Chris Beard, who officially secured the head-coaching job at UNLV less than a week ago, has been officially contacted by Texas Tech and will meet with the Red Raiders on Thursday night in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN.
Tubby Smith left as Texas Tech's head coach to accept the job at Memphis on Thursday morning.
Sources told ESPN that Beard is intrigued largely because of his background at the school and also because he has three daughters who live two hours from Lubbock.
Beard was an assistant coach at Texas Tech for 10 seasons, under Bob Knight and Pat Knight.