Smith worked as a graduate assistant coach at
Memphis State University in the 1983–1984 season for coach
Dana Kirk. Smith then coached boys at
Bartlett High School in
Bartlett, Tennessee for 19 years, where his teams posted a 440–190 record and won the class AAA state championship in 2001. He then moved to
Nashville, Tennessee, taking the job of Director of Basketball Operations at
Belmont University in November 2003. From 2004 to 2008 he was an assistant coach at
Lipscomb University. In 2008 he took the position coaching the girls basketball team at
Ensworth School. In five years at Ensworth, the teams won two state championships and finished as runners-up twice. In 2013 he took the boys coaching job at
Brentwood Academy, where his teams won the state championship in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. In 2019 he was named to the
TSSAA Hall of fame. Smith became only the third coach in TSSAA history to win four consecutive state titles. In 2017 he was named Tennessee high school basketball coach of the year by USA Today. In 2018 he was named 2018 boys basketball coach of the year by the
Tennessean. ==Other==