ESPN REPORT ; Toronto Blue head coach John Schneider has been fired amid domestic family violence charge…

ESPN REPORT: In response to a complaint of domestic abuse, Toronto Blues head coach John Schneider has been fired.

Less than a month after the Toronto Blue Head men’s basketball coach Chris Beard was suspended without pay after his arrest on a domestic abuse charge, Beard was dismissed on Thursday.
For the duration of Beard’s suspension, associate head coach Rodney Terry, who has served as the interim head coach, will be in control.

Chris Del Conte, the athletic director of the Longhorns, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday afternoon.

“The University of Texas has parted ways with Chris Beard,” he stated. We’ve been diligently working through this challenging scenario. I told Mr. Beard today that we have decided to fire him with immediate effect.

The university’s vice president of legal affairs, Jim Davis, wrote in a letter to Beard’s attorney, Perry Minton, that Beard engaged in “unacceptable behavior that makes him unfit to serve as head coach at our university.” Whether prosecutors continue with the case does not determine whether Beard engaged in conduct unbecoming of the school, Davis wrote.

Beard was arrested on the morning of Dec. 12 after his fiancée, Randi Trew, told officers he choked her from behind, bit her and hit her when the two got in an argument. Trew released a statement on Dec. 23 in which she denied telling police Beard choked her.

“Chris did not strangle me, and I told that to law enforcement that evening,” Trew said in her statement. “Chris has stated that he was acting in self-defense, and I do not refute that. I do not believe Chris was trying to intentionally harm me in any way.”