Texas promotes Rodney Terry: Longhorns elevate interim coach to full-time position after Elite Eight run

Texas has finalized a take care of Rodney Terry to advertise its interim coach to the full-time position after he guided the Longhorns to the Elite Eight of the 2023 NCAA Match. This system introduced the transfer Monday night with Terry agreeing to a five-year, $15.3 million contract, sources inform CBS Sports activities’ Matt Norlander.

Terry, who took over the workforce after ex-coach Chris Beard was fired midseason, coached the Longhorns to a Large 12 Match title and had Texas on the doorstep of its second-ever Closing 4 earlier than the Longhorns have been eradicated by Miami within the Midwest Regional last on Sunday. He will probably be formally launched on Tuesday in a press convention on the College of Texas at 11 a.m.

Terry, 55, beforehand coached Fresno State for seven seasons and UTEP for 3 earlier than becoming a member of Beard’s workers for the 2021-22 season. Texas went 22-7 throughout his interim stint after he was elevated to the place following Beard’s arrest for alleged felony assault in December. Texas fired Beard on Jan. 5, though expenses in opposition to him weren’t in the end pursued.

By selling Terry, Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte is popping to somebody with deep ties to the state who earned the respect of the gamers on the present roster throughout a difficult season. Terry is from the Houston suburbs and was an assistant at Texas below Rick Barnes from 2002-11, which encompassed this system’s solely Closing 4 run.

Texas has one season left within the Large 12 earlier than this system joins the SEC starting within the 2024-25 season. The Longhorns’ No. 2 seed within the NCAA Match this season was its greatest since 2008, and its event run was additionally its deepest since 2008.