Shaka Smart's Strategy: How Texas's second-year coach is changing the way he recruits—and wins
Posted Jun 18, 2016
Though he was coming off an enormously successful six-year tenure at VCU, highlighted by an unlikely trip to the 2011 Final Four, Shaka Smart had yet to prove he could recruit well enough to keep Texas competitive in the Big 12. That question was answered—in the short term, anyway—when Jarrett Allen agreed to come on board earlier this month.
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