The architect of Texas Tech's now-famous no-middle defense, Mark Adams helped build up the program he now runs mshap2 looks at the 65-year-old's rise to his dream job in his home state
Finally holding the job he coveted for decades, the 65-year-old will face the man he replaced Tuesday when Chris Beard returns to Lubbock.Make your way out to west Texas, through the plains and the wind farms, hours from Dallas and Austin, and you’ll eventually hit what they call the Hub City. The connective tissue of numerous farming communities, Lubbock stands among the sleepier towns in the Big 12. But come game days at United Supermarkets Arena, the city is nothing of the sort.
It’s safe to say Adams has left the farm, though he hasn’t ventured too far from the region he calls home. Save for a stint as an assistant at Arkansas–Little Rock in 2015 and ’16, Adams’s entire coaching career is confined to the Lone Star State. He got his first taste of coaching as a student assistant for Texas Tech coach Gerald Myers in the late 1970s, and Adams began his professional career at Clarendon College—two hours north of Lubbock and just an hour west of the Oklahoma border—in ’81.
hired Adams as an assistant at Arkansas–Little Rock in 2015, and after the team reached the second round of the NCAA tournament in ’16, the duo moved to the Big 12 as Beard replaced Tubby Smith in Lubbock. Adams didn’t have the head job just yet, but he was no bystander in Texas Tech’s rise up the collegiate ranks.
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