{"id":265960,"date":"2023-03-07T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T07:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265960"},"modified":"2023-03-08T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:30:40","slug":"texas-tech-suspends-head-basketball-coach-for-quoting-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265960","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Suspends Head Basketball Coach For Quoting The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jordan Boyd &#8212; The Federalist March 6, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Less than one month after Texas Tech University was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/blogs\/press_release\/victory-for-academic-freedom-texas-tech-ditches-diversity-statements\">busted<\/a> for using race-based ideology as a litmus test for hiring candidates in the school\u2019s biology department, the four-year university suspended head men\u2019s basketball coach Mark Adams for quoting the Bible to a student-athlete.<\/p>\n<p>TTU Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt suspended Adams on Sunday after learning that the coach encouraged one of his basketball players \u201cto be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment, according to the university, was \u201cinappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive\u201d and deserved a formal written reprimand from Hocutt, suspension, and an investigation into Adams\u2019 previous \u201cinteractions with his players and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TTU claimed that when confronted with offense over the comments, Adams \u201cimmediately addressed this with the team and apologized.\u201d Adams, however, said that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my coaches said it bothered the player,\u201d Adams told <a href=\"https:\/\/watchstadium.com\/texas-tech-coach-mark-adams-suspended-pending-investigation-03-05-2023\/\">Stadium<\/a>. \u201cI explained to them. I didn\u2019t apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversial exchange, Adams said, was supposed to be \u201ca private conversation about coaching and when you have a job, and being coachable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that in the Bible that Jesus talks about how we all have bosses, and we all are servants,\u201d Adams added. \u201cI was quoting the Bible about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TTU first hired Adams as head coach in April of 2021 to replace Chris Beard. In Adams\u2019 first year leading the team, he secured the most wins, 27, of any first-year head coach in TTU basketball history. He also led the Red Raiders to the Big 12 finals and the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019 impressive debut record, however, quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/wreckemred.com\/2023\/01\/18\/texas-tech-basketball-important-question-must-ask-mark-adams\/\">dwindled<\/a> earlier this year. One week before the 2023 NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament, TTU\u2019s men\u2019s team is only 5-13 in the Big 12 and 16-15 overall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/06\/texas-tech-suspends-head-basketball-coach-for-quoting-the-bible\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comment, according to the university, was \u201cinappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":265962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265963,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265960\/revisions\/265963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}