Tech coach Adams’ comment ‘racially insensitive’

12:56 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Personnel Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of

University of Delaware.Texas Tech has actually suspended males’s basketball coach Mark Adams for what the school

“According to the school, Adams was motivating a player to be more receptive to coaching and “referenced Bible verses about workers, instructors, moms and dads, and slaves serving

their masters.”Adams said sorry to the group after he discovered the player was upset about the use of the Bible verse, a source told ESPN.Athletic director Kirby Hocutt was made aware of the occurrence. He provided Adams a written reprimand but then decided to suspend the coach to conduct a”more thorough inquiry of Adams’interactions with his players and staff.”Texas Tech finished its regular season with a home loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday, the Red Raiders’third straight loss. After a 10-2 start, Texas Tech went 5-13 in Huge 12 play and is 16-15 general. The Red Raiders face West Virginia in the first round of the Huge 12 competition Wednesday.Adams was already under pressure from prominent individuals around the program because of Texas Tech’s frustrating season, sources informed ESPN. He signed a contract extension last spring that goes through the 2026-27 season and would pay him$

15.5 million over 5 years.If Adams were to be fired without cause, he would be owed 60 %of what is remaining on his contract: more than $7 million.Adams, 66, finished from Texas Tech in 1979 and has been a coach with the Red Raiders since 2016, first as an assistant under Chris Beard and the previous two seasons as Beard’s replacement. He likewise spent two seasons as the program’s director of basketball operations under Tubby Smith from 2013

to 2015. Adams has been a long time college coach in Texas prior to signing up with the Texas Tech staff, making stops at five schools over 30 years.