http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9121347/texas-tech-red-raiders-hire-tubby-smith-source

Tubby Smith has agreed to terms to become the next coach at Texas Tech, a source confirmed to ESPN.com's Jason King Monday.

The Associated Press had earlier reported that the school had agreed to terms Monday with Smith on a contract.

The school wouldn't confirm an agreement, releasing a statement that read: "There is currently not an agreement in place between Texas Tech and Tubby Smith to be the basketball coach."

Smith will take over for interim coach Chris Walker, who went 11-20 this season and just 3-15 in Big 12 play. The program is still reeling from Billy Gillispie's volatile one-year tenure, which ended when he resigned in September.

Like Knight and Day
Texas Tech is hoping Tubby Smith can do something that hasn't been done since Bob Knight retired: make the NCAA tournament. Knight won 20 games in four of his six full seasons. The Red Raiders have none since.The much-maligned Smith had five 20-win seasons in six years.

Coach W-L NCAAs
Bob Knight at TT 138-92 4
6 yrs since at TT 69-104 0
Tubby Smith at MN 124-81 3
6 yrs previous at MN 95-93 0
Smith was fired by Minnesota last week after six seasons. He led them to three NCAA tournaments and this season delivered the program's first tourney win -- the 11th-seeded Golden Gophers beat sixth-seeded UCLA -- since 1997. He went 124-81 (.610), winning 20 games five times. But he never finished higher than sixth in the Big Ten, going just 46-62 in conference play, prompting Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague to oust him.

He will become the fourth person to lead Texas Tech in as many seasons.

Texas Tech fans had pinned their basketball hopes on Gillispie after he'd turned around two other flagging programs in the state -- UTEP and Texas A&M -- and they hoped he would do the same for the Red Raiders. But he more resembled the guy who was fired at Kentucky, a hard-driving coach who had a difficult time connecting with the players he inherited.

Several complained to the administration about how Gillispie treated them, there were some secondary NCAA violations for exceeding practice times and it all led to the Red Raiders finishing 8-23 and winning just one Big 12 game in 2011-12 -- the program's worst season since 1990-91.

Gillispie stepped down in September, citing health reasons. Walker, an assistant at several schools for 17 years, led Texas Tech to an improved season, but the Houston native's lack of experience as a head coach likely worked against him.

Smith won a national title and five Southeastern Conference championships with Kentucky before the demanding Wildcats faithful pushed him to leave for Minnesota in 2007. Smith, who was replaced at Kentucky by Gillispie, also has taken Tulsa and Georgia to the round of 16, establishing a reputation as a program builder who could succeed in places that historically haven't been on the college basketball map.

Now he'll try to do it one more time, at Texas Tech.

Information from ESPN.com's Jason King and The Associated Press was used in this report.

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he should have turned that down.

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and in a region of the country where he's already program-built while at Tulsa.

He's coming in after Pat Knight failed & Billy Gillepsie took TNT to the place, so he'll be a perfectly calming influence in guiding them out of the muck in the Big-12.

is up to...that last sentence is a killer, lol...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Knight#Lamar
Lamar
On April 5, 2011, Lamar University hired Pat Knight as head coach. On February 23, 2012 during a post-game press conference which followed a 62-52 loss to Stephen F. Austin State University, Knight berated his team's seniors saying that, in his opinion, they are the worst group of seniors he's ever coached. The Lamar squad went on to win the final 3 games of the season and the Southland Conference East Division Championship. Though Knight never apologized for his comments, he said that he was proud of the way his seniors responded after the criticism. "They're the ones that deserve the credit," coach Pat Knight said. Knight led Lamar to its first 20 win season since 1988 and a 3rd place finish in conference. Lamar would go on to win the Southland Conference Tournament and earn their first NCAA appearance since the year 2000. Lamar qualified to play one of the "First Four" opening round games; but, lost to Vermont. In a post game interview, Knight tearfully complimented his seniors, calling them the "under-the-bus-gang," referring to his earlier criticism of them.
The following season, after those seniors graduated, Knight led Lamar to a 3-28 season in 2012-13. With a winning percentage below .100, this was one of the worst seasons in the history of college basketball.

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>The following season, after those seniors graduated, Knight
>led Lamar to a 3-28 season in 2012-13. With a winning
>percentage below .100, this was one of the worst seasons in
>the history of college basketball.
>
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in the Big 12 in hoops.

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