Abilene played some of the smartest ball I've seen in the last couple of minutes.  

This just continues to be among the more ridiculous discussions on a board devoted to GW Basketball.  If you were hell-bent to discredit Shaka's tenure at Texas, I'm not really sure it makes much sense to pick on his most successful year yet.  Not only was the team ranked in or around the top 10 programs in the country for most of the season, but Texas won its first-ever Big 12 Championship.  Not even the great Rick Barnes was able to pull that off.  



If you follow the sport at all, you would know that the Abilene Christian win was an upset but not a huge one.  They play very much along the lines of how Shaka's VCU teams played, ironically.  Their defensive metrics are through the roof.  Plus, just like Loyola's win over the great Brad Underwood, you have the little David with little pressure against the big state-school Goliath with a ton of pressure.  Am not making excuses for Texas or Illinois except to say that this happens in the sport frequently.  GW and Maryland split 10 meetings in the BB&T but I don't think anyone would say that GW was as successful a program as Maryland over the majority of these years.

Speaking of Barnes, he too did not fare very well, losing to 12th seed Oregon State.  Nevertheless, nobody should be pointing a finger at Rick Barnes, Brad Underwood or Shaka Smart and perceive any to be a lousy coach.  The latter two won conference championships in the two strongest conferences in the sport this season.  

It's just a troll with an agenda for some unbeknownst reason.  Top 10 virtually all year, Big 12 Championship (which naturally goes unmentioned by the troll), and THIS is a year you feel it's appropriate throwing stones?  Just the work of someone with a misguided agenda.

Dumb and dumber at it again.
GW can only pray to get a coach like Shaka. If Texas is "dumb" enough to buy him out (like Indiana did with Archie) someone else will be there ready to scoop him up.