This reminds me of my favorite random Shaka story. I've attended maybe a half dozen soccer games the last few seasons. It feels like every time I go there are basically 50 soccer fans, a bunch of guys on the football team who are dating soccer players, and Shaka with his wife and daughter. Back in 2018 they were playing Texas A&M Corpus Christi in an exhibition game. Shaka and family rolled in a little before halftime. He spent some time chatting up some players that came through to say hello, but as things settled down he locked into the game. Texas was way better and basically kept the entire match on A&M CC's end of the pitch. With maybe 5 or 10 minutes left in the match, A&M CC actually mustered a counter and passed the ball up the sideline. The play happened right in front of where we were sitting (we were roughly the same section, I was several rows behind him), and the A&M CC attacked was egregiously offside, at least 4 or 5 feet, but it wasn't called by the badly out of position assistant referee. It was so egregious I involuntarily yelped, and I'm usually a quiet fan. As the assistant referee passed in front of him, Shaka - using that low barking voice with no eye contact thing coaches do when they work refs without showing them up - said, "you missed that offsides bro". Our protests were almost simultaneous and we looked at each other, both realizing how ridiculous it was to complain about a missed call near the end of a soccer exhibition against a hopelessly over matched team, but nevertheless incredulous at how the call was missed.
I know Shaka isn't very popular on this site (for good reason) and it looks like it isn't going to work out for him and Texas basketball, but he really is a good guy. I will always have a soft spot for the guy who was, that night, just an ordinary engaged fan hanging out with his wife and daughter at a soccer exhibition.