Hey Longhorns, why did Chaka Smart not work at Texas?

The biggest talking point here is that he didn’t establish the type of play that he put on the floor at VCU, and also has done elsewhere since his departure at Texas. Havoc was not really seen here. Nobody really knows why. It’s as if the coach we hired just changed the way he coached while he was here. He always stated his recruits here were better and thus changed the way he game planned and ran the team. I’ll never really understand it.

From what I’ve been told his lack of success was attributed to the particular players he was told to recruit. They were NBA talent blue chip dudes but not necessarily his “system” players.
He might also be a douchebag

Similar to Anthony Grant at Alabama. He won at VCU, and now he's winning again at Dayton. But for whatever reason he struggled here.

It’s the biggest head scratcher. Smart is an excellent coach with a winning style.

As another poster said he just didn’t recruit for that style at Texas and didn’t implement it.

Chris Beard was the much bigger blow of coaching losses but that of course was on him.

a question we have all asked. He was simply awful in the tourney. Off the top of my head I can't recall him winning a single game in the tourney. For Aggies this is, of course, unrealistic expectations. For programs that like to win, it's not.
I wish him well though he's a good guy.

At the end of the day it's just basketball. I know some care about it but outside the tourney I don't watch a single game all year.
....don't get me started on the baseball program, however.

Shaka Smart got to Austin and decided to start not doing literally every single thing that made him successful at VCU and ran a completely different system.

No one has won anything in texass for 20 years