University of Texas Arlington Athletics

Longtime SMU staff member Sean Stout, who spent this past season with the San Antonio Spurs, has been reunited with KT Turner as an assistant coach on the UT Arlington men’s basketball staff. Stout began his time with UTA in April of 2023.
 
Stout, 35, served as an Operations Assistant in the front office of the five-time NBA Champion Spurs in 2022-23, and that came on the heels of 10 seasons at SMU. Stout and Turner were both on staff with the Mustangs during Turner’s entire tenure in Dallas from 2013-20.
 
During his final six years with SMU (2016-22), Stout served as the Director of Operations. He also spent time as the Mustangs’ Director of Recruiting (2015-16) and Video Coordinator (2013-15). Stout began his tenure with SMU as an intern in 2012-13 after two seasons (2010-12) as the Director of Operations at Coastal Carolina.
 
Following the 2016-17 season – his first as SMU’s Director of Operations – Stout was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Under Armour 30-Under-30 list, which recognizes up-and-coming coaches in men’s college basketball.
 
Prior to Coastal Carolina, Stout was a four-year student manager (2006-10) for Hall-of-Famer Roy Williams at North Carolina. In his final season at UNC, he was the head manager supervising a staff of six managers.
 
In Stout’s decade at SMU, the Mustangs won the American Athletic Conference regular-season championship twice (2014-15, 2016-17), the AAC Tournament on two occasions (2015, 2017) and made the NCAA tournament both of those campaigns. SMU also played in the NIT three times (2014, 2021, 2022), reaching the title game in 2014.
 
The Mustangs garnered four AAC Player of the Year honors during Stout’s time on staff, and had three AAC Sixth Man of the Year awards in that same timeframe. Stout helped develop five NBA players while with SMU, and several more who went on to professional playing careers around the world.
 
SMU joined the AAC in 2013-14, and in those nine seasons with Stout on staff the Mustangs had a league-high 19 all-conference selections. The program was ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 in four of the seasons, climbing as high as #8. The Mustangs were ranked or received votes in the AP Top 25 in eight of those nine years.
 
Stout has also worked as a coach or counselor at several basketball camps, including a four-time counselor at the Roy Williams Basketball Camp (2006-09) and a coach at the Jim Calhoun Basketball Camp (2008). He was also a coach at the 2007 YUBAC Basketball Camp in Kopaonik, Serbia; a counselor at the 2005 Nike All-Asia Basketball Camp in Beijing, China; and a video coordinator at the 2006 Nike Hoop Summit in Memphis.
 
He graduated from North Carolina in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science with a concentration in sport administration. He also earned a minor in history. He completed the Master of Liberal Studies program at SMU in December of 2014.