Burnt Orange Nation · Aug 26, 2020
Reports: Texas expected to hire SMU assistant KT Turner
SMU assistant K.T. Turner (far right) Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images For exactly five months, Texas Longhorns head coach Shaka Smart has conducted a search to find the replacement for assistant Luke Yaklich, who returned to Illinois to become the head coach of the Illinois-Chicago Flames.
Since then, there hasn’t been a lot of information about Smart’s coaching search, but reports did emerge this week that Smart is targeting SMU assistant KT Turner to replace Yaklich and expects to hire the Oklahoma native after increasing the original offer.