached out to the university for confirmation but has not immediately heard back.
GOLDEN: Rodney Terry may be fired after Texas basketball's 2nd half collapse. Here's why
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Texas finished the 2024-25 campaign with a 19-16 record, its worst mark since the 2016-17 team went 11-22 in a second year under Shaka Smart. But more importantly — for a highly successful Texas athletic program that values optics almost as much as wins — Terry, to some, seemed to be steering a program in the wrong direction.
After he took over for the program on an interim basis following the suspension and then firing of Chris Beard in January 2023, Terry led the Longhorns to a 22-8 record, a Big 12 tournament championship and a spot in the Elite Eight (the longest such run for Texas since the 2005-06 season). Texas went 21-13 in 2023-24 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. This year, the Longhorns didn’t receive an NCAA Tournament bid for the first time since the 2018-19 season. The 2020 NCAA Tournament was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Texas tied for the third-worst record in the SEC, which qualified an record 14 teams for the NCAA Tournament.
Terry was hired as the permanent head coach after the 2022-23 season on a five-year, $15.3 million contract with a buyout of $7.2 million in March 2023. That buyout is now approximately $5.8 million, a price that falls at the feet of Del Conte and the Texas basketball boosters.
Terry, who turns 57 this month, spent 13 seasons coaching the Longhorns dating back to his days as an assistant to Rick Barnes in the 2000s. Combined with stints at Fresno State and UTEP, his overall head-coaching record is 225-193, including a 62-37 record at Texas.
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This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Rodney Terry fired as Texas head coach, per ESPN
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