The Rodney Terry era at UTEP is over after three seasons. The Miners head coach took a position at the University of Texas as an assistant coach to work under new head coach Chris Beard, as first reported by 24/7 Sports Chip Brown on Tuesday.
Rumors started to spill late last week on Terry’s move to Texas, but the chatter was hushed over the Easter weekend. The news was released Tuesday.
The dominos started to fall as soon as word of Beard s hiring at Texas went public. On Thursday, UT Arlington head coach Chris Ogden took a job as an assistant coach under Beard. Texas Tech assistant coach Ulric Maligi is joining Beard at Texas too, Pete Thames of Yahoo Sports reported. The rumors that Terry would be leaving UTEP for Austin started to heat up on social media Thursday afternoon, but they cooled off Friday morning. A source close to the situation told 600 ESPN El Paso that Terry met with UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter on Friday for lunch, but no news was made public afte
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