Jeremy Pope and Sean Stout have joined KT Turner’s new staff as assistant basketball coaches at UT Arlington. Their bio’s are below:
With previous coaching stops at the Division-I level, prep schools both in the United States and internationally, the AAU circuit and as part of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), Jeremy Pope has been hired by KT Turner as an assistant coach for the UT Arlington men’s basketball team.
Pope, 32, joins the Mavericks after spending the previous two seasons (2021-23) as an assistant coach with the University of Portland in the always-competitive West Coast Conference (WCC).
“Jeremy is an up-and-coming coach who has already started to – and will continue to – make a name for himself and our program in the process,” stated head coach Turner. “He’s a grinder who possesses a never-quit attitude who will build terrific relationships with our players both on and off the court. Jeremy also has an expansive rolodex of contacts across the country which will be extremely beneficial to our program’s growth.”
With Portland, Pope helped the Pilots to 19 wins in 2021-22, matching the program’s 4th-most wins since it joined the D-I ranks in 1958. Additionally, he assisted in guiding Portland to its first postseason victory at the NCAA level when the Pilots defeated New Orleans in The Basketball Classic, a successor to the CIT (CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament).
This past season, Pope was on staff when Portland defeated three-time national champion Villanova by double figures, led then-#1 North Carolina for most of the 2nd half in a narrow loss and dropped a controversial one-point contest against a Michigan State team that reached the Sweet Sixteen.
Prior to joining the Pilots, Pope served as an assistant coach at Arizona Compass Prep (AZCP), one of the elite basketball prep schools in the nation. Pope was an assistant coach during the 2020-21 season and worked with a team that graduated six players who moved on to D-I schools.
AZCP went undefeated in league play, won a Grind Session Championship and qualified for the 2021 Geico High School Nationals as the overall No. 4 seed. The team dropped a 51-49 decision to eventual national champion Montverde Academy in the semifinals to finish the year with a 30-2 record. The only two losses came against Montverde, with the first an overtime defeat on the road.
Prior to his stop in Arizona, Pope spent two seasons (2018-20) at Orangeville Prep in Ontario, Canada, as an assistant coach. Considered the top prep program in the country about an hour from Toronto, Orangeville graduated seven seniors who reached the D-I ranks during Pope’s time on staff, went undefeated in all competitions and won the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association Championship. Notable alumni from Orangeville include current NBA players Jamal Murray, Luguentz Dort and Thon Maker.
Pope also was an assistant coach for the NIKE Bounce Basketball Clubs U-17 and U-16 EYBL teams during his tenure in Canada.
In the summer of 2021, Pope was the head coach of Boeheim’s Army in the The Basketball Tournament (TBT), which the Syracuse-backed team won. TBT features 64 teams of top professional, college alumni and international players competing in a single-elimination 5-on-5 format with a winner-take-all $1 million prize which was evenly split among all team members.
A graduate manager at Washington under head coach Mike Hopkins – a former Syracuse assistant – in 2017, Pope helped with numerous facets of the program, including on-court skill development, scouting, film breakdown, scheduling and student-athlete management. The Huskies finished the 2017-18 season with 21 wins, qualified for the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) and two players from the team played in the NBA.
Pope’s coaching journey began as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, Mayfair High School, in Los Angeles in 2013. He also coached AAU for the Los Angeles Rockfish for two years following his collegiate basketball playing career.
After playing two seasons at Cerritos College, Pope had a brief stop at D-I San Jose State and then concluded his playing career with one year at Biola University.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Cal State, Los Angeles in 2017, and secured a Master of Education in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership and Coaching from Washington in 2018.
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, 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.
“Sean has a vast recruiting network across the country, and his reach stretches internationally as well which will be a tremendous asset for our program,” said Turner of his first announced staff member. “He possesses a wealth of knowledge and is a tireless worker. Sean is already a great coach, but he’s only going to get better and improve our program in the process.”
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.
