Chris Ogden

The process of the coaching staff surrounding the newly hired Texas basketball head coach Chris Beard has already started to form together after he was hired away from the Texas Tech Red Raiders on the morning of April 1. It was not April Fool’s Day on the Forty Acres when the news arrived that the former Texas Tech head coach Beard was taking over in the same role with Texas.

The Texas Longhorns haven’t officially announced Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Chris Beard as the replacement for Shaka Smart yet, but Beard’s staff is already coming together — according to a report from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, UT-Arlington Mavericks head coach Chris Ogden will serve as an assistant to Beard.

New Texas basketball head coach Chris Beard is wasting no time assembling his new coaching staff. UT-Arlington head coach Chris Ogden is reportedly expected to join Beard’s staff in Austin, the first assistant hire to be since the news dropped that Beard was hired Thursday morning. Ogden was a captain on Texas’ 2003 Final Four team and served as a Texas assistant from 2008-15 under former head coach Rick Barnes. He was also one of Beard’s top assistants at Texas Tech.

Chris Ogden, men’s basketball head coach, turned in his resignation Thursday, Athletics director Jim Baker said in an email. Ogden has accepted a new role as assistant coach for the men’s basketball team at his alma mater, UT-Austin. He played at UT-Austin from 1999 to 2003 and reached the Final...