Yahoo Sports · Mar 26, 2021
After Shaka Smart's exit, can Texas finally get it right?
There is no greater sleeping giant in all of college basketball than the University of Texas — a program so ripe with potential that it consistently attracts high-quality dreamers … who eventually leave vexed and frustrated.
It’s been that way for, what, 70 years?
For a long time, its best attribute was hiring Abe Lemons, whose actual name was just A.E. Lemons, two initials that stood for nothing so he inserted the "b". A product of the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Great Depression, he used to joke he was born so poor he couldn’t afford a name. Funny, funny guy … who went to just one NCAA tournament in six seasons.