re: UTex has fired Beard

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After reading this article, I wonder if this might be a bit premature. I think I would have waited until the hearing on 1/18 before making a determination.

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It was not premature. The criminal proceedings, and Beard's actual guilt or innocence, has nothing to do with this. He signed a contract with a morality clause. Any conduct that is unbecoming to the university means he can be fired. Catching a Felony Strangulation arrest, and biting your fiancee during a fight, resulting in pictures of you in prison clothes before a judge, is conduct unbecoming.

Beard and this chick had a volatile relationship going back to his time in Lubbock. He should have dumped her when he got his dream-job. He screwed up.