Texas Tech officials are in Las Vegas to talk to Chris Beard about their sudden vacant head coaching job.
Texas Tech has zeroed in on its prime candidate to replace Tubby Smith as their next head basketball coach and that is UNLV's Chris Beard. There have been reports and rumors of interest about Beard and the Red Raiders, and according to Mark Anderson of the Las Vegas Review-Journal Texas Tech officials are in town to speak with Beard.
Anderson provides our first plane tracking mention of this coaching search with a private plane arriving at Henderson Executive Airport at 7:01 p.