Sean Stout completed his tenth season (2021-22) at SMU, his sixth as Director of Operations. He was the Director of Recruiting (2015-16) after serving two seasons as the Video Coordinator (2013-15). He started as an intern at SMU in 2012-13 after two seasons (2010-12) as the Director of Basketball Operations at Coastal Carolina.
In his 10 seasons at SMU, the Mustangs won The American regular season twice (2014-15, 2016-17), the AAC Tournament twice (2015, 2017) and made the NCAA tournament two times (2015, 2017). SMU also reached the NIT three times (2014, 2021, 2022), reaching the title game in 2014. SMU has also won the 2015-16 Las Vegas Classic and the 2019-20 Southwestern Showdown. The Mustangs garnered four American Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors (Nic Moore 2014-15, 2015-16; Semi Ojeleye in 2016-17, Kendric Davis in 2021-22) and three AAC Sixth Man of the Year awards (Markus Kennedy 2014-15, 2015-16; Ben Emelogu II 2016-17). In the nine seasons in The American, SMU has 19 All-AAC selections, the most in the league. The program has been in the Associated Press Top 25 in four of the seasons, being ranked as high as No. 8. The Mustangs were ranked or received votes in the AP Top 25 in eight of the last nine years. The Mustangs have had five players reach the NBA (Semi Ojeleye, Sterling Brown, Feron Hunt, Shake Milton, Ben Moore), with three selected in the NBA Draft (Semi Ojeleye, Sterling Brown in 2017; Shake Milton in 2018). Several others have had professional playing careers throughout the world, including Ben Emelogu II, Isiaha Mike, Nic Moore, Markus Kennedy, Yanick Moreira, Nick Russell and Jordan Tolbert.
Following the 2016-17 season, Stout was named to the 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 Coach Roy Williams at North Carolina. In his final season at UNC, he was the head manager, supervising a staff of six managers.
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 2014.
